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Alessando Scarlatti
Important Italian composer and teacher in Naples -
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Francois Couperin
Composer in Vienna and diplomat in Italy -
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Antonio Vivaldi
Italian composer; laid foundations for late Baroque instrumental music -
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Georg Philipp Telemann
The most prolific German composer of his day; more popular than J.S. Bach during Baroque -
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
French composer and theorist; known first as theorist -
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Considered the Baroque master; master of counterpoint and of the most revered composers today -
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Georg Friedrich Handel
German musician and inventor of English oratorio; most respected by Beethoven -
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Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard composer and virtuoso with a progressive style -
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Johann Joachim Quantz
German composer and flutist; taught Fredrick the Great in Berlin -
War of Spanish Succession begins
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Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Galant Neapolitan composer; his intermezzo, "La serva padrona" sparked the war of the bouffons in Paris in 1752 -
Peace of Utrecht
Treaty that reestablished the balance of power in Europe and helped end the war of Spanish Succession -
Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer
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English Oratorio Developed
Developed by Handel