List of Baroque composers
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Early Baroque era composers (born 1550–1600)
Composers of the Early Baroque era include the following figures listed by the probable or proven date of their birth:- Emilio de' CavalieriEmilio de' CavalieriEmilio de' Cavalieri was an Italian composer, producer, organist, diplomat, choreographer and dancer at the end of the Renaissance era. His work, along with that of other composers active in Rome, Florence and Venice, was critical in defining the beginning of the musical Baroque era...
(c. 1550–1602) - Giulio CacciniGiulio CacciniGiulio Caccini , also known as Giulio Romano, was an Italian composer, teacher, singer, instrumentalist and writer of the very late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the founders of the genre of opera, and one of the single most influential creators of the new Baroque style...
(1551–1618) - Giovanni GabrieliGiovanni GabrieliGiovanni Gabrieli was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of his time, and represents the culmination of the style of the Venetian School, at the time of the shift from Renaissance to Baroque idioms.-Biography:Gabrieli was born in Venice...
(c. 1554/1557–1612) - Jacques Champion "La Chapelle" (before 1555–1642)
- Manuel Rodrigues CoelhoManuel Rodrigues CoelhoManuel Rodrigues Coelho was a Portuguese organist and composer. He is the first important Iberian keyboard composer since Cabezón....
(c. 1555–c. 1635) - Paolo QuagliatiPaolo QuagliatiPaolo Quagliati was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era and a member of the Roman School of composers...
(c. 1555–1628) - Johannes NuciusJohannes NuciusJohannes Nucius was a German composer and music theorist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras...
(c. 1556–1620) - Alfonso FontanelliAlfonso FontanelliAlfonso Fontanelli was an Italian composer, writer, diplomat, courtier, and nobleman of the late Renaissance...
(1557–1622) - Giovanni BassanoGiovanni BassanoGiovanni Bassano was an Italian Venetian School composer and cornettist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was a key figure in the development of the instrumental ensemble at St. Mark's basilica, and left a detailed book on instrumental ornamentation, which is a rich resource for...
(c. 1558–1617) - Richard AllisonRichard AllisonRichard Alison was an English composer. He wrote de la Tromba, a fine broken consort piece which has several professional recordings and first became well known due to the Julian Bream Consort....
(1560/1570?–1610?) - Felice AnerioFelice AnerioFelice Anerio was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, and a member of the Roman School of composers. He was the older brother of another important, and somewhat more progressive composer of the same period, Giovanni Francesco Anerio.-Life:Anerio was born in Rome and...
(1560–1614) - Giulio BelliGiulio BelliGiulio Belli was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was a prolific composer during the transitional time between the two musical eras, and worked in many cities in northern Italy.-Life:...
(c. 1560–1621 or later) - William BradeWilliam BradeWilliam Brade was an English composer, violinist, and viol player of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, mainly active in northern Germany. He was the first Englishman to write a canzona, an Italian form, and probably the first to write a piece for solo violin.-Biography:Little is known...
(1560–1630) - Diomedes CatoDiomedes CatoDiomedes Cato was an Italian-born composer and lute player, who lived and worked entirely in Poland. He is known mainly for his instrumental music...
(c. 1560/1565–1618) - Camillo Lambardi (c. 1560–1634)
- Giovanni Bernardino NaninoGiovanni Bernardino NaninoGiovanni Bernardino Nanino was an Italian composer, teacher and singing master of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, and a leading member of the Roman School of composers...
(c. 1560–1623) - Peter PhilipsPeter PhilipsPeter Philips was an eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest exiled to Flanders...
(c. 1560–1628) - Hieronymus PraetoriusHieronymus PraetoriusHieronymus Praetorius was a north German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and very early Baroque eras. He was not related to the much more famous Michael Praetorius, though the Praetorius family had many distinguished musicians throughout the 16th and 17th centuries.-Life:He was born...
(1560–1629) - Thomas Robinson (c. 1560–after 1609)
- Lodovico Grossi da ViadanaLodovico Grossi da ViadanaLodovico Grossi da Viadana was an Italian composer, teacher, and Franciscan friar of the Order of Minor Observants...
(c. 1560–1627) - Mikołaj Zieleński (c. 1560–c. 1620)
- Sebastian Aguilera de HerediaSebastian Aguilera de HerediaSebastian Aguilera de Heredia was a Spanish monk, musician and composer.He was first the organist at the cathedral in Huesca from 1585 to 1603, and then moved to a more prestigious position as maestro de música at La Seo Cathedral in Saragossa. He published a collection of works in 1618, and...
(1561–1627) - Jacopo PeriJacopo PeriJacopo Peri was an Italian composer and singer of the transitional period between the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and is often called the inventor of opera...
(1561–1633) - Francesco UsperFrancesco UsperFrancesco Usper , Italian composer and organist born in Rovigno, Istria . He settled in Venice before 1586 and is associated with the contrafraternity St. Giovanni Evangelista, Venice. He spent most of his life there, serving as organist, chaplain, manager of the adjoining church Francesco Usper...
, or Francesco Sponga (1561–1641) - John BullJohn Bull (composer)John Bull was an English composer, musician, and organ builder. He was a renowned keyboard performer of the virginalist school and most of his compositions were written for this medium.-Life:...
(1562/1563–1628) - Jan Pieterszoon SweelinckJan Pieterszoon SweelinckJan Pieterszoon Sweelinck was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. He was among the first major keyboard composers of Europe, and his work as a teacher helped establish the north German organ...
(1562–1621) - Jean TitelouzeJean TitelouzeJean Titelouze was a French composer, poet and organist of the early Baroque period. His style was firmly rooted in the Renaissance vocal tradition, and as such was far removed from the distinctly French style of organ music that developed during the mid-17th century...
(1562/1563–1633) - John DowlandJohn DowlandJohn Dowland was an English Renaissance composer, singer, and lutenist. He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as "Come, heavy sleep" , "Come again", "Flow my tears", "I saw my Lady weepe" and "In darkness let me dwell", but his instrumental music has undergone a major revival, and has...
(1563–1626) - Giles FarnabyGiles FarnabyGiles Farnaby was an English composer and virginalist of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.-Life:Giles Farnaby was born about 1563, perhaps in Truro, Cornwall, England or near London. His father, Thomas, was a Cittizen and Joyner of London, and Giles may have been related to Thomas Farnaby , the...
(c. 1563–1640) - Hans Leo HasslerHans Leo HasslerHans Leo Hassler was a German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, elder brother of the less-famous Jakob Hassler...
(1564–1612) - Gregor AichingerGregor AichingerGregor Aichinger was a German composer.He was organist to the Fugger family of Augsburg in 1584. In 1599 he went for a two year visit to Rome for musical, rather than religious reasons, although he had taken religious orders before his appointment under the Fugger. Proske, in the preface to vol...
(c. 1565–1628) - Duarte LoboDuarte LoboDuarte Lobo was a Portuguese composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque. He was one of the most famous Portuguese composers of the time, together with Filipe de Magalhães, Manuel Cardoso, composers who all began their academic studies as students of Manuel Mendes...
(c. 1565–1646) - Ascanio MayoneAscanio MayoneAscanio Mayone was an Neapolitan composer and harpist. He trained as a pupil of Giovanni de Macque in Naples, and worked at Santissima Annunziata there as organist from 1593 and maestro di cappella from 1621; he was also organist at the royal chapel from 1602...
(c. 1565–1627) - Francis PilkingtonFrancis PilkingtonFrancis Pilkington was an English composer, lutenist and singer. Pilkington received a B.Mus. degree from Oxford in 1595. In 1602 he became a singing man at Chester Cathedral and spent the rest of his life serving the cathedral. He became a minor canon in 1612, took holy orders in 1614 and was...
(c. 1565–1638) - Manuel CardosoManuel CardosoManuel Cardoso was a Portuguese composer and organist. With Duarte Lobo and John IV of Portugal, he represented the "golden age" of Portuguese polyphony....
(1566–1650) - Gaspar FernandesGaspar FernandesGaspar Fernandes was a Portuguese composer and organist active in the cathedrals of Santiago de Guatemala and Puebla de los Ángeles, New Spain .-Life:Most scholars agree that the Gaspar Fernandes listed as a singer in the cathedral of Évora,...
, or Fernández (1566–1629) - Alessandro PiccininiAlessandro PiccininiAlessandro Piccinini , was an Italian lutenist and composer.Piccinini was born in Bologna into a musical family: his father Leonardo Maria Piccinini taught lute playing to Alessandro as well as his brothers Girolamo and Filippo...
(1566–1638) - Lucia QuincianiLucia QuincianiLucia Quinciani was an Italian composer. She is the earliest known published female composer of monody. She is known only by one composition, a setting of "Udite lagrimosi spirti d’Averno, udite", from Giovanni Battista Guarini's Il pastor fido, found in Marcantonio Negri's Affetti amorosi , in...
(born c. 1566; fl. 1611) - Giovanni Francesco AnerioGiovanni Francesco AnerioGiovanni Francesco Anerio was an Italian composer of the Roman School, of the very late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was the younger brother of Felice Anerio...
(c. 1567–1630) - Thomas CampionThomas CampionThomas Campion was an English composer, poet and physician. He wrote over a hundred lute songs; masques for dancing, and an authoritative technical treatise on music.-Life:...
(1567–1620) - Christoph DemantiusChristoph DemantiusChristoph Demantius was a German composer, music theorist, writer and poet. He was an exact contemporary of Monteverdi, and represented a transitional phase in German Lutheran music from the polyphonic Renaissance style to the early Baroque.-Life:He was born in Reichenberg Christoph Demantius (15...
(1567–1643) - Nicolas ForméNicolas ForméNicolas Formé was a French composer.At the age of 20 in 1587 Formé joined the choir of the Sainte-Chapelle, but was excluded from the fraternity for drunkenness and womanising...
(1567–1638) - Girolamo Giacobbi (1567–1629) (:de:Girolamo Giacobbi)
- Joachim van den HoveJoachim van den HoveJoachim van den Hove was a Flemish/Dutch composer and a lutenist. He composed works for lute solo and for lute and voice. Moreover, he wrote many arrangements for lute of Italian, French, and English vocal and instrumental music, and of Flemish/Dutch folk music.Van den Hove was born Antwerp, and...
(c. 1567–1620) - René MesangeauRené MesangeauRené Mésangeau was a French composer and lutenist. He is considered to be one of the finest lutenists of the 17th century.In 1619, he settled in France and married the daughter of the spinet maker Jean Jacquet...
(fl. 1567–1638) - Claudio MonteverdiClaudio MonteverdiClaudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer.Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period. He developed two individual styles of composition – the...
(1567–1643) - Philip RosseterPhilip RosseterPhilip Rosseter was an English composer and musician, as well as a theatrical manager. From 1603 until his death in 1623 he was lutenist for James I of England. Rosseter is best known for A Book of Aires which was written with Thomas Campion...
(1567/1568–1623) - Adriano BanchieriAdriano BanchieriAdriano Banchieri was an Italian composer, music theorist, organist and poet of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He founded the Accademia dei Floridi in Bologna.-Biography:...
(1568–1634) - Bartolomeo BarbarinoBartolomeo BarbarinoBartolomeo Barbarino was an Italian composer and singer of the early Baroque era. He was a virtuoso falsettist, and one of the most enthusiastic composers of the new style of monody.-Life:...
(c. 1568–1617 or later) - Joan Baptista ComesJuan Bautista ComesJuan Bautista Comes , aka per Valencian spelling Joan Batiste Comes, was a Spanish Baroque composer who was born and died in Valencia....
(1568–1643) - Christian ErbachChristian ErbachChristian Erbach was a German organist and composer.Erbach was born in Gau-Algesheim, Mainz-Bingen, now in the Rhineland-Palatinate Bundesland, and began to study musical composition at a considerably young age...
(1568/1573–1635) - Tobias HumeTobias HumeTobias Hume was a Scottish composer, viol player and soldier.Little is known of his life. Some have suggested that he was born in 1569 because he was admitted to the London Charterhouse in 1629, a pre-requisite to which was being at least 60 years old, though there is no certainty over this...
(1569–1645) - Giovanni Paolo CimaGiovanni Paolo CimaGiovanni Paolo Cima was an Italian composer and organist in the early Baroque era. He was a contemporary of Claudio Monteverdi and Girolamo Frescobaldi, though not as well known as either of those men....
(c. 1570–1622) - Peeter CornetPeeter CornetPeeter Cornet was a Flemish composer and organist of the early Baroque period. Although few of his compositions survive, he is widely considered one of the best keyboard composers of the early 17th century.-Life:Very little is known about Cornet's life. Much of the information comes from a letter...
(c. 1570/1580–1633) - Pierre GuédronPierre GuédronPierre Guédron, , was a French singer and composer known for writing Airs de cour ....
(c. 1570–c. 1620) - Paul PeuerlPaul PeuerlPaul Peuerl was a German organist, organ builder, renovator and repairer, and composer of instrumental music....
(1570–1625) - Joan Pau PujolJoan Pau PujolJoan Pau Pujol was a Catalan and Spanish composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque. While best known for his sacred music, he also wrote popular secular music.-Life:Pujol was born in Mataró...
(1570–1626) - Salamone RossiSalamone RossiSalamone Rossi or Salomone Rossi was an Italian Jewish violinist and composer. He was a transitional figure between the late Italian Renaissance period and early Baroque.-Life:...
(c. 1570–1630) - Claudia SessaClaudia SessaClaudia Sessa was an Italian composer. A Milanese nun at the convent of S. Maria Annunciata, she composed two sacred works published in 1613...
(c. 1570–c. 1617/1619) - Giovanni Battista FontanaGiovanni Battista Fontana (composer)Giovanni Battista Fontana was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist.He was born in Brescia, and worked there and in Rome and Padua. He died in Padua during a plague....
(c. 1571–c. 1630) - Thomas LupoThomas LupoThomas Lupo was an English composer and viol player of the late Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. Along with Orlando Gibbons, John Coprario, and Alfonso Ferrabosco, he was one of the principal developers of the repertory for viol consort.-Life:He was part of a distinguished family of musicians, who...
(1571–1627) - Filipe de MagalhãesFilipe de MagalhãesFilipe de Magalhães was a Portuguese composer of sacred polyphony.-Life:Filipe de Magalhães was born in Azeitão, Portugal, in 1571. He studied music at the Cathedral of Évora with Manuel Mendes where he was a colleague of the equally renowned polyphonists Duarte Lobo and Manuel Cardoso...
(c. 1571–1652) - Martin PeersonMartin PeersonMartin Peerson was an English composer, organist and virginalist...
(1571/1573–1651) - Giovanni PicchiGiovanni PicchiGiovanni Picchi was an Italian composer, organist, lutenist, and harpsichordist of the early Baroque era. He was a late follower of the Venetian School, and was influential in the development and differentiation of instrumental forms which were just beginning to appear, such as the sonata and the...
(1571/1572–1643) - Michael PraetoriusMichael PraetoriusMichael Praetorius was a German composer, organist, and music theorist. He was one of the most versatile composers of his age, being particularly significant in the development of musical forms based on Protestant hymns, many of which reflect an effort to make better the relationship between...
(c. 1571–1621) - John WardJohn Ward (composer)John Ward was an English composer who was a contemporary of John Dowland.Born in Canterbury, John Ward was a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral. He went to London where he served Sir Henry Fanshawe both as an attorney in the Exchequer and as a musician. Ward married and had three children...
(1571–1638) - Daniel BachelerDaniel Bachelerthumb|right|250px|Daniel Bacheler from an engraving by [[Thomas Lant]] of the funeral procession of Sir Philip Sidney in 1586Daniel Bacheler, also variously spelt Bachiler, Batchiler or Batchelar, was an English lutenist and composer...
