Timeline Two: The Baroque (1600-1730s) By AubreyPedersen Period: 1567 to 1643 Caudio Monteverdi Period: 1583 to 1643 Girolamo Frescobaldi Period: 1590 to 1730 Baroque Period 1597 1st Opera 1600 1st Extant Opera 1600 Instruments became more important than vocalists Period: 1600 to 1650 Early Baroque Period: 1600 to 1750 violin, cello, harp, Guitar and lute 1607 Jamestown Founded Period: 1619 to 1677 Barbara Strozzi Period: 1627 to 1637 Tocattas/Canzonas/Dance Suites/Variation sets/Canzona/Balletto/Corrente Period: 1643 to 1704 Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber 1650 Mid-Baroque Cantatas Period: 1650 to 1700 Middle Baroque Period: 1653 to 1713 Arcangelo Corelli Period: 1659 to 1695 Henry Purcell Period: 1660 to 1725 Alessandro Scarlatti Period: 1666 to 1729 Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre Period: 1668 to 1733 François Couperin Period: 1678 to 1741 Antonio Vivaldi Period: 1681 to 1767 Georg Philip Telemann Period: 1682 to 1738 Jean-Joseph Mouret Period: 1685 to 1759 Handel Period: 1685 to 1757 Domenico Scarlatti Period: 1685 to 1759 G. F. Handel Period: 1685 to 1750 J. S. Bach 1689 French and Indian War 1692 Salem Witch Trials Period: 1699 to 1783 Johann Hasse Period: 1700 to 1750 Late Baroque 1725 Le Quattro stagioni 4 violin Concertos for 4 seasons accompanied by a poem 1730 1st Great Awakening