Baroque String Music Composers

Claudio Monteverdi

Period: May 15, 1567 to Nov 29, 1643

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_MonteverdiItalian.

Heinrich Schutz

Period: Oct 8, 1585 to Nov 6, 1672

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Sch%C3%BCtzGerman

Jean-Baptiste Lully

Period: Nov 28, 1632 to Mar 22, 1687

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_LullyFrench.

Dieterich Buxtehude

Period: Jan 1, 1637 to May 9, 1707

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieterich_BuxtehudeDanish/German.

René Descartes publishes Meditationes de prima philosophia.

Oct 12, 1641

The book is made up of six meditations, in which Descartes first discards all belief in things which are not absolutely certain, and then tries to establish what can be known for sure. The meditations were written as if he were meditating for 6 days: each meditation refers to the last one as "yesterday".

English Civil War Begins

Oct 12, 1642

H.I.F. Biber

Period: Aug 12, 1644 to May 3, 1704

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Ignaz_Franz_BiberAustrian.

Giovanni Battista Bassani

Period: Jan 1, 1650 to Oct 1, 1716

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_BassaniItalian. Possibly taught Corelli.

English Civil War Ends (Parliament wins)

Oct 12, 1651

Arcangelo Corelli

Period: Feb 17, 1653 to Jan 8, 1713

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcangelo_CorelliItalian (Working in Paris and Germany)

Giuseppe Torelli

Period: Apr 22, 1658 to Feb 8, 1709

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_TorelliItalian.

English Restoration of the Monarchy

Oct 12, 1660

Tomaso Antonio Vitali

Period: Mar 7, 1663 to May 9, 1745

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomaso_Antonio_VitaliItalian.

Second Anglo-Dutch War

Oct 12, 1665

Great Turkish War Begins

Oct 12, 1667

Antonio Vivaldi

Period: Mar 4, 1678 to Jul 28, 1741

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_VivaldiItalian.

Carl Heinrich Biber

Period: Sep 4, 1681 to Nov 19, 1749

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Heinrich_BiberAustrian, son of HIF

Georg Phillip Telemann

Period: Sep 29, 1681 to Sep 29, 1767

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TelemannGerman

Georg Frideric Handel

Period: Feb 23, 1685 to Apr 14, 1759

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HandelGerman, working in England.

J.S. Bach

Period: Mar 31, 1685 to Jul 28, 1750

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_BachGerman.

Johann George Pisendel

Period: Dec 26, 1687 to Nov 25, 1755

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PisendelGerman.

Francesco Veracini

Period: Feb 1, 1690 to Oct 31, 1768

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeraciniItalian.

Giuseppe Tartini

Period: Apr 8, 1692 to Feb 26, 1770

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_TartiniItalian.

Jean-Marie Leclair

Period: May 10, 1697 to Oct 22, 1764

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_LeclairFrench.

Great Turkish War Ends

Oct 12, 1699

War of the Spanish Succession

Period: Oct 12, 1701 to Oct 12, 1714

The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) was fought among several European powers, including a divided Spain, over the feared possible unification of the Kingdoms of Spain and France under one Bourbon monarch.

The world's first copyright legislation, Britain's Statute of Anne, becomes effective

Oct 12, 1710

Pietro Nardini

Period: Apr 12, 1722 to May 7, 1793

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_NardiniItalian.