(1572–1619) - Thomas TomkinsThomas TomkinsThomas Tomkins was an English composer of the late Tudor and early Stuart period. In addition to being one of the prominent members of the English madrigal school, he was a skilled composer of keyboard and consort music, and the last member of the English virginalist school.-Life:Tomkins was born...
(1572–1656) - Cesarina RicciCesarina Ricci de TingoliCesarina Ricci de Tingoli was an Italian composer. She was related to the family of Cardinal Giovanni Ricci by birth, and the noble family of Tingoli by marriage. Her only known publication is Il Primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, con un dialogo a otto novamente composti & dati in luce...
de Tingoli (born c. 1573, fl. 1597) - Claudio PariClaudio PariClaudio Pari was a Sicilian composer, of Burgundian birth, of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was a competent madrigalist, well regarded by his peers, as well as a late representative of the musical style/ethos known as musica reservata.-Life:As has been recently established, he...
(1574–after 1619) - Francesco RasiFrancesco RasiFrancesco Rasi was an Italian composer, singer , chitarrone player, and poet.Rasi was born in Arezzo. He studied at the University of Pisa and in 1594 he was studying with Giulio Caccini. He may have been in Carlo Gesualdo's retinue when he went to Ferrara for his wedding in 1594...
(1574–1621) - John WilbyeJohn WilbyeJohn Wilbye , was an English madrigal composer. The son of a tanner, he was born at Brome, Suffolk, near Diss, and received the patronage of the Cornwallis family. It is thought that he accompanied Elizabeth Cornwallis to Hengrave Hall near Bury St...
(1574–1638) - Vittoria AleottiVittoria AleottiVittoria Aleotti , believed to be the same as Raffaella Aleotti was an Italian Augustinian nun, a composer and organist.-Personal Life and Musical Growth:...
(c. 1575–after 1620) - Abundio Antonelli (c. 1575?–c. 1629) (http://www.operas.com.ar/Music-Encyclopedia/2820/Antonelli.htm)
- Robert BallardRobert Ballard (lutenist)Robert Ballard was a prominent French lutenist and composer. His father, Robert Ballard Senior Robert Ballard (ca. 1572 or 1575, probably in Paris – after 1650) was a prominent French lutenist and composer. His father, Robert Ballard Senior Robert Ballard (ca. 1572 or 1575, probably in Paris...
(c. 1575–1645) - Estêvão de BritoEstêvão de BritoEstêvão de Brito was a Portuguese composer of polyphony.-Life:Estêvão de Brito was born in Serpa, Portugal. He studied music at the Cathedral of Évora with Filipe de Magalhães. On January 1597 he was already mestre de capela of the Cathedral of Badajoz , where he stayed until 1613...
(1575–1641) - John Coprario, or John Cooper (c. 1575–1626)
- Ignazio DonatiIgnazio DonatiIgnazio Donati was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era. He was one of the pioneers of the style of the concertato motet.Donati was born in Casalmaggiore...
(c. 1575–1638) - Daniel FarrantDaniel FarrantDaniel Farrant was an English composer, viol player and instrument maker. He invented types of citterns, the "poliphant" and the "stump", and also in England the early lyra viol or viola d'amore.-Recordings:...
(c. 1575–1651) - Alfonso FerraboscoAlfonso Ferrabosco the youngerAlfonso Ferrabosco the younger was an English composer and viol player of Italian descent. He straddles the line between the Renaissance and Baroque eras.-Biography:...
the younger (c. 1575–1628) - Michelagnolo GalileiMichelagnolo GalileiMichelagnolo Galilei was an Italian composer and lutenist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, active mainly in Bavaria and Poland. He was the son of music theorist and lutenist Vincenzo Galilei, and the younger brother of the renowned astronomer Galileo Galilei.- Life :Galilei was...
(1575–1631) - Ennemond GaultierEnnemond GaultierEnnemond Gaultier was a French lutenist and composer. He was one of the masters of the 17th century French lute school....
, le Vieux Gaultier (1575–1651) - Johann Groh (c. 1575–1627?) (:de:Johann Groh (Komponist))
- Léonard de Hodémont (c. 1575–1639) (:fr:Léonard de Hodémont)
- Esteban López MoragoEsteban López MoragoEstêvão Lopes Morago was a Spanish born composer who studied, lived, worked and died in Portugal. He is one of the most important polyphonists in the music history of Portugal...
, or Estêvão Lopes Morago (c. 1575–after 1630) - Giovanni PriuliGiovanni PriuliGiovanni Priuli was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. A late member of the Venetian School, and a contemporary of Claudio Monteverdi, he was a prominent musician in Venice in the first decade of the 17th century, departing after the death of his...
(c. 1575–1626) - Mateo Romero, or Mathieu Rosmarin (c. 1575–1647)
- William SimmesWilliam SimmesWilliam Simmes was an English Renaissance composer and musician. In service to the Earl of Dorset in 1608.-Recordings:*Renaissance Brass Music - Eastman Brass Quintet, Paris Instrumental Ensemble, Florian Hollard. Philip Collins, Daniel Patrylak, Verne Reynolds, Donald Knaub, Cherry Beauregard...
(c. 1575–c. 1625) - Giovanni Maria TrabaciGiovanni Maria TrabaciGiovanni Maria Trabaci was an Italian composer and organist. He was a prolific composer, with some 300 surviving works preserved in more than 10 prints, and was especially important for his keyboard music....
(c. 1575–1647) - Thomas WeelkesThomas WeelkesThomas Weelkes was an English composer and organist. He became organist of Winchester College in 1598, moving to Chichester Cathedral. His works are chiefly vocal, and include madrigals, anthems and services.-Life:Weelkes was baptised in the little village church of Elsted in Sussex on 25...
(1576–1623) - Stefano BernardiStefano BernardiStefano Bernardi , also known as "il Moretto", was an Italian priest, composer and music theorist...
(c. 1577–1637) - Antonio BrunelliAntonio BrunelliAntonio Brunelli was an Italian composer and theorist of the early Baroque period.He was a student of Giovanni Maria Nanino and served as the organist at San Miniato in Tuscany from 1604 to 1607, then moved to Prato where he served as maestro di capella at the Cathedral there...
(1577–1630) - Sulpitia CesisSulpitia CesisSulpitia Cesis was born in 1577 in Modena, Italy. She was an Italian composer as well as a well-regarded lutanist. Her father was Count Annibale Cesis and he gave 300 pieces of gold for her dowry upon entering the Augustian convent in Modena in 1593. She was a nun at the convent of Saint Geminiano...
(b. 1577; fl. 1619) - Agostino AgazzariAgostino AgazzariAgostino Agazzari was an Italian composer and music theorist.-Life:Agazzari was born in Siena to an aristocratic family. After working in Rome, as a teacher at the Roman College, he returned to Siena in 1607, becoming first organist and later choirmaster of the cathedral there...
(1578–1640) - Melchior FranckMelchior FranckMelchior Franck was a German composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was a hugely prolific composer of Protestant church music, especially motets, and assisted in bringing the stylistic innovations of the Venetian School north across the Alps into Germany.-Life:Details of his...
(c. 1579–1639) - Adriana BasileAdriana BasileAdriana Basile was an Italian composer and singer, born in Posillipo, and died in Rome. From 1610 she worked for the Gonzagas in Mantua. Members of her family also worked for the court, including her brothers, Giambattista Basile, a poet, Lelio Basile, a composer, and her sisters, Margherita and...
(c. 1580–c. 1640) - Domenico Brunetti (c. 1580–1646)
- Andrea Cima, or Giovanni Andrea Cima (c. 1580–after 1627)
- Jacques Cordier (c. 1580–before 1655)
- Richard DeringRichard DeringRichard Dering — also Deering, Dearing, Diringus, etc. — was an English Renaissance and Baroque composer. Despite being English, he lived and worked most of his life in the Spanish-dominated South Netherlands owing to his Roman Catholic faith.-Biography:Dering was likely a Protestant in England...
(c. 1580–1630) - Michael EastMichael East (composer)Michael East was an English organist and composer. He was a nephew of London music publisher Thomas East , although, once it was thought that he was his son....
(1580–1648) - Thomas FordThomas Ford (composer)Thomas Ford was an English composer, lutenist, viol player and poet.He was attached to the court of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, son of James I, who died in 1612...
(c. 1580–1648) - Johannes Hieronymus KapsbergerJohannes Hieronymus KapsbergerJohann Hieronymus Kapsberger , was a German-Italian virtuoso performer and composer of the early Baroque period...
, or Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (c. 1580–1651) - Johann Stobaeus (1580–1646) (:de:Johann Stobäus)
- Vincenzo UgoliniVincenzo UgoliniVincenzo Ugolini was an Italian composer of the early Baroque eras and of the Roman School.-Life:Born in Perugia, he was first a puer chori at San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome under Giovanni Bernardino Nanino; then he was engaged as a contralto until July 1594 and as a bass from the beginning of...
(c. 1580–1638) - Bellerofonte CastaldiBellerofonte CastaldiBellerofonte Castaldi was an Italian composer, poet and lutenist. His tabulatures are more complex than for example Kapsberger....
(c. 1581–1649) - Johannes JeepJohannes JeepJohannes Jeep, also Johann Jeep, was a German organist, choirmaster and composer.Jeep , who was born in Dransfeld, Germany, is remembered for his choral writing. He collected his student songs in Studentengartlein, the first volume published in 1607, the second volume in 1609, and both published...
(1581/1582–1644) - Johann StadenJohann StadenJohann Staden was a German Baroque organist and composer. He is best known for establishing the so-called Nuremberg school.-Life:He was the son of Hans Staden and Elisabeth Löbelle...
(1581–1634) - Gregorio AllegriGregorio AllegriGregorio Allegri was an Italian composer of the Roman School and brother of Domenico Allegri; he was also a priest and a singer. He lived mainly in Rome, where he would later die.-Life:...
(1582–1652) - Severo BoniniSevero BoniniSevero Bonini was an Italian composer, organist and writer on music.He was born in Florence and became a Benedictine monk. He studied singing with Giulio Caccini. He served as organist in Forlì from 1613 and held a number of other posts before returning to Florence in 1640 where he was maestro di...
(1582–1663) - Marco da GaglianoMarco da GaglianoMarco da Gagliano was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era. He was important in the early history of opera and the development of the solo and concerted madrigal.-Life:...
(1582–1643) - Sigismondo d'IndiaSigismondo d'IndiaSigismondo d'India was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the most accomplished contemporaries of Monteverdi, and wrote music in many of the same forms as the more famous composer.-Life:D'India was probably born in Palermo, Sicily in 1582, though...
(c. 1582–1629) - Thomas RavenscroftThomas RavenscroftThomas Ravenscroft was an English musician, theorist and editor, notable as a composer of rounds and catches, and especially for compiling collections of British folk music.He probably sang in the choir of St...
(c. 1582–c. 1635) - Thomas SimpsonThomas Simpson (composer)Thomas Simpson was an English composer who worked in Germany. Simpson, a generation younger than William Brade is first heard of at Heidelberg in 1608.-References:...
(1582–1628) (http://www.hoasm.org/IVM/SimpsonT.html) - Giovanni ValentiniGiovanni ValentiniGiovanni Valentini was an Italian Baroque composer, poet and keyboard virtuoso. Overshadowed by his contemporaries, Claudio Monteverdi and Heinrich Schütz, Valentini is practically forgotten today, although he occupied one of the most prestigious musical posts of his time...
(c. 1582–1649) - Paolo AgostinoPaolo AgostinoPaolo Agostino was an Italian composer and organist of the early Baroque era. He was born perhaps at Vallerano, near Viterbo. He studied under Giovanni Bernardino Nanino, according to the dedication in the third and fourth books of his masses...
, or Agostini (c. 1583–1629) - Girolamo FrescobaldiGirolamo FrescobaldiGirolamo Frescobaldi was a musician from Ferrara, one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. A child prodigy, Frescobaldi studied under Luzzasco Luzzaschi in Ferrara, but was influenced by a large number of composers, including Ascanio...
(1583–1643) - Orlando GibbonsOrlando GibbonsOrlando Gibbons was an English composer, virginalist and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean periods...
(1583–1625)
- Robert Johnson (c. 1583–1634)
- Mogens PedersønMogens PedersønMogens Pedersøn was a Danish instrumentalist and composer. He is considered the most important Danish-born composer before Buxtehude.-Life:Early in his career he entered the service of the Danish monarch, Christian IV...
(c. 1583–1623) - Nicolas ValletNicolas ValletNicolas Vallet was a Dutch lutenist and composer of French birth.Vallet, a Huguenot, was born at Corbeny, Aisne, but fled from France to the Netherlands for religious reasons...
(c. 1583–c. 1642) - Michael AltenburgMichael AltenburgMichael Altenburg was a German theologian and composer.Altenburg was born at Alach, near Erfurt. He began attending school in Erfurt in 1590; he began studying theology at the University of Erfurt in 1598, and was awarded a bachelor's degree in 1599 and a master's in 1603. From 1600 he taught at...
(1584–1640) - Antonio CifraAntonio CifraAntonio Cifra was an Italian composer of the Roman School of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the significant transitional figures between the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and produced music in both idioms.-Life and works:Son of Costanzo and Claudia, Antonio Cifra was born...
(1584–1629) - Francisco Correa de ArauxoFrancisco Correa de ArauxoFrancisco Correa de Araujo was a notable Spanish organist, composer, and theorist of the late Renaissance.-Life:...
(1584–1654) - Daniel Friderici (1584–1638) (:de:Daniel Friderici)
- Walter Rowe (c. 1584–1671) (:de:Walter Rowe)
- Louis Constantin (c. 1585–1657)
- Nicolò Corradini (c. 1585–1646) (:de:Niccolò Corradini)
- Andrea FalconieriAndrea FalconieriAndrea Falconieri , also known as Falconiero, was an Italian composer and lutenist from Naples. He resided in Parma from 1604 until 1614, and later moved to Rome, and then back to his native Naples, where in 1647 he became meastro di cappella at the royal chapel.-External links:...
(1585/1586–1656) - Peter HassePeter HassePeter Hasse was a German organist and composer, and member of the prominent musical Hasse family. The first written record of Hasse dates from his appointment as organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck, a post later held by Buxtehude...
(c. 1585–1640) - Heinrich SchützHeinrich SchützHeinrich Schütz was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi...
(1585–1672) - Antoine BoëssetAntoine BoëssetAntoine Boësset,Antoine Boesset or Anthoine de Boesset , sieur de Villedieu, was the superintendent of music at the Ancien Regime French court and a composer of secular music, particularly airs de cour. He and his father-in-law Pierre Guédron dominated the court's musical life for the first half...
, Sieur de Villedieu (1586–1643) - Alessandro GrandiAlessandro GrandiAlessandro Grandi was a northern Italian composer of the early Baroque era, writing in the new concertato style...
(1586–1630) - Stefano LandiStefano LandiStefano Landi was an Italian composer and teacher of the early Baroque Roman School. He was an influential early composer of opera, and wrote the earliest opera on a historical subject: Sant'Alessio .-Biography:Landi was born in Rome, the capital of the Papal States.In 1595 he joined the Collegio...
(1586/1587–1639) - Jacob PraetoriusJacob PraetoriusJacob Praetorius or Schultz was a German Baroque composer and organist, and the son of Hieronymus Praetorius. His grandfather, the father of Hieronymus, Jacob Praetorius the elder was also a composer....
(1586–1651) - Claudio SaraciniClaudio SaraciniClaudio Saracini was an Italian composer, lutenist, and singer of the early Baroque era. He was one of the most famous and distinguished composers of monody.-Life:Saracini was born to a noble family, probably in Siena...
(1586–1630) - Johann ScheinJohann ScheinJohann Hermann Schein was a German composer of the early Baroque era. He was born in Grünhain and died in Leipzig...
(1586–1630) - Paul SiefertPaul SiefertPaul Siefert was a German composer and organist associated with the North German school.-Biography:...
