The Baroque Era (1600-1731)

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  • Period: 1567 to

    Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

    Monteverdi trained in the Renaissance style, also adept at composing "modern" music. He used dissonances in his music (madrigals) for text expression.
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    Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)

    Frescobaldi was one of the finest organist of Early Baroque . He worked at St. Peter's Cathedral, Rome. He greatly influenced Bach.
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    Francesca Caccini (1587-after 1641)

    Caccini was a soprano and the daughter of Giulio Caccini. She was the first woman to compose operas. She was highly praised soprano voice and her ability to play any string instrument well - also the harpsichord.

  • First opera (1597)

    First opera was Dafne which was composed by Giulio Caccini and Jacopo Peri.

  • Early Baroque (1600-1650)

  • First Extant Opera (1600)

    Composed by Giulio Caccini and Jacopo Peri: Euridice.
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    The Thirty Years War (1618-1648)

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    Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)

    Strozzi was born in Venice and died in Padua. Her mother was a servant to Guilio Strozzi who adopted Barbara. She studied under Francesco Cavalli at the Academia degli Unisoni. Published 8 sets of songs -- the first in 1644)

  • The Coronation of Poppea (1642)

    Composed by Monteverdi when he was 75.
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    Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704)

    Biber was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist who lived in Salzburg. He was one of the most important composers for the violin, especially in the instrument's early years. He wrote Catholic sacred music, violin sonatas, and ensemble music.

  • Middle Baroque (1650-1700)

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    Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)

    Corelli was an Italian composer and made clear distinctions between the different types of sonatas; He was the master of the Trio Sonata.
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    Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

    Purcell was a singer, organist, and a composer of instrumental and vocal music. He worked in the court of Charles II when stage plays were again allowed.
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    Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)

    He was the father of composer Domenico Scarlatti and a teacher in Naples; many of his students helped create the new classical style. His death marks a better indicator of the end of the Baroque than does Bach's in 1750.
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    Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (c. 1666-1729)

    Guerre was called “the wonder of our century" (the 17th century: French).
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    François Couperin (1668-1733)

    Couperin was a French composer.

  • Biber: Sonata No. 1 (ca. 1676)

    Composed by Biber and is a mid-baroque violin sonata.
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    Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

    Vivaldi was called the red priest because of his red hair. He was a music director at the Pieta, an orphanage for girls in Venice. He composed many operas, much sacred music, and many instrumental works. He wrote nearly 800 concertos of various types. He is considered the greatest master of the Baroque concerto.
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    George Philip Telemann (1681-1767)

    Telemann was a German composer who composed more than 125 orchestral suites. He helped establish the French-style orchestral suite in Germany.
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    Jean-Joseph Mouret (1682-1738)

    Mouret was one representative composer from his French court: served the son of King Louis XIV. He composed operas, suites, and "grand divertissements." Some of his works have been used for TV commercials and in other media.
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    Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

    Scarlatti served Portuguese and Spanish royal families. .He had a progressive style, aware of his modern flare. He wrote over 500 sonatas for harpsichord, operas, cantatas, and keyboard exercises.
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    G.F. Handel (1685-1759)

    Handel was a German composer living in England writing Italian music.
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    J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

    Bach is undisputedly the greatest master of the fugue. He uses every contrapuntal technique in extremely innovative ways.

  • "When I am Laid in Earth"

    Dido and Aeneas, Act III, Final. Also known as "Dido's Lament"

  • Salem Witch Trials (1692)

  • Late Baroque (1700-1730)

  • Invention of the Piano (1700)

    Invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori.

  • Handel's Water Music (1717)

    Performed for a royal party on the Thames River in London on July 17, 1717 (7/17/1717). It has 22 movements.

  • Le Quattro stagioni (1725)

    Composed by Vivaldi. "The Four Seasons" is a cycle of four violin concertos.

  • Suite de Symphonies (1729)

    Composed by Mouret and was written for trumpets, violins, oboes, timpani, basses, bassoons, and organ: today the work is often performed as a trumpet solo with organ.

  • Cantata No. 140 (1731, BWV 140)

    Composed by J.S. Bach. Based on a chorale (Lutheran hymn) by Philipp Nicolai.

  • Messiah (1742)

    Composed by Handel. It is an English Oratorio in which Handel composed the work in 3 weeks, but "self-borrowed) old arias and cantata numbers to create new choruses and peices.

  • The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080, "Contrapunctus I" (1749)

    Composed by J.S. Bach and was a really cool visual representation of the imitative polyphony.