Baroque music

Baroque music is a style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750. This era followed the Renaissance, and was followed in turn by the Classical era. The word "baroque" comes from the Portuguese word barroco, meaning misshapen pearl, a negative description of the ornate and heavily ornamented music of this period. Later, the name came to apply also to the architecture of the same period.

Baroque music forms a major portion of the "classical music" canon, being widely studied, performed, and listened to. Composers of the Baroque era include Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Alessandro Scarlatti, Domenico Scarlatti, Antonio Vivaldi, Henry Purcell, Georg Philipp Telemann, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Arcangelo Corelli, Tomaso Albinoni, François Couperin, Denis Gaultier, Claudio Monteverdi, Heinrich Schütz, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Jan Dismas Zelenka, and Johann Pachelbel.

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Agrell, Johan (1701 - 1765)Albinoni, Tomaso (1671 - 1751)
Aleotti, Bonaventura (c. 1640 - 1687)
Astorga, Juan Oliver y (1733 - 1830)
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714 - 1788)
Bach, Johann Christian (1735 - 1782)
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685 - 1750)
Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann [1710 - 1784)
Barbella, Francesco (1692 - 1733)
Barsanti, Francesco (1690 - 1772)
Bassani, Giovanni Battista (ca. 1647 - 1716)
Battiferri Luigi, d'Urbino (ca. 1610 - ca. 1682)
Benda, Franz (1709 - 1786)
Benda, Friedrich (1745 - 1814)
Blavet, Michel (1700 - 1768)
Boccherini, Luigi (1743 - 1805)
Bodinus, Sebastian (1700 - 1759)
Boismortier, Joseph Bodin de (1689 - 1755)
Bon, Anna (1738/40 - 1767)
Bononcini, Giovanni (1670 - 1747)
Buffardin Pierre-Gabriel (1690 - 1768)
Campra, André (1660 - 1744)
Cauciello, Prospero (ca. 1730 - ca. 1790)
Cecere, Carlo (1706 - 1761)
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine (1643 - 1704)
Chédeville, Nicolas (1705 - 1782)
Cimarosa, Domenico (1749 - 1801)
Clérambault, Louis-Nicolas (1676 - 1749)
Colista, Lelio (1629 - 1680)
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653 - 1713)
Corrette, Michel (1707 - 1795)
Couperin, François (1683 - 1733)
Dall'Abaco, Evaristo Felice (1675 - 1742)
Dandrieu, Jean-François (1682? - 1738)
de Fesch, Willem (1687 - 1761)
De la Barre, Michel (1675 - 1745)
de Lalande, Michel-Richard (1657 - 1726)
Demachi, Giuseppe (1740 - 1791)
Destouches, Andrè Cardinal (1672 - 1749)
Dieupart, Charles (c.1667 - 1740)
Dornel, Louis-Antoine (1685 - 1765)
Duval, François (1672 - 1728)
Endler, Johann Samuel (1694 - 1762)
Fanfani, Giuseppe Maria
Fasch, Johann Friedrich (1688 - 1758)
Fischer, Johann (1646 – 1716)
Fischietti, Domenico (1725 - 1810)
Freillon-Poncein, Jean-Pierre (ca. 1655 - ca. 1720)
Friedrich der Große (1714 - 1786)
Fux, Johann Joseph (1660 - 1741)
Gabrieli, Giovanni (1557 - 1612)
Galuppi, Baldassare, il Buranello (1706 - 1785)
Gasparini, Francesco (1661 - 1727)
Gautier (Gaultier), Pierre (1642 - 1696)
Geminiani, Francesco (1687 - 1762)
Graun, Carl Heinrich (1704 - 1759)
Graun, Johann Gottlieb (1703 - 1771)
Graupner, Christoph (1683 - 1760)
Gronemann, Johannes Albertus (ca. 1710 - 1778)
Guillemain, Louis-Gabriel (1705 - 1770)
Guillemant, Benoît (17?? - 17??)
Händel, Georg Friedrich (1685 - 1759)
Hasse, Johann Adolf (1699 - 1783)
Haydn, Franz Joseph (1732 - 1809)
Haydn, Michael (1737 - 1806)
Heinichen, Johann David (1683 - 1729)
Hotteterre, Jacques Martin “le Romain” (ca. 1674 - 1763)

Jommelli, Nicolò (1714 - 1774)
Joplin, Scott (1868 - 1917)
Kleinknecht, Jakob Friedrich (1722 - 1794)
Lampugnani, Giovanni Battista (c. 1708 - 1788)
Leclair, Jean-Marie (1697 - 1764)
Leo, Leonardo (1694 - 1744)
Locatelli, Pietro Antonio (1695 - 1764)
Lonati, Carlo Ambrogio (c.1645 - c.1715)
Lotti, Antonio (1667 - 1740)
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632 – 1687)
Mancini, Francesco (1672 - 1737)
Manfredini, Francesco (1684 - 1762)
Marais, Marin (1656 - 1728)
Marcello, Alessandro (1669 - 1747)
Marini, Biagio (1597 - 1665)
Mascitti, Michele (1664? - 1760)
Molter, Johann Melchior (1696 - 1775)
Mondonville, Jean-Joseph Cassaneà de (1711 - 1772)
Montéclair, Michel Pignolet de (1667 - 1737)
Monteverdi, Claudio (1567 - 1643)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756 - 1791)
Muffat, Georg (1653 - 1704)
Naudot, Jacques-Christophe (ca. 1690 – 1762)
P. Collasse - J-B. Matho - P. Gautier
Paisiello, Giovanni (1740 - 1816)
Pasquini, Bernardo (1637 - 1710)
Pepusch, Johann Christoph (1667 – 1752)
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710 - 1736)
Pez, Johann Christoph (1664 - 1716)
Philidor, André Danican (ca. 1647 – 1730)
Philidor, Anne Danican (1681 - 1728)
Philidor, François-André (1726 - 1795)
Pichl, Wenzel (Václav) (1741 - 1805)
Pisendel, Johann Georg (1687 - 1755)
Porpora, Nicolò (1686 - 1768)
Pugnani, Gaetano (1731 - 1798)
Purcell, Henry (1659 - 1695)
Quantz, Johann Joachim (1697 - 1773)
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683 - 1764)
Rebel, Jean-Féry (1666 - 1747)
Reinhardt, Johann Georg (1676/77 - 1742)
Richter, Franz Xaver (1709 - 1789)
Roman, Johan Helmich (1694 - 1758)
Sammartini, Giovanni Battista (1700 - 1775)
Sammartini, Giuseppe (1695 - 1750)
Sarro, Domenico (1679 - 1744)
Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660 - 1725)
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685 - 1757)
Schaffrath, Christoph (1709 - 1763)
Schickhardt, Johann Christian (1681 - 1762)
Schobert, Johann (c.1735 - 1767)
Stamitz, Anton [1750 - 1809)
Stradella, Alessandro (1639 - 1682)
Tartini, Giuseppe (1692 - 1770)
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681 - 1767)
Tessarini, Carlo (1690 - c. 1767
Torelli, Giuseppe (1658 - 1709)
Traetta, Tommaso (1727 - 1779)
Vanhal, Johann Baptist (1739 - 1813)
Venturini, Francesco (1675 - 17??)
Veracini, Francesco Maria (1690 - (1768)
Vinci, Leonardo (1690 - 1730)
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678 - 1741)
Woodcock, Robert (1690 - 1728)
Zelenka, Jan Dismas (1679 - 1745)

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