(1586–1666) - John AdsonJohn AdsonJohn Adson was an English musician and composer. Little is known about his early life; indeed, the first certain reference to him comes in 1604, when he was in service to Charles III, Duke of Lorraine as a cornett player...
(c. 1587–1640) - Francesca CacciniFrancesca CacciniFrancesca Caccini was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. She was the daughter of Giulio Caccini, and was one of the best-known and most influential female European composers between Hildegard of Bingen in the 12th century and the 19th century...
(1587–c. 1640) - Ivan LukačićIvan LukacicMarko Ivan Lukačić was a Croatian-born musician and composer of the Renaissance and early Baroque.-Biography:...
(c. 1587–1648) - Samuel ScheidtSamuel ScheidtSamuel Scheidt was a German composer, organist and teacher of the early Baroque era.-Biography:...
(1587–1654) - Francesco Colombini (1588–1671) (:de:Francesco Colombini)
- Johann Andreas HerbstJohann Andreas HerbstJohann Andreas Herbst was a German composer and music theorist of the early Baroque era. He was a contemporary of Michael Praetorius and Heinrich Schütz, and like them, assisted in importing the grand Venetian style and the other features of the early Baroque into Protestant Germany.- Life :He...
(1588–1666) - Nicholas LanierNicholas LanierNicholas Lanier, sometimes Laniere was an English composer, singer, lutenist and painter....
(1588–1666) - Guilielmus Messaus (1589–1640)
- Francesco TuriniFrancesco TuriniFrancesco Turini was an Italian composer and organist in the early Baroque era.Turini was born around 1595 in Prague, and was a pupil of his father Georgio Turini a singer and cornetist at the court of Emperor Rudolf II...
(1589–1656) - Caterina AssandraCaterina AssandraCaterina Assandra was an Italian composer and Benedictine nun. She was born in Pavia, Italy. She wrote a number of motets, as well as a number of organ pieces, written in German tablature. She studied counterpoint with the German Catholic exile Benedetto Re, or Reggio, one of the leading teachers...
(c. 1590–after 1618) - Giovanni Pietro Berti (c. 1590?–1638) (:no:Giovanni Pietro Berti)
- Dario CastelloDario CastelloDario Castello was an Italian composer and instrumentalist from the early Baroque period who worked and published in Venice. As regards his instrument, it is not clear whether he played the cornetto or the bassoon...
(c. 1590–c. 1658) - Andreas ChylińskiAndreas ChylinskiAndreas Chyliński was a Polish composer.His life is not well known; between 1630 and 1635 he lived as a Franciscan monk in Padua, where he was Kapellmeister at the church of Sant'Antonio. Of his music, sixteen canons survive....
, or Andrzej Chyliński (c. 1590–after 1635) - Jacob van EyckJacob van EyckJonkheer Jacob van Eyck was a Dutch nobleman and musician. He was one of the best-known musicians in The Netherlands in the seventeenth century as a carillon player, expert in bell casting and tuning, organist, recorder virtuoso, and composer.Van Eyck was born blind into a noble family in the...
(c. 1590–1657) - Juan Gutiérrez de PadillaJuan Gutierrez de PadillaJuan Gutiérrez de Padilla was a Spanish composer in what is modern Mexico.He was born in Málaga, Spain but moved to Puebla, Mexico, in 1620 to compose music in the New World. At the time New Spain was a viceroyalty of Spain that included modern day Mexico, Guatemala, the Philippines and other...
(c. 1590–1664) - Adam JarzębskiAdam JarzebskiAdam Jarzębski was an early baroque Polish composer, violinist, poet, and writer. The first documented mention of Jarzębski was in 1612, when he became a member of the chapel of Johann Siegmund Hohenzollern in Berlin...
(c. 1590–c. 1648) - Manuel MachadoManuel Machado (composer)Manuel Machado was a Portuguese composer and harpist. He was mostly active in Spain, as he was born when Portugal was under Spanish rule.-Life:...
(c. 1590–1646) - Johann SchopJohann SchopJohann Schop was a German violinist and composer, much admired as a musician and a technician, who was a virtuoso and whose compositions for the violin set impressive technical demands for that area at that time. In 1756 Leopold Mozart commented on the difficulty of a trill in a work by Schop,...
(c. 1590–1667) - Johannes ThesseliusJohannes ThesseliusJohannes Thesselius was a German-Transylvanian composer of church and dance music. He came from Vienna in 1625 to be kapellmeister to Gabriel Bethlen.-References:...
(c. 1590?–1643) - Alba TrissinaAlba TrissinaAlba Trissina was an Italian composer. She was a nun at the monastery of Araceli in Venice, and studied with Leone Eloni. Four motets for alto voice in Leoni's Sacri fiori: quarto libro de motettia are all of her compositions that survive. Her most noted work is Vulnerasti cor meum.-References:...
(c. 1590?–1638 or after) - Lucrezia Orsina VizzanaLucrezia Orsina VizzanaLucrezia Orsina Vizzana was an Italian singer, organist, and composer. She entered a Camaldolese convent in Bologna in 1598. She was taught by her aunt, Camilla Bombacci, who was the convent organist, and by Ottavio Vernizzi who was the unofficial music master...
(1590–1662) - Robert RamseyRobert Ramsey (composer)Robert Ramsey was an English composer and organist.He graduated as a Bachelor of Music from the University of Cambridge in 1616...
(1590s–1644) - Nicolò Borbone, or Borboni (c. 1591–1641)
- Settimia CacciniSettimia CacciniSettimia Caccini was an Italian composer and singer. She was the youngest daughter of composer Giulio Caccini and singer Lucia Gagnolanti. Her mother died when she was very young. She was the sister of Francesca Caccini, also a composer and singer, and Pompeo Caccini, a singer...
(1591–1638?) - Robert DowlandRobert DowlandRobert Dowland , son of composer John Dowland, was an English lutenist and composer. He was the author of two collections of music - "A Varietie of Lute Lessons" and "A Musical Banquet". He succeeded his father as royal lutenist in 1626....
(c. 1591–1641) - Isaac PoschIsaac PoschIsaac Posch was an Austrian composer and organist. He is chiefly known for his contribution to dance music Musicalische Ehrenfreudt 1618, and Musicalische Tafelfreudt 1621.-References:...
(1591?–c. 1623) (:de:Isaak Posch) - Guillaume BouzignacGuillaume BouzignacGuillaume Bouzignac was a French composer.Bouzignac was probably born 1587 in Saint-Nazaire-d'Aude. He studied at the Cathedral of Narbonne until 1604, and was choirmaster at the Cathedrals of Angoulême, Bourges, Tours and Clermont-Ferrand. His motets are preserved in two manuscripts...
(before 1592–after 1641) - Jacques GaultierJacques GaultierJacques Gaultier was a French Baroque lutenist. He was not related to the composers and lutenists Denis Gaultier and Ennemond Gaultier.Not much is known about his early life. In 1617, he had to leave France due to a duel and he escaped to England...
(c. 1592–after 1652) - John JenkinsJohn Jenkins (composer)John Jenkins , English composer, was born in Maidstone, Kent, and died at Kimberley, Norfolk.Little is known of his early life. The son of Henry Jenkins, a carpenter who occasionally made musical instruments, he may have been the "Jack Jenkins" employed in the household of Anne, Countess of Warwick...
(1592–1678) - Domenico MazzocchiDomenico MazzocchiDomenico Mazzocchi was an Italian baroque composer of the generation after Claudio Monteverdi. He was a composer of only vocal music, motets, oratorios and madrigals which have continuo, similar to the late Monteverdi's ones....
(1592–1665) - Melchior SchildtMelchior SchildtMelchior Schildt was a German composer and organist of the North German Organ School. He came from a long line of church musicians who had served the town of Hanover for over 125 years...
(1592/1593–1667) - Claudia RuscaClaudia RuscaClaudia Rusca was an Italian female composer, singer, and organist. She was a nun at the Umiliate monastery of St. Caterina in Brera. She learned music at home, before she professed her final vows at the convent. She probably wrote her Sacri concerti à 1–5 con salmi e canzoni francesi for use in...
(1593–1676) - Gottfried ScheidtGottfried ScheidtGottfried Scheidt was a German composer and organist.Born in Halle, he moved to Amsterdam in 1611 to study with Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, returning home in 1615 to further study with his older brother Samuel Scheidt and others. He was appointed organist to the Altenburg court in 1617, and held...
(1593–1661) - Johann Ulrich SteiglederJohann Ulrich SteiglederJohann Ulrich Steigleder was a German Baroque composer and organist. He was the most celebrated member of the Steigleder family, which also included Adam Steigleder , his father, and Utz Steigleder , his grandfather.Steigleder was born in Schwäbisch Hall on 22 March 1593...
(1593–1635) - Francesco ManelliFrancesco ManelliFrancesco Manelli was a Roman Baroque composer, particularly of opera; and theorbo player. He is most well known for his collaboration with fellow Roman composer Benedetto Ferrari in bringing commercial opera to Venice...
(1594–1667) - Biagio MariniBiagio MariniBiagio Marini was an Italian virtuoso violinist and composer of the first half of the seventeenth century.Marini was born in Brescia. His works were printed and influential throughout the European musical world...
(1594–1663) - Orazio Michi, "Orazio dell'Arpa" (c. 1594–1641) (:it:Orazio Michi dell'Arpa)
- Tarquinio MerulaTarquinio MerulaTarquinio Merula was an Italian composer, organist, and violinist of the early Baroque era. Although mainly active in Cremona, stylistically he was a member of the Venetian school...
(1594/1595–1665) - Antonio Maria AbbatiniAntonio Maria AbbatiniAntonio Maria Abbatini was an Italian composer, active mainly in Rome.Abbatini was born in Città di Castello. He served as maestro di cappella at the Basilica of St. John Lateran from 1626 to 1628; at the cathedral in Orvieto in 1633; and at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome between 1640 to 1646, 1649...
(c. 1595–1680) - Giovanni Battista BuonamenteGiovanni Battista BuonamenteGiovanni Battista Buonamente was an Italian composer and violinist in the early Baroque era. He served the Gonzagas in Mantua until c. 1622, and from c. 1626 to 1630 served the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna. Notably, in 1627 he played for the coronation festivities...
(c. 1595–1642) - Henry LawesHenry LawesHenry Lawes was an English musician and composer.He was born at Dinton in Wiltshire, and received his musical education from John Cooper, better known under his Italian pseudonym Giovanni Coperario, a famous composer of the day...
(1595–1662) - John Okeover, or Oker (c. 1595–1663)
- Bartolomé de Selma y SalaverdeBartolomé de Selma y SalaverdeFray Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde was a Spanish Baroque composer and virtuoso bassoonist. He was an Augustinian friar who was employed at the archducal court at Innsbruck from 1628 to 1630. His compositions include the Primo libro de canzoni, fantasie & correnti , and manuscript vocal...
(c. 1595–after 1638) (:de:Bartolomeo de Selma y Salaverde) - Heinrich ScheidemannHeinrich ScheidemannHeinrich Scheidemann was a German organist and composer. He was the best-known composer for the organ in north Germany in the early to mid-17th century, and was an important forerunner of Dieterich Buxtehude and J.S. Bach.-Life:...
(c. 1595–1663) - Constantijn HuygensConstantijn HuygensConstantijn Huygens , was a Dutch Golden Age poet and composer. He was secretary to two Princes of Orange: Frederick Henry and William II, and the father of the scientist Christiaan Huygens.-Biography:...
(1596–1687) - Giovanni RovettaGiovanni RovettaGiovanni Rovetta was an Italian baroque composer and maestro di capella of the Capella Marciana at St Mark's Basilica, Venice between Monteverdi and Cavalli.-References:...
(c. 1596–1668) (:de:Giovanni Rovetta) - Andreas DübenAndreas DübenAndreas Düben was a Swedish Baroque composer and organist, and father of Gustaf Düben. He was born near Leipzig and was admitted to Leipzig University in 1609. He studied with the renowned Dutch pedagogue Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck from 1614 until 1620 when he secured a position as organist in the...
(1597–1662) - Virgilio MazzocchiVirgilio MazzocchiVirgilio Mazzocchi was an Italian baroque composer.He was born in Civita Castellana, the younger brother of Domenico Mazzocchi. Like his brother, who shared some features of his career, he was largely a composer of sacred vocal music.Mazzocchi is associated with providing music for the papal chapels...
(1597–1646) - Charles RacquetCharles RacquetCharles Racquet was a French organist and composer, best known for his monumental organ Fantaisie.He came from a large family of Parisian organists and himself was appointed organist of Notre Dame de Paris at an early age, in 1618. He held the post until shortly before his death and was succeeded...
(1597–1664) - Luigi Rossi (c. 1597–1653)
- Johann CrügerJohann CrügerJohann Crüger was a German composer of well-known hymns.Crüger was born in Groß Breesen as the son of an innkeeper. He studied at the Lateinschule in Guben until 1613, after which he traveled to Sorau and Breslau and finally to Regensburg, where he received his first musical training from Paulus...
(1598–1662) - Giovanni Battista FasoloGiovanni Battista FasoloGiovanni Battista Fasolo was a Franciscan friar, organist and composer.In his middle years Fasolo was primarily known for his 1645 organ annual, which, like L'organo suonarino of Adriano Banchieri, from the generation before him, was intended for use in small parish churches, and are much simpler...
(c. 1598–c. 1664/1665) - Pierre GaultierPierre GaultierPierre Gaultier was a French scholar, lutenist and composer....
d'Orleans (1599–1681) - John HiltonJohn Hilton (composer)John Hilton was an English early baroque composer. He is best known for his books Ayres or Fa-Las for Three Voices and Catch That Catch Can.- Life :...
the younger (c. 1599–1657) - Étienne MouliniéÉtienne MouliniéÉtienne Moulinié was a French Baroque composer. He was born in Languedoc, and when he was a child he sang at the Narbonne Cathedral. Through the influence of his brother Antoine , Moulinié gained an appointment at court, as the director of music for Gaston d'Orléans, the younger brother of the king...
(1599–1676) - Thomas SelleThomas SelleThomas Selle was a German baroque composer.- Life :Selle was born in Zörbig but received his first instruction in Leipzig where he was probably a pupil of the Thomaskantor Sethus Calvisius. He was cantor in Heide in 1624 and in 1625 in the nearby Wesselburen...
(1599–1663)
- Juan ArañésJuan ArañésJuan Arañés was a Spanish baroque composer.Arañés was born in Catalonia, at an unknown date. After studies in Alcalá de Henares, he was maestro di cappella at the Spanish embassy in Rome, where in 1624 he published his Libro Segundo de tonos y villancicos. The first book is lost...
(fl. 1624–1649; d. c. 1649) - Orazio BassaniOrazio BassaniOrazio Bassani "Orazio della Viola" was an Italian viola-da-gambist. He was celebrated for his instrumental embellishments of madrigals, a few of which survive in manuscript sources. He was a colleague of Fabrizio Dentice and uncle of Francesco Maria Bassani.-References:...
, "Orazio della Viola" (d. 1615) (:fr:Orazio Bassani) - Giovanni Battista GrilloGiovanni Battista GrilloGiovanni Battista Grillo was an Italian composer and organist.Little is known about Grillo until he was elected organist to the Venetian confraternity 'Scuola Grande di S Rocco' on 28 August 1612. In addition he was appointed first organist of San Marco on 30 December 1619...
(d. 1622) - Marcantonio Negri (d. 1624)
- Giovanni Battista RiccioGiovanni Battista RiccioGiovanni Battista Riccio was a musician and composer of the early Baroque era, resident in Venice, most notable for his development of instrumental forms, particularly utilizing the recorder....
(fl. 1609–1621) - Francesco RognoniFrancesco Rognoni TaeggioFrancesco Rognoni [of] Taeggio was an Italian composer. He was the son of Riccardo Rognoni and brother of Giovanni Domenico Rognoni Taeggio, both prominent Italian composers and musicians...
Taeggio (d. c. 1626) - Giuseppe Scarani (fl. 1628–1641)
- Adam z WągrowcaAdam of WagrowiecAdam from Wągrowiec , was a Polish composer and organist, as well as a Cistercian monk in Wągrowiec closter. He was born in Margonin. He was famous during his life, and was invited to inspect a new organ in Gniezno cathedral on 17 March 1620...
(d. 1629)
Middle Baroque era composers (born 1600–1650)
Composers of the Middle Baroque era include the following figures listed by the date of their birth:- Mlle BocquetMlle BocquetMlle Bocquet was a French lutenist and composer. She ran a Salon with a Mlle de Scudéry from 1653–1659. She was in contact with members and founders of the Académie française. Bocquet's compositions explore the chromatic possibilities of the lute, with preludes in every key...
(early 17th century–after 1660) - Alessandro PogliettiAlessandro PogliettiAlessandro Poglietti was a Baroque organist and composer of unknown origin. In the second half of the 17th century Poglietti settled in Vienna, where he attained an extremely high reputation, becoming one of Leopold I's favorite composers...
(early 17th century–1683) - Luigi Battiferri (c. 1600/1610–c. 1682)
- Manuel CorreiaManuel CorreiaFrei Manuel Correia was a Portuguese Baroque composer.He was born in Lisbon, the son of an instrumentalist in the ducal capela at Vila Viçosa, Portugal. He followed his father into this establishment as a singer in 1616. He studied with Filipe de Magalhães, then emigrated to Madrid, Spain...
(c. 1600–1653) - Girolamo Fantini (c. 1600–1675) (:it:Girolamo Fantini)
- Simon IvesSimon IvesSimon Ives was an English composer and organist who was active in the court of Charles I of England. He composed many pastoral dialogues, partsongs, glees, and works for organ. He also composed music for the theatre....
(1600–1662) - Nicolaus à Kempis (c. 1600–1676)
- Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic (c. 1600–1676)
- Marcin MielczewskiMarcin MielczewskiMarcin Mielczewski was, together with his tutor Franciszek Lilius and Bartłomiej Pękiel, among the most notable Polish composers in the 17th century....
(c. 1600–1651) - Carlos PatiñoCarlos PatiñoCarlos Patiño was a Spanish baroque composer.Patiño was a choirboy at Seville Cathedral where he studied with Alonso Lobo. He married in 1622 but his wife's death in 1625 led to his entry into the priesthood...
(1600–1675) - Martino Pesenti (c. 1600–c. 1648) (:de:Martino Pesenti)
- Giovanni Felice SancesGiovanni Felice SancesGiovanni Felice Sances was an Italian singer and a Baroque composer. He was renowned in Europe during his time....
(c. 1600–1679) - Marco ScacchiMarco ScacchiMarco Scacchi was an Italian composer and writer on music.Scacchi was born in Gallese, Lazio. He studied under Giovanni Francesco Anerio in Rome. He was associated with the court at Warsaw from 1626, and was kapellmeister there from 1628 to 1649...
(c. 1600–1681/1687) - Delphin StrungkDelphin StrungkDelphin Strungk was a German composer and organist associated with the North German school....
(1600/1601–1694) - Jacques Champion de ChambonnièresJacques Champion de ChambonnièresJacques Champion de Chambonnières was a French harpsichordist, dancer and composer. Born into a musical family, Chambonnières made an illustrious career as court harpsichordist in Paris and was considered by many of his contemporaries to be one of the greatest musicians in Europe...
(1601/1602–1672) - Michelangelo RossiMichelangelo RossiMichelangelo Rossi was an important Italian composer, violinist and organist of the Baroque era....
(c. 1601–1656) - Francesco CavalliFrancesco CavalliFrancesco Cavalli was an Italian composer of the early Baroque period. His real name was Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni, but he is better known by that of Cavalli, the name of his patron Federico Cavalli, a Venetian nobleman.-Life:Cavalli was born at Crema, Lombardy...
(1602–1676) - Chiara Margarita CozzolaniChiara Margarita CozzolaniChiara Margarita Cozzolani , was a composer, singer and Benedictine nun. She spent her adult life cloistered in the convent of Santa Radegonda, Milan, where she became abbess and stopped composing...
(1602–c. 1678) - William LawesWilliam LawesWilliam Lawes was an English composer and musician.-Life and career:Lawes was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire and was baptised on 1 May 1602...
(1602–1645) - Marco MarazzoliMarco MarazzoliMarco Marazzoli was an Italian priest and composer.-Early life:Born at Parma, Marazzoli received early training as a priest, and was ordained around 1625. He moved to Rome in 1626, and entered the service of Cardinal Antonio Barberini...
(c. 1602–1662) - Christopher SimpsonChristopher SimpsonChristopher Simpson was an English musician and composer, particularly associated with music for the viola da gamba.-Life:Simpson was born between 1602 and 1606, probably at Egton, Yorkshire...
(c. 1602/1606–1669) - Orazio Tarditi (1602–1677) (http://www2.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Orazio_Tarditi)
- Benedetto FerrariBenedetto FerrariBenedetto Ferrari was an Italian composer, particularly of opera, librettist and theorbo player.Ferrari was born in Reggio nell'Emilia. He worked in Rome , Parma , and possibly in Modena at some time between 1623 and 1637. He created music and libretti in Venice and Bologna, 1637-44...
(c. 1603?–1681) - Francesco FoggiaFrancesco FoggiaFrancesco Foggia was an Italian composer of the Baroque.-Biography:Foggia was a boy soprano at the Collegium Germanicum of the Jesuits in Rome, and was a student of Antonio Cifra, and Paolo Agostini. Perhaps his family was in contact with Giovanni Bernardino Nanino, 'mastro di capella' at San...
(1603–1688) - Denis GaultierDenis GaultierDenis Gaultier was a French lutenist and composer. He was a cousin of Ennemond Gaultier.-Life:...
, Gaultier le jeune (1603–1672) - John IV of PortugalJohn IV of Portugal|-|John IV was the King of Portugal and the Algarves from 1640 to his death. He was the grandson of Catherine, Duchess of Braganza, who had in 1580 claimed the Portuguese crown and sparked the struggle for the throne of Portugal. John was nicknamed John the Restorer...
(1603–1656) - Caspar KittelCaspar KittelCaspar Kittel was a German baroque theorbist, and composer at the Dresden Hofkapelle. He was a pupil, then colleague of Heinrich Schütz, and preceded Schütz on the Kapellmeister's second sojurn in Italy from 1624.-References:...
(1603–1639) (:de:Kaspar Kittel) - Natale MonferratoNatale MonferratoNatale Monferrato was an Italian baroque composer. He was a pupil of Giovanni Rovetta, then was a singer at St Mark's Basilica in Venice, and then with the aid of Francesco Cavalli vicemaestro, or maestro di coro . On 30 April 1676 he became director, after a competition with Giovanni Legrenzi,...
(c. 1603–1685) - Diego Pontac (1603–1654) (:es:Diego Pontac)
- Marco UccelliniMarco UccelliniMarco Uccellini was an Italian Baroque violinist and composer.-Life:Uccellini's life is poorly known. Born at Forlimpopoli, Forlì, he studied in the Assisi seminary...
(1603/1610–1680) - Heinrich AlbertHeinrich Albert (composer)Heinrich Albert, also Heinrich Alberti, was a German composer and poet of the 17th century. He was member of the Königsberg Poetic Society . As a song composer, he was strongly influenced by Heinrich Schütz.- Biography :Heinrich Albert was born in Lobenstein, principality of Reuss...
(1604–1651) - François DufaultFrançois DufaultFrançois Dufault was a French lutenist and composer.Dufault was born in Bourges, France. As a student of Denis Gaultier, he enjoyed an excellent reputation as an instrumentalist, what is demonstrated in many contemporary sources where he was described as one of the greatest lutenist of his time...
(1604–1670) - Bonifatio Gratiani, or Bonifazio Graziani (1604/1605–1664) (:de:Bonifazio Graziani)
- Charles d'AssoucyCharles Coypeau d'AssoucyCharles Coypeau was a French musician and burlesque poet. In the mid-1630s he began using the nom de plume "D'Assouci" or "Dassoucy".-Life:...
(1605–1677) - Orazio BenevoliOrazio BenevoliOrazio Benevoli or Benevolo , was an Italian composer of large scaled polychoral sacred choral works; one work featured 48 vocal and instrumental lines....
(1605–1672) - Antonio BertaliAntonio BertaliAntonio Bertali was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era.He was born in Verona and received early music education there from Stefano Bernardi. Probably from 1624, he was employed as court musician in Vienna by Emperor Ferdinand II. In 1649 Bertali succeeded Giovanni Valentini as...
(1605–1669) - Francesca CampanaFrancesca CampanaFrancesca Campana was a Roman singer, spinet player and composer. She was born in Rome, thought to be the daughter of Andrea Campana, wife of the composer Giovan Carlo Rossi and sister-in-law of Luigi Rossi...
(c. 1605/1610–1665) - Giacomo CarissimiGiacomo CarissimiGiacomo Carissimi was an Italian composer, one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque, or, more accurately, the Roman School of music.-Biography:...
(1605–1674) - Francesco SacratiFrancesco SacratiFrancesco Sacrati was an Italian composer of the Baroque era, who played an important role in the early history of opera. He wrote for the Teatro Novissimo in Venice as well as touring his operas throughout Italy...
(1605–1650) - Johann VierdanckJohann VierdanckJohann Vierdanck was a German violinist, cornettist, and composer of the Baroque period.-Life:...
(c. 1605–1646) - William ChildWilliam ChildWilliam Child was an English composer and organist.Born in Bristol, William Child was a chorister in the cathedral under the direction of Elway Bevin. In 1630 he began his lifetime association with St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, becoming first a lay-clerk and, from 1632, Master of the...
(1606–1697) - Michel de La GuerreMichel de La GuerreMichel de La Guerre was a French organist and composer. His Triomphe de l'Amour sur les Bergers et les Bergères, with librettist Charles de Beys which was first sung in 1655, and staged in 1657, is one of the earliest French operas. After his death his son Marin de la Guerre succeeded him as...
(c. 1606–1679) - Aldebrando Subissati (1606–1677) (:de:Aldebrando Subissati)
- Urbán de VargasUrbán de Vargas-Life:Urbano Barguilla y de Ripalda was born in 1602 in Falces, south of Navarra. And studied with the maestro de capilla at Burgos, Luis Bernardo Jalón, known for his polemic activities and radical views on music...
(1606–1656) - Philipp Friedrich BöddeckerPhilipp Friedrich BöddeckerPhilipp Friedrich Böddecker was a German court organist and composer.While organist at the Stiftskirche he engaged in a bitter dispute with Samuel Capricornus at the Württemberg Court. His brother was the cornettist David Böddecker.-References:...
(1607–1683) (:de:Philipp Friedrich Böddecker) - Sigmund Theophil StadenSigmund Theophil StadenSigmund Theophil Staden was an important early German composer.Staden was born in Kulmbach, son of Johann Staden, the founder of the so-called Nuremberg school...
(1607–1655) - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1608–1657)
- Leonora DuarteLeonora DuarteLeonora Duarte was a Flemish composer and musician, born in Antwerp. She belonged to a wealthy Portuguese-Jewish family. They were marrano, meaning they outwardly acted as Catholics while secretly maintaining their Jewish faith and practices...
(1610–1678) - Henri Du MontHenri DumontHenri Dumont was a Franco-Belgian composer.- Life :Dumont was born to Henry de Thier and Elisabeth Orban in Looz . The family moved in 1613 to Maastricht, where Henri and his brother Lambert were choirboys at the church of Notre-Dame...
(1610–1684) - Jacques de GouyJacques de GouyJacques de Gouy was a French Baroque composer of Dutch ancestry. He was acquainted with composers in Parisian music circles of the early 17th century such as Étienne Moulinié and Michel Lambert.-Works:...
(c. 1610–after 1650) - Nicolas HotmanNicolas HotmanNicolas Hotman was a Baroque composer, who spent most of his career in France. He is believed to have been from Germany, but was probably born in Brussels. He came with his family to Paris around 1626....
(c. 1610–1663) - George JeffreysGeorge Jeffreys (composer)George Jeffreys was an English composer during the period that saw the introduction of the Italian seconda pratica to northern Europe.Peter Aston, Jeffeys, George in New Grove-External links:...
(c. 1610–1685) - Michel LambertMichel LambertMichel Lambert was a French singing master, theorbist and composer.Lambert was born at Champigny-sur-Veude, France. He received his musical education as an altar boy at the Chapel of Gaston d'Orléans. He studied also with Pierre de Nyert in Paris. Since 1636, he was known as a singing teacher...
(1610–1696) - Sébastien Le CamusSébastien Le CamusSébastien Le Camus was a French composer. He entered into the service of Louis XIII in 1640 and became intendant de la musique to Gaston d'Orléans in 1648.-References:...
(c. 1610–1677) (http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/musdico/Le_Camus/168717) - Nicolas MétruNicolas MétruNicolas Métru was a French organist, viol player, and composer of pieces for viol and airs. From 1642 he was organist at St. Nicolas-des-Champs, then some time later master of music for the Jesuits...
(1610–after 1663) - João Lourenço RebeloJoão Lourenço RebeloJoão Lourenço Rebelo, or João Soares Rebelo, was court composer to John IV of Portugal .-Life:Rebelo was born in Caminha in 1610. He entered the service of Teodósio II, Duke of Braganza in 1624 at the age of fourteen, then became music teacher to his son, who was to become João II, 8th Duke of...
(1610–1661) - William Young (c. 1610–1662) (http://www.vdgs.org.uk/files/thematicIndex/Y.pdf)
- Leonora BaroniLeonora BaroniLeonora Baroni was an Italian singer, theorbist, lutenist, viol player, and composer. She was the daughter of Adriana Basile, a virtuosa singer, and Mutio Baroni. Leonora Baroni was born at the Gonzaga court in Mantua. She sang alongside her mother and sister Caterina at court and across Italy,...
(1611–1670) - Pablo BrunaPablo BrunaPablo Bruna was a Spanish composer and organist notable for his blindness , which resulted in his being known as "El ciego de Daroca" . It is not known how Bruna received his musical training, but in 1631 he was appointed organist of the collegiate church of St...
(1611–1679) - Andreas HammerschmidtAndreas HammerschmidtAndreas Hammerschmidt , the "Orpheus of Zittau," was a German composer and organist, of Bohemian birth, of the early to middle Baroque era...
(1611/1612–1675) - Wolfgang EbnerWolfgang EbnerWolfgang Ebner was an German baroque composer. Ebner was Vienna court organist in the latter years of the reign of Ferdinand III, and then of Leopold I. Ebner may have preceeded Johann Heinrich Schmelzer as ballet master....
(1612–1665) (:fr:Wolfgang Ebner) - Elisabeth Sophie, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1613–1676)
- Wilhelm KargesWilhelm KargesWilhelm Karges , was a German organist and composer in the North German organ tradition. Much of Karges' life was spent in and around Berlin, where he was born, worked, and died. Karges came into contact with Sweelinck student Andreas Düben through his travels in North Germany and the Low...
(1613/1614–1699) - Thomas Mace (c. 1613–1709?) (http://musicaviva.com/encyclopedia/display.html?phrase=mace-thomas, :de:Thomas Mace)
- Louis de Mollier (c. 1613–1688) (http://operabaroque.fr/MOLLIER.htm)
- Giovanni Antonio Rigatti (c. 1613–1648) (:de:Giovanni Antonio Rigatti)
- Jean-Baptiste BoëssetJean-Baptiste BoëssetJean-Baptiste Boësset was a French composer of sacred and secular music, whose notable works include an Ave Regina and several airs de cour...
, Sieur de Dehault (1614–1685) - Philipp Friedrich Buchner (1614–1669) (:de:Philipp Friedrich Buchner)
- Juan Hidalgo de Polanco (1614–1685)
- Marc'Antonio PasqualiniMarc'Antonio Pasqualinithumb|right|200px| Marcantonio Pasqualini Crowned by Apollo by [[Andrea Sacchi]].Marc'Antonio Pasqualini was an Italian castrato opera singer who performed during the Baroque period. He has been described as "the leading male soprano of his day"...
(1614–1691) - Franz TunderFranz TunderFranz Tunder was a German composer and organist of the early to middle Baroque era. He was an important link between the early German Baroque style which was based on Venetian models, and the later Baroque style which culminated in the music of J.S...
(1614–1667) - Heinrich BachHeinrich BachHeinrich Bach was a German organist, composer and a member of the Bach family.Heinrich Bach was born at Wechmar, Germany, and is the father of the so-called Arnstädt Line. After the early death of his father, his older brother Johannes Bach continued his music education and teaching him organ...
(1615–1692) - Angelo Michele BartolottiAngelo Michele BartolottiAngelo Michele Bartolotti was an Italian guitarist, theorbo player and composer. Bartolotti was probably born in Bologna as he describes himself as "Bolognese" on the title page of his first guitar book and "di Bologna" on the title page of his second. His early career was probably spent in...
(c. 1615–1696) - Francesco CorbettaFrancesco CorbettaFrancesco Corbetta was an Italian guitar virtuoso, teacher and composer. He spent his early career in Italy. He seems to have worked as a teacher in Bologna where the guitarist and composer Giovanni Battista Granata may have been one of his pupils...
(c. 1615–1681) - Christopher GibbonsChristopher GibbonsChristopher Gibbons was an English composer and organist. He was the second son, and first surviving child of the composer Orlando Gibbons.As a child, Gibbons sang in the Chapel Royal under the direction of Nathaniel Giles...
(1615–1676) - Francisco Lopez CapillasFrancisco Lopez CapillasFrancisco López Capillas was a Mexican composer born in Mexico City.He was chapelmaster of Mexico City Cathedral from 21 April 1654, until his death. He was the most prolific composer of Baroque masses in Mexico....
(c. 1615–1673) - Maurizio CazzatiMaurizio CazzatiMaurizio Cazzati was a northern Italian composer of the seventeenth century.-Biography:Cazzati was born in Luzzara, Duchy of Mantua...
(1616–1678) - Kaspar FörsterKaspar FörsterKaspar Förster was a German singer and composer.Förster studied music under his father Kaspar and then under Marco Scacchi in Warsaw...
(the younger) (1616–1673) - Johann Jakob FrobergerJohann Jakob FrobergerJohann Jakob Froberger was a German Baroque composer, keyboard virtuoso, and organist. He was among the most famous composers of the era and influenced practically every major composer in Europe by developing the genre of keyboard suite and contributing greatly to the exchange of musical...
(1616–1667) - Johann Erasmus KindermannJohann Erasmus KindermannJohann Erasmus Kindermann was a German Baroque organist and composer. He was the most important composer of the Nuremberg school in the first half of the 17th century.-Life:...
(1616–1655) - Jacques de Saint-LucJacques de Saint-LucJacques de Saint-Luc was a Flemish lutenist and composer.Saint-Luc was born in Ath in 1616; nothing is known about his early years. In 1639 he was invited to become a musician at the court in Brussels, and two years later he had his portrait painted by Gerard Seghers...
(1616–c. 1710) - Matthias WeckmannMatthias WeckmannMatthias Weckmann was a German musician and composer of the Baroque period. He was born in Niederdorla and died in Hamburg.- Life :...
(c. 1616–1674) - Carlo Caproli (c. 1617–c. 1692) (:it:Carlo Caproli)
- Nicolaus Hasse (c. 1617–1672) (:de:Nicolaus Hasse)
- Francisco Martins (c. 1617?–1680) (http://musicologicus.blogspot.com/2010/02/francisco-martins.html)
- Joan CererolsJoan CererolsJoan Cererols was a Catalan musician and Benedictine monk. His musical production includes a Requiem composed in the mid-seventeenth century during the great plague which ravaged Barcelona, and a Missa de Batalla which celebrates the conquest of the Kingdom of Naples.Cererols was born in...
(1618–1680) - Abraham van den KerckhovenAbraham van den KerckhovenAbraham van den Kerckhoven was a Flemish organist and composer. He was active in Brussels, working as organist of Church of Saint Catherine and as court organist, and was held in high regard by his contemporaries...
(c. 1618–c. 1701) - José MarínJosé Marín (composer)José Marín was a Spanish baroque harpist, guitarist and composer noted for his secular songs, tonos humanos. In 1644 he entered the Royal Convent of La Encarnación in Madrid as a tenor. He was a priest and cantor of the capilla real under Felipe IV and Carlos II. His career was marked by scandals...
(1618–1699) - Pierre RobertPierre Robert (composer)Pierre Robert was French composer and early master of the French grand motet.Pierre Robert was educated at the boys choir, or maîtrise, of Notre-Dame de Paris under the direction of Henry Frémart, Jean Francois, and Cosset Veillot before being appointed master of music at the Cathedral of Senlis...
(c. 1618–1699) - Giulio Cesare Arresti (1619–1701) (:de:Giulio Cesare Arresti)
- Anthoni van NoordtAnthoni van NoordtAnthoni van Noordt was a Dutch composer and organist.Born in Amsterdam, where he lived throughout his life, he was the brother of Jacobus van Noordt...
(c. 1619–1675) - Johann RosenmüllerJohann RosenmüllerJohann Rosenmüller , was a German Baroque composer, who played a part in transmitting Italian musical styles to the north....
(1619–1684) - Barbara StrozziBarbara StrozziBarbara Strozzi was an Italian Baroque singer and composer.-Life:...
(1619–1677) - Juan García de ZéspedesJuan García de ZéspedesJuan García de Zéspedes was a Mexican composer, singer, and viol player and teacher.He is thought to have been born in Puebla, Mexico. As a boy he was a soprano in the choir at Puebla Cathedral in 1630 under Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla. In 1664 he succeeded maestro Gutiérrez de Padilla in an...
(c. 1619–1678) - Johannes Baptista Dolar, also Janez Krstnik Dolar or Jan Křtitel Tolar (c. 1620–1673)
- Adam DreseAdam DreseAdam Drese was a German composer and bass viol player. He was appointed Kapellmeister to Duke Wilhelm IV of Saxe-Weimar in 1652, but in 1662, after the death of the duke, the Capelle was disbanded and Drese sought a similar position with Duke Bernhard at Jena...
(c. 1620–1701) - Giovanni Battista GranataGiovanni Battista GranataGiovanni Battista Granata was an Italian classical guitarist and composer. By profession, Granata was a barber-surgeon.- Career :...
(1620/1621–1687) - Isabella LeonardaIsabella LeonardaIsabella Leonarda was an Italian composer from Novara. At the age of 16, she entered the Collegio di Sant'Orsola, an Ursuline convent, where she stayed for the remainder of her life...
(1620–1704) - Johann Heinrich SchmelzerJohann Heinrich SchmelzerJohann Heinrich Schmelzer was an Austrian composer and violinist of the Baroque era. Almost nothing is known about his early years, but he seems to have arrived in Vienna during the 1630s, and remained composer and musician at the Habsburg court for the rest of his life...
(c. 1620–1680) - Georg Arnold (1621–1676)
- Albertus BryneAlbertus BryneAlbertus Bryne was an English organist and composer.-Biography:His teacher was John Tomkins, organist of St Paul's Cathedral, a role in which he succeeded his teacher in 1638. He was dismissed from the post by the Puritans and, during the Commonwealth, taught the harpsichord...
(1621–1668) - Matthew LockeMatthew Locke (composer)Matthew Locke was an English Baroque composer and music theorist.-Biography:As a boy, Locke was trained in the choir of Exeter Cathedral, under Edward Gibbons, the brother of Orlando Gibbons...
(c. 1621–1677) - Georg NeumarkGeorg NeumarkGeorg Neumark was a German poet and composer of hymns.- Life :Neumark was the son of Michael Neumark and his wife Martha. From 1630 he attended the Gymnasium in Schleusingen and later transferred to that of Gotha. In 1640 he began law studies at the University of Königsberg...
(1621–1681) - Heinrich SchwemmerHeinrich SchwemmerHeinrich Schwemmer was a German music teacher and composer.He was born in Gumpertshausen bei Hallburg, Lower Franconia, and moved with his mother to Weimar after his father’s death in 1627, to get away from the Thirty Years War. After his mother's death in 1638, he moved to Coburg, then in 1641 to...
(1621–1696) - Ercole BernabeiErcole BernabeiErcole Bernabei was an Italian composer and organist.Bernabei was born in Caprarola, and was mainly active in Germany. His daughter married another expatriate Italian musician, Gio Paolo Bombarda. Bernabei died in Munich.- Operas :...
(1622–1687) - Jean Lacquemant, known as DuBuisson (c. 1622–1680) (:fr:Jean Lacquemant)
- Gaspar de VerlitGaspar de VerlitGaspar de Verlit or Gaspar Verlit was a Baroque composer, first chorister and later also a singer at the court chapel in Brussels, choirmaster at St.Vincent’s Church in Soignies and singing master at St. Nicolas Church in Brussels. In 1658, he became chaplain at the court chapel. He published two...
(1622–1682) - Dietrich BeckerDietrich BeckerDietrich Becker was a German Baroque violinist and composer.Little is known about Becker's musical education. His first position was as organist at Ahrensberg. In his second position, in the service of the Chapelle Ducale of the Duke Christian-Ludwig at Celle, he mainly devoted himself to the...
(c. 1623–c. 1679) - Antonio CestiAntonio CestiAntonio Cesti , known today primarily as an Italian composer of the Baroque era, he was also a singer , and organist. He was "the most celebrated Italian musician of his generation".- Biography :...
(1623–1669) - Jacopo MelaniJacopo MelaniJacopo Melani was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era. He was born and died in Pistoia, and was the brother of composer Alessandro Melani and singer Atto Melani.-Works:...
(1623–1676) - John BanisterJohn Banister (composer)John Banister was an English musical composer and violinist.-Early life:Banister was the son of one of the waits of the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, and that profession he at first followed...
(c. 1624/1630–1679) - David PohleDavid PohleDavid Pohle was a German baroque composer. His surname is also spelled Pohl, Pohlen, Pole, Pol or Bohle.-Recordings:...
(1624–1695) (:de:David Pohle) - Francesco ProvenzaleFrancesco ProvenzaleFrancesco Provenzale was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher.Before the year 1658, there is virtually no record of Provenzale's existence, although it's thought that he studied at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini in Naples. The year of his entry into history is 1654, the year his...
(1624–1704) - François RoberdayFrançois RoberdayFrançois Roberday was a French Baroque organist and composer. One of the last exponents of the French polyphonic music tradition established by Jean Titelouze and Louis Couperin, Roberday is best remembered today for his Fugues et caprices, a collection of four-part contrapuntal organ...
(1624–1680) - Johann Rudolf AhleJohann Rudolph AhleJohann Rudolph Ahle was a German composer, organist, theorist, and Protestant church musician.-Biography:Ahle was born in Mühlhausen, Thuringia. While not much is known of his early musical training, he studied at the grammar school in Göttingen and then studied theology at the University of...
(1625–1673) - Jacques GallotJacques GallotJacques Gallot was a French lutenist and composer....
(c. 1625–1696) - Marco Giuseppe Peranda (c. 1625–1675) (:de:Marco Giuseppe Peranda, http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Peranda-Marco-Gioseppe.htm)
- Wolfgang Carl BriegelWolfgang Carl BriegelWolfgang Carl Briegel was a German organist and composer. As a boy he was a student in Nuremberg and sang in the Frauenkirche choir. He later studied at the University of Altdorf and became the organist at St Johannis church and a grammar school teacher in Schweinfurt...
(1626–1712) - Louis CouperinLouis CouperinLouis Couperin was a French Baroque composer and performer. He was born in Chaumes-en-Brie and moved to Paris in 1650–51 with the help of Jacques Champion de Chambonnières. Couperin worked as organist of the Church of St. Gervais in Paris and as musician at the court...
(c. 1626–1661) - Christian Flor (1626–1697) (:de:Christian Flor)
- Giovanni LegrenziGiovanni LegrenziGiovanni Legrenzi was an Italian composer of opera, vocal and instrumental music, and organist, of the Baroque era...
(1626–1690) - Charles MoutonCharles MoutonCharles Mouton was a famous French lutenist and lute composer.There is only little information known about him. He was born probably in Rouen, studied probably with Denis Gaultier and early in his career, he worked at the court of the dukes of Savoy in Turin. In the 1660s, he taught lute Paris...
(1626–1710) - Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz (1626–1667?)
- Nicolas GigaultNicolas GigaultNicolas Gigault was a French Baroque organist and composer. Born into poverty, he quickly rose to fame and high reputation among fellow musicians. His surviving works include the earliest examples of noëls and a volume of works representative of the 1650–1675 style of the French organ...
(c. 1627–1707) - Johann Caspar Kerll (1627–1693)
- Christoph BernhardChristoph BernhardChristoph Bernhard was born in Kolberg, Pomerania, and died in Dresden. He studied with former Sweelinck-pupil Paul Siefert in Danzig and in Warsaw By the age of 20 he was singing at the electoral court in Dresden under Heinrich Schütz...
(1628–1692) - Robert CambertRobert CambertRobert Cambert was a French composer principally of opera. His opera Pomone was the first actual opera in French.Born in Paris in 1628, he studied music under Chambonnières, His first position was as organist at the church of St. Honor in Paris...
(c. 1628–1677) - Samuel CapricornusSamuel CapricornusSamuel Friedrich Capricornus, born Samuel Friedrich Bockshorn was a Czech composer.-Works, editions and recordings:...
(1628–1665) (:de:Samuel Capricornus) - Constantin Christian Dedekind (1628–1715) (:de:Constantin Christian Dedekind, http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Dedekind-Constantin-Christian.htm)
- Gustav Düben (1628–1690)
- Paul Hainlein (1628–1686) (:de:Paul Hainlein)
- Jean-Henri d'AnglebertJean-Henri d'AnglebertJean-Henri d'Anglebert was a French composer, harpsichordist and organist. He was one of the foremost keyboard composers of his day.-Life:...
(1629–1691) - Lelio ColistaLelio ColistaLelio Colista was an Italian Baroque composer and lutenist.Funded by his father, who held an important position in the Vatican library, Colista early received an excellent musical education, probably at the Seminario Romano. He masterly managed several instruments, especially the lute and theorbo...
(1629–1680) - Mary Dering (1629–1704)
- Andreas HoferAndreas Hofer (composer)Andreas Hofer was a German composer of the Baroque age.Hofer was born at Reichenhall. He was a contemporary of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, whose predecessor he was in Salzburg in his office of Inspector and "Hofkapellmeister", i.e. director of the court orchestra. Like Biber, Hofer was...
(1629–1684) - Johann Michael Nicolai (1629–1685) (http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Nicolai-Johann-Michael.htm, :de:Johann Michael Nicolai)
- Cristóbal GalánCristóbal GalánCristóbal Galán was a Spanish baroque composer.The first record of Galán is that in 1651 he was rejected as maestro de capilla in Sigüenza because he was married. From 1653 singer and organist, then later maestro de capilla in Cagliari, Sardinia. Then from 1656 to 1559 in Morella, Castellon...
(c. 1630–1684) - Filipe da Madre de DeusFilipe da Madre de DeusFrei Filipe da Madre de Deus was a Portuguese baroque composer.-Life:Filipe da Madre de Deus was born in Lisbon, about 1630...
(c. 1630–c. 1688 or later) - Carlo PallavicinoCarlo PallavicinoCarlo Pallavicino was an Italian composer.Pallavicino was born at Salò, Italy. From 1666 to 1673, he worked at the Dresden court, from 1674 to 1685, at the Ospedale degli Incurabili in Venice and further in Dresden...
(c. 1630–1688) - Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi MealliGiovanni Antonio Pandolfi MealliGiovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli was an Italian composer and violinist....
(c. 1630?–1669/1670) - Antonio SartorioAntonio SartorioAntonio Sartorio was an Italian composer active mainly in Italy and in Hamburg, Germany. He was a leading composer of operas in his native Venice in the 1660s and 1670s and was also known for composing in other genres of vocal music...
(1630–1680) - Vincenzo AlbriciVincenzo AlbriciVincenzo Albrici was an Italian composer.Vincenzo was born as the son of singer who settled from Marche in Rome. In 1641 he became a student on Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum under Giacomo Carissimi. In 1647 he was paid as an organist in the Santa Maria in Vallicella...
(1631–1696) (:de:Vincenzo Albrici) - Thomas BaltzarThomas BaltzarThomas Baltzar was a German violinist and composer. He was born in Lübeck to a musical family; his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all musicians. Sources suggest an array of music teachers who may have taught him in his early years. According to the writings of Samuel Hartlib,...
(c. 1631–1663) - Nicolas LebègueNicolas LebègueNicolas Lebègue was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was born in Laon and in 1650s settled in Paris, quickly establishing himself as one of the best organists of the country. He lived and worked in Paris until his death, but frequently made trips to other cities to...
(1631–1702) - Sebastian Anton SchererSebastian Anton SchererSebastian Anton Scherer was a German composer and organist of the Baroque era.Scherer was born in Ulm, where he resided until his death. On 17 June 1653 he was elected town musician, and it was also around that time that he became assistant to Tobias Eberlin, then organist of the famous Ulm...
(1631–1712) - Jean-Baptiste LullyJean-Baptiste LullyJean-Baptiste de Lully was an Italian-born French composer who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He is considered the chief master of the French Baroque style. Lully disavowed any Italian influence in French music of the period. He became a French subject in...
(1632–1687) - Guillaume-Gabriel NiversGuillaume-Gabriel NiversGuillaume-Gabriel Nivers was a French organist, composer and theorist. His first livre d'orgue is the earliest surviving collection with traditional French organ school forms...
(1632–1714) - Giovanni Battista VitaliGiovanni Battista VitaliGiovanni Battista Vitali was an Italian composer and violone player.Vitali was born in Bologna and spent all of his life in the Emilian region, moving to Modena in 1674...
(1632–1692) - Jean-Nicolas GeoffroyJean-Nicolas GeoffroyJean-Nicolas Geoffroy was a French harpsichordist and organist. His birthplace is unknown; he died in Perpignan....
(1633–1694) - Sebastian KnüpferSebastian KnüpferSebastian Knüpfer was a German composer. He was the cantor of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig from 1657 to 1676, and director of the city’s music.-Life:...
(1633–1676) - Pavel Josef VejvanovskýPavel Josef VejvanovskýPavel Josef Vejvanovský Czech composer and trumpeter. Contemporary and associate of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber.Some notable works by Pavel Josef Vejvanovský:...
(c. 1633/1639–1693) - Clamor Heinrich AbelClamor Heinrich AbelClamor Heinrich Abel was a German composer, violinist and organist.Abel was born in Hünnefeld, Westphalia, Germany. He worked as a court musician in Köthen, an organist in Celle and from 1666, as a ducal chamber musician in Hanover...
(1634–1696) - Antonio DraghiAntonio DraghiAntonio Draghi was a Baroque composer. He possibly was the brother of Giovanni Battista Draghi.Draghi was born at Rimini in Italy, and was one of the most prolific composers of his time. His contribution to the development of Italian opera was particularly significant...
(c. 1634–1700) - Carlo GrossiCarlo GrossiCarlo Grossi was an Italian composer.-Life:He is believed to have been the first composer to use the term "divertimento", in his 1681 composition "Il divertimento de' grandi musiche da camera, ò per servizio di tavola". He was the organist at the church of SS...
(c. 1634–1688) - Adam KriegerAdam KriegerAdam Krieger was a German composer. Born in Driesen, Neumark, he studied organ with Samuel Scheidt in Halle. He succeeded Johann Rosenmüller as organist at Leipzig's Nikolaikirche and founded the city's Collegium Musicum before settling for the rest of his career in Dresden.Krieger composed and...
(1634–1666) - Andrés de Sola (1634–1696) (:es:Andrés de Sola)
- Pietro Simone Agostini (c. 1635–1680) (:it:Pietro Simone Agostini)
- Lambert ChaumontLambert ChaumontLambert Chaumont was a Flemish Baroque composer and organist.Chaumont was from the Liège area, possibly born in that city. The earliest mention of his name dates from January 1649, when he is listed as a lay brother at the Carmelite monastery at Liège...
(c. 1635–1712) - Daniel DanielisDaniel DanielisDaniel Danielis was a Belgian composer. He studied at Maastricht and was organist at Saint Lambert's Church. Between 1661 and 1681 he served as Kapellmeister at the court of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. In 1684 he became maître de musique at Vannes Cathedral.-Recordings:* Danielis Caeleste convivium...
(1635–1696) (:fr:Daniel Danielis) - Johann Wilhelm Furchheim (c. 1635–1682) (:de:Johann Wilhelm Furchheim)
- Miguel de IrízarMiguel de IrízarMiguel de Irízar y Domenzain was a Spanish baroque composer.Irízar trained as a choirboy in León and Toledo. In August 1657 he became maestro de capilla in Vitoria, then in August 1671 appointed to Segovia Cathedral where he remained for his remaining thirteen years.The correspondence of Irízar...
(1635–1684) - Joannes Florentius a KempisJoannes Florentius a KempisJoannes Florentius a Kempis was a Baroque composer from the Southern Netherlands.Joannes Florentius was the fifth son of the probably more famous Nicolaes a Kempis. Like his father, Joannes Florentius was also a composer and an organist. Between 1670 and 1672, he succeeded to his father’s...
(1635–after 1711) - Paul I, Prince Esterházy of Galántha (1635–1713)
- Augustin PflegerAugustin PflegerAugustin Pfleger was a German composer of Bohemian birth.-Life:Pfleger was born at Schlackenwerth, now Ostrov, and became a court musician at Schlackenwerth. In 1662 he moved to the court of the Duke of Mecklenburg in Güstrow and in 1665 to Gottorf as Kappelmeister at the Schleswig-Holstein court...
(1635–1686) - Jacek RóżyckiJacek RóżyckiJacek Hyancithus Różycki was a Polish composer of Baroque music. He began his musical career in the court orchestra of Władysław IV. Eventually he took over the function of the director of the court musical ensemble...
(c. 1635–1704) - Angelo BerardiAngelo BerardiAngelo Berardi was an Italian music theorist and composer.Born in Sant'Agata Feltria, "Sant'Agata, Tuscany", or some other Sant'Agata yet to be identified, he received early education at Forlì under Giovanni Vincenzo Sarti . From 1662 he was maestro di cappella in Montefiascone...
(c. 1636–1694) - Giovanni Battista Degli Antonii, or Degli Antoni (c. 1636?–after 1696)
- Esaias ReusnerEsaias ReusnerEsaias Reusner was a German lutenist and composer....
(1636–1679) - Dieterich BuxtehudeDieterich BuxtehudeDieterich Buxtehude was a German-Danish organist and composer of the Baroque period. His organ works represent a central part of the standard organ repertoire and are frequently performed at recitals and in church services...
(c. 1637–1707) - Giovanni Paolo ColonnaGiovanni Paolo ColonnaGiovanni Paolo Colonna was an Italian musician and composer.-Biography:Colonna was born in Bologna, then part of the Papal States. He was a pupil of Filippuzzi in his native city, and of Abbatini and Benevoli in Rome, where for a time he held the post of organist at S. Apollinare...
(1637–1695) - Johann Georg Ebeling (1637?–1676) (http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Ebeling.htm)
- Giovanni Maria Pagliardi (1637–1702) (:it:Giovanni Maria Pagliardi)
- Bernardo PasquiniBernardo Pasquiniright|thumb|Bernardo PasquiniBernardo Pasquini was an Italian composer of opera and church music.He was born at Massa in Val di Nievole . He was a pupil of Antonio Cesti and Loreto Vittori...
(1637–1710) - Bernardo StoraceBernardo StoraceBernardo Storace was an Italian composer. Almost nothing is known about his life; his only surviving collection of music contains numerous variation sets and represents a transitory stage between the time of Girolamo Frescobaldi and that of Bernardo Pasquini.-Life:Very little is known about his...
(1637–1707) - Diogo Dias MelgásDiogo Dias MelgásDiogo Dias Melgás was a Portuguese composer of polyphony.-Life:Diogo Dias Melgás was born in Cuba, Alentejo, on 14 April 1638. He was a choirboy at the Colégio da Claustra in Évora in 1646...
(1638–1700) - Giovanni Buonaventura VivianiGiovanni Buonaventura VivianiGiovanni Buonaventura Viviani was an Italian composer and violinist. He worked in the court at Innsbruck as a violinist at least between 1656 and 1660. Between 1672 to 1676 he was director of the court music at Innsbruck, which, after the extinction of the Tyrolean Habsburgs, had come under the...
(1638–c. 1693) - Pietro Degli Antonii (1639–1720) (:de:Pietro degli Antonii)
- António Marques Lésbio (1639–1709)
- Alessandro MelaniAlessandro MelaniAlessandro Melani was an Italian composer and the brother of composer Jacopo Melani, and castrato singer Atto Melani. Along with Bernardo Pasquini and Alessandro Scarlatti, he was one of the leading composers active in Rome during the 17th century...
(1639–1703) - Johann Christoph PezelJohann Christoph PezelJohann Christoph Pezel was a German violinist, trumpeter, and composer. He lived at Leipzig from 1661 to 1681, with an interruption in 1672, when he entered an Augustinian monastery in Prague, which however he left soon after to become a Protestant...
(1639–1694) - Juan García de SalazarJuan García de SalazarTo be distinguished from Antonio de Salazar, a choirmaster at the cathedral in Mexico City.Juan García de Salazar was a Spanish baroque composer best remembered for his choral works in the stile antico, though a few Spanish works in a more modern style have also survived.Salazar was born in...
(1639–1710) - Alessandro StradellaAlessandro StradellaAlessandro Stradella was an Italian composer of the middle baroque. He enjoyed a dazzling career as a freelance composer, writing on commission, collaborating with distinguished poets, producing over three hundred works in a variety of genres.-Life:Not much is known about his early life, but he...
(1639–1682) - Amalia CatharinaAmalia CatharinaAmalia Catharina , Countess of Erbach, was a German poet and composer. She was born in Arolsen to Count Philipp Theodor von Waldeck and the Countess of Nassau. In 1664 she married Count Georg Ludwig von Erbach. She published a number of Pietist poems and songs in Hildburghausen in 1692. They were...
, Countess of Erbach (1640–1697) - Pedro de Araújo (b. c. 1640?; fl. 1662–1705)
- Antonia BemboAntonia BemboAntonia Bembo was an Italian composer and singer. She was born in Venice and died in Paris. She was the daughter of Giacomo Padoani, a doctor, and married Lorenzo Bembo in 1659. She moved to Paris before 1676, possibly to leave a bad marriage. There she sang for Louis XIV...
(c. 1640–1720) - Giovanni Battista DraghiGiovanni Battista Draghi (composer)Giovanni Battista Draghi was an Italian composer and keyboard player. He may have been the brother of the composer Antonio Draghi....
(c. 1640–1708) - Carolus HacquartCarolus HacquartCarolus Hacquart was a composer, born c. 1640 in Bruges, in present-day Belgium.-Life:Hacquart received his education, comprising Latin and composition as well as viola da gamba, lute and organ, most probably in his native town...
(c. 1640–1701?) - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1640–1705)
- Paolo LorenzaniPaolo LorenzaniPaolo Francesco Lorenzani was an Italian composer of the Baroque Era. While living in France, he helped promote appreciation for the Italian style of music....
(1640–1713) - André RaisonAndré RaisonAndré Raison was a French Baroque composer and organist. During his lifetime he was one of the most famous French organists and an important influence on French organ music. He published two collections of organ works, in 1688 and 1714. The first contains liturgical music intended for monasteries...
(1640s–1719) - Carl Rosier (1640–1725) (:de:Carl Rosier)
- Monsieur de Sainte-ColombeMonsieur de Sainte-ColombeMonsieur de Sainte-Colombe was a French composer and violist.It is speculated by various scholars that Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe was of Lyonnais or Burgundian petty nobility; and also the selfsame 'Jean de Sainte-Colombe' noted as the father of 'Monsieur de Saint Colombe le fils.This assumption...
(c. 1640–c. 1700) - Gaspar SanzGaspar SanzGaspar Sanz was an Aragonese composer, guitarist, organist and priest born to a wealthy family in Calanda in the Spanish comarca of Bajo Aragón. He studied music, theology and philosophy at the University of Salamanca, where he was later appointed Professor of Music...
(1640–1710) - Nicolaus Adam StrungkNicolaus Adam StrungkNicolaus Adam Strungk was a German composer and violinist.-Life:...
(1640–1700) - Esther Elizabeth VelkiersEsther Elizabeth Velkiers-Biography:Esther Velkiers was born in Geneva, Switzerland. She was nearly blind from an accident with an oven when she was a baby, and was taught letters by her father using wooden blocks. She learned Latin, German, Italian and French, and then studied philosophy, mathematics, theology and...
(c. 1640–after 1685) - Wolfgang Caspar Printz (1641–1717) (:de:Wolfgang Caspar Printz)
- Johann Friedrich AlbertiJohann Friedrich AlbertiJohann Friedrich Alberti was a German composer and organist.He received his musical training in Leipzig from Werner Fabricius and in Dresden from Vincenzo Albrici...
(1642–1710) - Johann Christoph BachJohann Christoph BachJohann Christoph Bach was a German composer and organist of the Baroque period. He was born at Arnstadt, the son of Heinrich Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach's great uncle, hence he was Johann Sebastian's first cousin once removed. He was also the uncle of Maria Barbara Bach, J.S...
(1642–1703) - Giovanni Maria BononciniGiovanni Maria BononciniGiovanni Maria Bononcini was an Italian violinist composer, the father of a musical dynasty.In 1671 Bononcini the elder became a court musician at Modena. His treatise, Musico prattico, was published in 1673....
(1642–1678) - Benedictus BunsBenedictus BunsBenedictus Buns, Benedictus à sancto Josepho, born Buns, also named Buns Gelriensis, was a priest and composer.-Biography:...
, or Benedictus a Sancto Josepho (1642–1716) - Michelangelo FalvettiMichelangelo FalvettiMichelangelo Falvetti was an Italian baroque composer. He was maestro of the Real Cappella of Messina.-Works, editions and recordings:...
(1642–1692) - Friedrich FunckeFriedrich Funcke-Life:Funcke was born in Nossen. After studies in Wittenberg in 1660–61 he became Kantor at Perleberg. In 1664 he was appointed Kantor at St Johannis, Lüneburg where he stayed till 1594. He moved to Römstedt where he spent his last years. He died at Lüneburg....
(1642–1699) - Marc-Antoine CharpentierMarc-Antoine CharpentierMarc-Antoine Charpentier, , was a French composer of the Baroque era.Exceptionally prolific and versatile, he produced compositions of the highest quality in several genres...
(1643–1704) - Jan Adam Reincken (1643?–1722)
- Ignazio AlbertiniIgnazio AlbertiniIgnazio Albertini was an Italian Baroque violinist and composer.Very little is known about Albertini's life. He may have been born in Milan, but first surfaces in Vienna, in a letter exchange between the famous violinist Johann Heinrich Schmelzer of the Viennese court and Karl II von...
(1644–1685) - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644–1704)
- Juan Bautista José CabanillesJuan CabanillesJuan Bautista José Cabanilles was a Spanish organist and composer at Valencia Cathedral...
(1644–1712) - Maria Cattarina CalegariMaria Cattarina CalegariCornelia [Maria Cattarina ] Calegari , was an Italian composer, singer, organist, and nun. She was revered for her singing talents in her home city and became a published composer in 1659, at the age of 15, with the release of her book of motets, Motetti ὰ voce sola.Cornelia was born at Bergamo...
(1644–1675) - Johann Samuel DreseJohann Samuel DreseJohann Samuel Drese was a German composer and member of the musical Drese family. In 1683 he was appointed Kapellmeister in Weimar. He was in charge of music when J.S. Bach worked in Weimar in 1703 and 1708. His cousin was Adam Drese.-References:*Oxford Composer Companions, J.S. Bach, 1999, p. 142...
(c. 1644–1716) - Johann Wolfgang FranckJohann Wolfgang FranckJohann Wolfgang Franck was a German baroque composer.-Life:He worked from 1673 to 1679 as Kapellmeister in Ansbach and then lived from 1679 to 1690 in Hamburg. Here he initially composed several geistliche Sing-Spiele for the Oper am Gänsemarkt. From 1682 to 1685 he held the position of cantor in St...
(1644–1710) - Tomás de Torrejón y VelascoTomás de Torrejón y VelascoTomás de Torrejón y Velasco Sánchez was a Spanish composer, musician and organist based in Peru, associated with the American Baroque.-Life:...
(1644–1728) - Johann Georg ConradiJohann Georg ConradiJohann Georg Conradi was a German composer. He was, with Johann Theile, Nicolaus Adam Strungk, Johann Philipp Fortsch, Johann Wolfgang Franck and Johann Sigismund Kusser one of the main composers of the early Hamburg Opera....
(1645–1699) (:de:Johann Georg Conradi, http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Conradi-Johann-Georg.htm) - August KühnelAugust KühnelAugust Kühnel was a German composer and accomplished viola da gamba performer. He was born at Delmenhorst.Kühnel was born as a son of Mecklenburg chamber musician Samuel Kühnel...
(1645–c. 1700) - Johann Löhner (1645–1705) (:it:Johann Lohner)
- Carlo Ambrogio LonatiCarlo Ambrogio LonatiCarlo Ambrogio Lonati also Lunati; was an Italian composer, violinist and singer. Francesco Maria Veracini described him in 1760 as one of the most virtuoso violinist of his century.- Life :...
(c. 1645–1710) (:de:Carlo Ambrogio Lonati) - Christian Ritter (c. 1645–c. 1725) (:de:Christian Ritter, http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/make-table.cgi?Composer=RitterC)
- Andreas WerckmeisterAndreas WerckmeisterAndreas Werckmeister was an organist, music theorist, and composer of the Baroque era.-Life:Born in Benneckenstein, Germany, Werckmeister attended schools in Nordhausen and Quedlinburg. He received his musical training from his uncles Heinrich Christian Werckmeister and Heinrich Victor Werckmeister...
(1645–1706) - Juan de AraujoJuan de AraujoJuan de Araujo was a musician and composer of the Early to Mid Baroque.Araujo was born in Villafranca, Spain. By 1670 he was nominated maestro di capella of Lima Cathedral. In the following years he travelled to Panama and most probably to Guatemala...
(1646–1712) - Johann FischerJohann Fischer (composer)Johann Fischer was a German violinist, keyboardist and composer of the baroque era. His name is not to be confused with another composer named Johann Fischer, born in Lübeck and listed by Johannes Moller in Cimbria literata...
(1646–1716) - Rupert Ignaz Mayr (1646–1712) (:de:Rupert Ignaz Mayr)
- René Pignon Descoteaux (c. 1646–1728)
- Johann TheileJohann TheileJohann Theile was a German composer of the Baroque era, famous for the opera Adam und Eva, Der erschaffene, gefallene und aufgerichtete Mensch, first performed in Hamburg on January 2, 1678.- Life :...
(1646–1724) - Pelham HumfreyPelham HumfreyPelham Humfrey was the first to prominence of the new generation of English composers at the beginning of the Restoration....
(1647–1674) - Antonio Teodoro Ortells (1647–1702) (:es:Antonio Teodoro Ortells)
- Michael WiseMichael WiseMichael Wise was an English organist and composer. He sang as a child in the choir of the Chapel Royal and served as a countertenor in St George's Chapel, Windsor from 1666 until, in 1668, he was appointed Organist and Choirmaster at Salisbury Cathedral...
(c. 1647–1687) - Johann Michael BachJohann Michael BachJohann Michael Bach was a German composer of the Baroque period. He was the brother of Johann Christoph Bach, as well as father-in-law of Johann Sebastian Bach...
(1648–1694) - Johann Melchior Caesar (c. 1648–1692) (http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz7719.html, de:s)
- Giovanni Maria Capelli (1648–1726) (:it:Giovanni Maria Capelli)
- David Funck (1648?–after 1690) ([])
- Johann SchelleJohann SchelleJohann Schelle was a German baroque composer.Schelle was born in Geising and died in Leipzig. He was the cantor of the Thomanerchor from 1677 to 1701....
(1648–1701) - Poul Christian SchindlerPoul Christian SchindlerPoul Christian Schindler was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....
(1648–1740) - John BlowJohn BlowJohn Blow was an English Baroque composer and organist, appointed to Westminster Abbey in 1669. His pupils included William Croft, Jeremiah Clarke and Henry Purcell. In 1685 he was named a private musician to James II. His only stage composition, Venus and Adonis John Blow (baptised 23 February...
(1649–1708) - Jacques BoyvinJacques BoyvinJacques Boyvin was a French Baroque composer and organist.He was probably born in Paris, and studied there. One of his first jobs was that of organist of the parisian church des Quinze-Vingts, and in 1674 he was appointed titular organist of the Rouen Cathedral, where Jean Titelouze served as...
(1649–1706) - Pieter BustijnPieter BustijnPieter Bustijn was a Dutch composer, organist, harpsichordist and carillon player of the Baroque period....
(c. 1649–1729) - Pascal CollassePascal CollassePascal Collasse was a French composer of the Baroque era. Born in Rheims, Collasse became a disciple of Jean-Baptiste Lully during the latter's domination of the French operatic stage...
(1649–1709) - Michel Farinel (1649–1726) (:de:Michel Farinel)
- Francisco GuerauFrancisco GuerauFrancisco Guerau was a Spanish Baroque composer. Born on Majorca, he entered the singing school at the Royal College in Madrid in 1659, becoming a member of the Royal Chapel as an alto singer and composer ten years later. Named a member of the Royal Chamber of king Charles II of Spain in 1693, he...
(1649–1717/1722) - Andreas KnellerAndreas KnellerAndreas Kneller was a German composer and organist of the North German school.-Biography:...
(1649–1724) - Johann Philipp Krieger (1649–1725)
- Johann Valentin MederJohann Valentin MederJohann Valentin Meder was a German composer, organist, and singer. Meder was born in Wasungen, Thuringia to a musical family with his father and four brothers all being...
(1649–1719)
- Bartholomäus AichBartholomäus AichBartholomäus Aich was a South-German organist and composer in the 17th century. Little is known about his life: originally from the village of Uttenweiler near Biberach an der Riß in Upper Swabia, he was the organist of the convent of canonesses in Lindau/Lake Constance.His only surviving work is...
(fl. 1648) - Gioanpietro Del Buono (fl. 1641–1644; d. 1657) (:fr:Gioan Pietro Del Buono)
- Gervise Gerrard (16??–16??)
- Bernardo Gianoncelli (fl. early 17th century; d. before 1650)
- Louis GrabuLouis GrabuLouis Grabu, Grabut, Grabue, or Grebus was a Catalan-born, French-trained composer and violinist who was mainly active in England....
(fl. 1665–1693) - Nicola MatteisNicola MatteisNicola Matteis was a leading Baroque violinist in London and a composer of significant popularity in his time....
(fl. c. 1670–1698; d. after 1713) - Peter Mohrhardt, or Morhard (fl. from 1662; d. 1685) (http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Morhard-Peter.htm, :de:Peter Mohrhardt)
- Bartłomiej Pękiel (d. c. 1670)
- Bernardo SabadiniBernardo SabadiniBernardo Sabadini was an Italian opera composer. He may have been a native of Venice. A number of his operas appear to have been revisions of works by other composers to an unknown extent...
(fl. from 1662; d. 1718) - Louis SaladinLouis SaladinLouis Saladin was a seventeenth-century composer from Provence, France. He wrote in the Baroque style and is most remembered for his association with the Provençal Jewish community and the commissioned works he composed for that community....
(fl. c. 1670) - August Verdufen, or Werduwen (17th century) (http://jonathan.dunford.free.fr/html/manuscri.htm)
Late Baroque era composers (born 1650–1700)
Composers of the Late Baroque era include the following figures listed by the date of their birth:- Cataldo AmodeiCataldo AmodeiCataldo Amodei was a Sicilian Baroque musician. He was born in Sciacca and in 1685 was ordained as a priest; in the same year he became maestro di cappella at the church of San Paolo Maggiore, Naples...
(c. 1650–c. 1695) - Giovanni Battista BassaniGiovanni Battista BassaniGiovanni Battista Bassani was an Italian composer, violinist, and organist.Battista was born in Padua. It is thought that he studied in Venice under Daniele Castrovillari and in Ferrara under Giovanni Legrenzi. Charles Burney and John Hawkins claimed he taught Arcangelo Corelli, but there is no...
(c. 1650–1716) - Giovanni Battista BreviGiovanni Battista BreviGiovanni Battista Brevi was an Italian baroque composer.His later collections of cantatas comprised three out of the four publications of Fortuniano Rosati, Modena, the fourth being by count Pirro Albergati.-Works:...
(c. 1650–1725) - Christian GeistChristian GeistChristian Geist was a German composer and organist, who lived and worked mainly in Scandinavia.-Biography:He was born in Güstrow, where his father, Joachim Geist, was cantor at the cathedral school. 1665–1666 and 1668–1669 he was a boy member of the court orchestra conducted by Daniel Danielis of...
(c. 1650–1711) - Johann Anton LosyJan Antonín LosyJan Antonín Losy, Count of Losinthal ; also known as Comte d'Logy , was a Bohemian aristocrat, Baroque lute player and composer from Prague. His lute works combine the French style brisé with a more Italian cantabile style...
von Losinthal, or Comte d'Logy (c. 1650–1721) - Guillaume MinoretGuillaume MinoretGuillaume Minoret was a French baroque composer.He was of the generation of Marc-Antoine Charpentier, but unlike him only a small part of his œuvre survives...
(c. 1650–1717/1720) - Juan Francisco de NavasJuan de NavasJuan de Navas was a Spanish baroque composer and harpist. As court harpist to Charles II of Spain he was sought as approver of Torres y Martínez Bravo's treatise on thoroughbass.-Works, editions and recordings:...
(c. 1650–1719) - Antonio de SalazarAntonio de Salazar (composer)Antonio de Salazar was a Mexican composer.Salazar arrived in New Spain in 1688 as chapel master of Puebla Cathedral, then later held his final position later at Mexico City Cathedral...
(c. 1650–1715) - Stanisław Sylwester Szarzyński (c. 1650–c. 1720)
- Pietro Torri (1650–1737) (:it:Pietro Torri)
- Robert de ViséeRobert de ViséeRobert de Visée was a lutenist, guitarist, theorbist and viol player at the court of Louis XIV, as well as a singer, and composer for lute, theorbo and guitar.-Biography:...
(c. 1650–1732/1733) - Johann Jacob WaltherJohann Jakob WaltherJohann Jakob Walther was a German violinist and composer.- Life :All the known facts of his life and activity are from Musikalischen Lexikon by Johann Gottfried Walther , a dictionary which first appeared in 1732. He was born in Witterda bei Erfurt...
(1650–1717) - Johann Georg AhleJohann Georg AhleJohann Georg Ahle was a German composer, organist, theorist, and Protestant church musician.-Biography:Ahle was born at Mühlhausen. His father was Johann Rudolph Ahle, who supplied him with early musical training. At the age of 23 he succeeded his late father at the post of organist at St. Balsius...
(1651–1706) - Petronio FranceschiniPetronio FranceschiniPetronio Franceschini was a Baroque music composer from Bologna.-Biography:Franceschini studied under Perti and became also the main cellist in Basilica di San Petronio. He composed mainly church music and he is credited of an innovative use of trumpet and voices. Also notable are his 6 operas...
(1651–1680) - Domenico GabrielliDomenico GabrielliDomenico Gabrielli was an Italian Baroque composer and virtuoso cello player. He was apparently not related to the Venetian Gabrielis....
(1651/1659–1690) - Gilles JullienGilles JullienGilles Jullien was a French Baroque composer and organist.He is credited with bringing the style of French organ music then current in Paris to Chartres....
(c. 1651/1653–1703) - Johann KriegerJohann KriegerJohann Philipp Krieger was a German Baroque composer and organist. He was the elder brother of Johann Krieger.-Early years:...
(1651–1735) - Jean-François Lalouette (1651–1728) (:de:Jean-François Lalouette)
- David PetersenDavid Petersen (composer)David Petersen was a violinist and composer of north German origin active in the Netherlands ....
(c. 1651–1737) - Ferdinand Tobias RichterFerdinand Tobias RichterFerdinand Tobias Richter was anAustrian Baroque composer and organist.From 1675 to 1679 Richter served as organist at Heiligenkreuz Abbey in southern Austria. In 1683 he moved to Vienna to become court and chamber organist at the imperial court. In 1690 he was named first organist in the court...
(1651–1711) - William TurnerWilliam Turner (composer)William Turner was a composer and countertenor of the Baroque era. A contemporary of John Blow and Henry Purcell, he is best remembered for his verse anthems, of which over forty survive...
(1651–1740) - Johann Philipp FörtschJohann Philipp FörtschJohann Philipp Förtsch was a German baroque composer, statesman and doctor.-Life:Förtsch was born in Wertheim and possibly received his musical education from Johann Philipp Krieger. Moving to Hamburg in 1674 to write librettos he then became in the 1680s one of the main composers in the heyday of...
(1652–1732) - Romanus Weichlein (1652–1706) (:de:Romanus Weichlein)
- John AbellJohn AbellJohn Abell was a Scottish countertenor, composer and lutenist.Born in London, Abell became a member of the Chapel Royal in 1679. During the Glorious Revolution of 1688 he fled to continental Europe, where he won fame and wealth by his singing...
(1653–after 1724) - Arcangelo CorelliArcangelo CorelliArcangelo Corelli was an Italian violinist and composer of Baroque music.-Biography:Corelli was born at Fusignano, in the current-day province of Ravenna, although at the time it was in the province of Ferrara. Little is known about his early life...
(1653–1713) - Georg MuffatGeorg Muffat-Life:He was born in Megève, Savoy, , and of Scottish descent. He studied in Paris with Jean Baptiste Lully between 1663 and 1669, then became an organist in Molsheim and Sélestat. Later, he studied law in Ingolstadt, afterwards settling in Vienna...
(1653–1704) - Johann PachelbelJohann PachelbelJohann Pachelbel was a German Baroque composer, organist and teacher, who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most...
(1653–1706) - Carlo Francesco PollaroloCarlo Francesco PollaroloCarlo Francesco Pollarolo was an Italian composer, chiefly of operas. Born into a musical family, he became the cathedral organist of his home town of Brescia. In the 1680s he began composing operas for performance in nearby Venice. He wrote a total of 85 of them as well as 13 oratorios...
(c. 1653–1723) - Johann Christoph RotheJohann Christoph RotheJohann Christoph Rothe was a German baroque composer.According to Ernst Ludwig Gerber, the court organist at Sondershausen in the time of Rothe's sons and grandsons, Rothe was born in Rosswein, Meissen, where his father was kapellmeister in Roßwein and who gave him his early training...
(1653–1700) - Agostino SteffaniAgostino SteffaniAgostino Steffani was an Italian ecclesiastic, diplomat and composer.-Biography:Steffani was born at Castelfranco Veneto. At a very early age he was admitted as a chorister at San Marco, Venice...
(1653–1728) - Marc'Antonio ZianiMarc'Antonio ZianiMarc'Antonio Ziani was an Italian composer in Vienna.Marc'Antonio was born in Venice. He probably studied with his uncle, the organist Pietro Andrea Ziani. From 1686 to 1691 Ziani was maestro di cappella to Duke Ferdinando Carlo di Gonzaga in Mantua, but simultaneously developed his career as an...
(c. 1653–1715) - Pietro Antonio FioccoPietro Antonio FioccoPietro Antonio Fiocco was an Italian Baroque composer.-Life:Pietro Antonio Fiocco was born in Venice...
(1654–1714) - Servaes de KoninckServaes de KoninckServaes de Koninck, or Servaes de Konink, Servaas de Koninck or Servaas de Konink was a baroque composer from the Netherlands, of motets, Dutch songs, chamber and incidental music, French airs and Italian cantatas....
(c. 1654–c. 1701) - Christian Liebe (1654–1708) (:de:Christian Liebe)
- Vincent LübeckVincent LübeckVincent Lübeck was a German composer and organist. He was born in Padingbüttel and worked as organist and composer at Stade's St. Cosmae et Damiani and Hamburg's famous St. Nikolai , where he played one of the largest contemporary organs...
(1654–1740) - Pablo Nassarre (c. 1654–c. 1730) (:es:Pablo Nasarre)
- Ludovico RoncalliLudovico RoncalliCount Ludovico Roncalli , or simply Count Ludovico, was an Italian nobleman who published a collection of suites for five-course baroque guitar, Capricci armonici sopra la chitarra spagnola , in 1692. This was transcribed to modern notation and arranged for the six-string guitar by Oscar...
(1654–1713) - Sébastien de BrossardSébastien de BrossardSébastien de Brossard was a French music theorist.Brossard was born in Dompierre, Orne. After studying philosophy and theology at Caen, he studied music and established himself in Paris in 1678 and remained there until 1687. He briefly was the private tutor of the young son of Nicolas-Joseph...
(1655–1730) - Ruggiero Fedeli (c. 1655–1722) (http://www.operone.de/komponist/fedeli.html)
- Juan Serqueira de Lima (c. 1655?–c. 1726)
- Johann Caspar Ferdinand FischerJohann Caspar Ferdinand FischerJohann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer was a German Baroque composer...
(1656–1746) - Marin MaraisMarin MaraisMarin Marais was a French composer and viol player. He studied composition with Jean-Baptiste Lully, often conducting his operas, and with master of the bass viol Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe for 6 months. He was hired as a musician in 1676 to the royal court of Versailles...
(1656–1728) - Jean-Baptiste MoreauJean-Baptiste MoreauJean-Baptiste Moreau was a French composer of the baroque period. He served as the master of music at the court of Louis XIV. His compositional output includes several motets and music for the theatre.-Life and career:...
(1656–1733) - James PaisibleJacques PaisibleJacques Paisible , also known as James Peasable or James Paisible, was a French baroque composer and recorder virtuoso who lived and worked in London for about forty years....
, or Jacques Paisible (c. 1656–1721) - Georg ReutterGeorg ReutterGeorg Reutter was an Austrian organist, theorbo player and composer.- Biography :Reutter was born in Vienna and became a pupil of Johann Caspar Kerll, whom he later succeeded as organist at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, in 1686. In 1695 he spent some time in Italy...
(1656–1738) - Thomas Tudway (c. 1656–1726) (http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/27/101027798)
- Johann Paul von WesthoffJohann Paul von WesthoffJohann Paul von Westhoff was a German Baroque composer and violinist. One of the most important exponents of the Dresden violin school, he was among the highest ranked violinists of his day, and composed some of the earliest known music for solo violin...
(1656–1705) - Philipp Heinrich ErlebachPhilipp Heinrich ErlebachPhilipp Heinrich Erlebach was a German Baroque composer.- Life :...
(1657–1714) - Michel-Richard de Lalande, or Delalande (1657–1726)
- Gaetano GrecoGaetano Greco- External links :...
(c. 1657–c. 1728) - Giuseppe Ottavio PitoniGiuseppe Ottavio PitoniGiuseppe Ottavio Pitoni was an organist and composer born in Rieti, Perugia, Italy. He became one of the leading musicians in Rome during the late Baroque era, the first half of the 18th century.-Life:...
(1657–1743) - Damian Stachowicz (1658–1699) (:pl:Damian Stachowicz)
- Giuseppe TorelliGiuseppe TorelliGiuseppe Torelli was an Italian violist, violinist, teacher, and composer.Torelli is most remembered for his contributions to the development of the instrumental concerto Giuseppe Torelli (April 22, 1658 – February 8, 1709) was an Italian violist, violinist, teacher, and composer.Torelli is most...
(1658–1709) - Maria Francesca NascinbeniMaria Francesca NascinbeniMaria Francesca Nascinbeni was an Italian composer. She studied in Ancona, Italy, with Augustinian monk Scipio Lazzarini. At age sixteen she published two volumes of music including songs, canzonas, madrigals and motets for organ and one, two and three voices. All that is known of her life is...
(born 1658; fl. 1674) - Sybrandus van Noordt (1659–1705) (http://www.saladelcembalo.org/docs/sybrandus_van-noordt.htm)
- Henry PurcellHenry PurcellHenry Purcell – 21 November 1695), was an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music. Although Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, his legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music...
(1659–1695) - Francesco Antonio PistocchiFrancesco Antonio PistocchiFrancesco Antonio Mamiliano Pistocchi nicknamed Pistocchino was an Italian singer, composer and librettist.Pistocchino was born in Palermo. He was a boy soprano prodigy, and later made his career as a castrato. From 1696 to 1700 he was maestro di cappella for the Duke of Ansbach. After 1700 he...
(1659–1726) - Theodor Schwartzkopff (1659–1732) (http://www.klassika.info/Komponisten/Schwartzkopff_Theodor/index.html)
- Antonio VeraciniAntonio VeraciniAntonio Veracini was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era.Antonio Veracini was born in Florence, Italy...
(1659–1745) - Henrico AlbicastroGiovanni Henrico AlbicastroGiovanni Henrico Albicastro was the pseudonym of Johann Heinrich von Weissenburg , a talented amateur musician who published his compositions pseudonymously. Albicastro came from the village of Bieswangen, near Pappenheim in central Bavaria, not far from the village of Weissenburg...
, or Johann Heinrich von Weissenburg (c. 1660–after 1730) - Rosa Giacinta BadallaRosa Giacinta BadallaRosa Giacinta Badalla was an Italian composer and Benedictine nun. The first record of her is in the lists of the monastery of Saint Radegonda in Milan from 1678...
(c. 1660–c. 1710) - Francesco Ballaroti (c. 1660–1712) (http://operabaroque.fr/BALLAROTI.htm)
- Bartolomeo Bernardi (c. 1660–1732) (:de:Bartolomeo Bernardi)
- André CampraAndré CampraAndré Campra was a French composer and conductor.Campra was one of the leading French opera composers in the period between Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau. He wrote several tragédies en musique, but his chief claim to fame is as the creator of a new genre, opéra-ballet...
(1660–1744) - Jerónimo de CarriónJerónimo de CarriónJerónimo de Carrión was a Spanish baroque composer.Carrión was born in Segovia and was a choirboy at Segovia Cathedral. From 1687 to 1690 he was maestro de capilla in Mondoñedo and then, after a year at Ourense, from 1692 to his death in 1721 at Segovia Cathedral, taking up the position formerly...
(1660–1721) - Sebastián DurónSebastián Durón-Life and career:Sebastian Duron was, with Antonio de Literes, the greatest Spanish composer of stage music of his time. He was born in Brihuega, Guadalajara, Spain, and was taught by his brother Diego Duron, also a composer...
(1660–1716) - Gottfried FingerGottfried FingerGottfried Finger , also Godfrey Finger, was a Moravian Baroque composer. Many of his compositions were for the viol; he also wrote operas...
(1660–1730) - Johann Joseph Fux (1660–1741)
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klingenberg (c. 1660?–1720)
- Johann KuhnauJohann KuhnauJohann Kuhnau was a German composer, organist and harpsichordist.-Biography :Kuhnau was born in Geising, Saxony. He grew up in a religious Lutheran family. At age nine, he auditioned successfully for the Kreuzschule in Dresden...
(1660–1722) - Johann Sigismund KusserJohann KusserJohann Sigismund Kusser or Cousser was a German composer who settled in Ireland.-Life:...
(1660–1727) - Gaspard Le RouxGaspard Le RouxGaspard Le Roux was a French harpsichordist active in Paris at the beginning of the 18th century. Little is known of his life; only by one quotation in a list of professors considered in Paris, and a single collection of suites for one and two harpsichords which appeared in 1705: it is one of the...
(c. 1660–1707) - Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe le fils (the younger) (c. 1660–c. 1720) (http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/cds/ads6042.htm)
- Alessandro ScarlattiAlessandro ScarlattiAlessandro Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.-Life:Scarlatti was born in...
(1660–1725) - Johannes SchenckJohannes SchenckJohannes Schenck was a Dutch musician and composer.Schenck was born in Amsterdam in 1660 where he was baptised on 3 June into the Reformed Church...
(1660–c. 1712) - Christian Friedrich WittChristian Friedrich WittChristian Friedrich Witt, or Witte was a German composer, music editor and teacher.-Biography:He was born in Altenburg, where his father, Johann Ernst Witt, was court organist; he had come from Denmark around 1650 when a Danish princess married into the house of Saxe-Altenburg...
(c. 1660–1717) - Ignazio PolliceIgnazio PolliceIgnazio Pollice was a Sicilian composer of the Baroque era, from Palermo. He is most famous for his L'innocenza pentita: o vero la Santa Rosalia, which opened the just-built Teatro Santa Cecilia in Palermo in 1693....
or Pulici (fl. 1684–1705) - Georg BöhmGeorg BöhmGeorg Böhm was a German Baroque organist and composer. He is notable for his development of the chorale partita and for his influence on the young J. S. Bach.-Life:Böhm was born in 1661 in Hohenkirchen, near Ohrdruf...
(1661–1733) - Henri DesmarestHenri DesmaretsHenri Desmarets was a French composer of the Baroque period primarily known for his stage works, although he also composed sacred music as well as secular cantatas, songs and instrumental works....
(1661–1741) - Francesco GaspariniFrancesco GaspariniFrancesco Gasparini was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher whose works were performed throughout Italy, and also on occasion in Germany and England....
(1661–1727) - Giacomo Antonio PertiGiacomo Antonio PertiGiacomo Antonio Perti was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. He was mainly active at Bologna, where he was Maestro di Cappella for sixty years...
(1661–1756) - Giovanni Lorenzo LulierGiovanni Lorenzo LulierGiovanni Lorenzo Lulier, nicknamed Giovannino del Violone was a Baroque Italian composer, cellist and trombone player of Spanish descent.-Life:...
(c. 1662?–1700) - Angiola Teresa Moratori ScanabecchiAngiola Teresa Moratori ScanabecchiAngiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi was an Italian composer and painter.-Biography:Angiola Moratori was born in Bologna, the daughter of a Bolognese physician, and married Tomaso Scanabecchi Monetta. She studied instrumental performance, singing and painting and composed oratorios, the scores of...
(1662–1708) - Pirro Capacelli AlbergatiPirro AlbergatiCount Pirro Capacelli Albergati was an Italian aristocrat, and amateur composer.Albergati was born in Bologna...
(1663–1735) - Johann Nicolaus Hanff (1663–1711)
- Franz Xaver MurschhauserFranz Xaver MurschhauserFranz Xaver Murschhauser was a German composer and theorist.He was born in Saverne, Alsace, but he is first mentioned as a singer and instrumentalist at St Peter’s School in Munich, in 1676. He studied music with the Kantor, Siegmund Auer and, from 1683 to his death in 1693, Johann Caspar Kerll...
(1663–1738) - Nicolas SiretNicolas SiretNicolas Siret was a French baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was born and died in Troyes, France, where he worked as organist in the Church of Saint Jean and the Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul...
(1663–1754) - Tomaso Antonio VitaliTomaso Antonio VitaliTomaso Antonio Vitali was an Italian composer and violinist from Bologna, the eldest son of Giovanni Battista Vitali...
(1663-1745) - Friedrich Wilhelm ZachauFriedrich Wilhelm ZachauFriedrich Wilhelm Zachow or Zachau was a German musician and composer.-Life:Zachow probably received his training from his father, the violinist Heinrich Zachow, one of Leipzig's town musicians. as organist of Halle's Church of Our Lady in 1684, succeeding Samuel Ebart...
, or Zachow (1663–1712) - Nicolas BernierNicolas BernierNicolas Bernier was a French composer.-Biography:He was born in Mantes-sur-Seine , the son of Rémy Bernier and Marguerite Bauly. He studied with Antonio Caldara and is known for an Italian-influenced style. After Marc-Antoine Charpentier he is probably the most Italian-influenced French composer...
(1664–1734) - Georg Dietrich LeydingGeorg Dietrich LeydingGeorg Dietrich Leyding was a German composer and organist associated with the North German school.Born in Bücken, close to Nienburg, his father was a riding master in the French lifeguards...
, or Leiding (1664–1710) - Louis LullyLouis LullyLouis Lully was a French musician and the eldest son of Jean-Baptiste Lully.Nearly disinherited by his father following dissolute behaviour and imprisonment, Louis did not have the brilliant career anticipated for him, not only because of his behaviour but also for lack of talent...
(1664–1734) - Michele Mascitti (c. 1664–1760) (:it:Michele Mascitti)
- Georg ÖsterreichGeorg ÖsterreichGeorg Österreich was a German Baroque composer and collector. He is regarded as the founder of the so-called Sämmlung Bokemeyer which is now housed in the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin and is considered one of the most important music collections of the late 17th and early 18th century.The son of a...
(1664–1735) - Johann Christoph PezJohann Christoph PezJohann Christoph Pez , also Petz, was a musician, Kapellmeister and composer.- Life :Pez was born in Munich. From 1676, he was the tower watchman and later the Choir director at the Church of Saint Peter in Munich...
(1664–1716) - Daniel PurcellDaniel PurcellDaniel Purcell was an English composer, the younger brother of Henry Purcell.As a teenager, Daniel Purcell joined the choir of the Chapel Royal, and in his mid-twenties he became organist of Magdalen College, Oxford. He began to compose while at Oxford, but in 1695 he moved to London to compose...
(1664–1717) - Johann Speth (1664–after 1719)
- Filippo AmadeiFilippo AmadeiFilippo Amadei was an Italian composer from Reggio Emilia, who was active in Rome and London.He appears to have worked as composer of cantatas oratorios and as a cellist for Cardinal Ottoboni from 1690 to 1711, the year of his oratorio Teodosio il giovane , then again 1723-1729.From 1719-1722 he...
, "Pippo del Violoncello" (c. 1665–c. 1725) - Benedikt Anton AufschnaiterBenedikt Anton AufschnaiterBenedikt Anton Aufschnaiter was an Austrian Baroque composer.Aufschnaiter got much of his musical education in Vienna, where he lived for several years. Later he got a post at the band near to the emperor's court...
(1665–1742) - Nicolaus BruhnsNicolaus BruhnsNicolaus Bruhns was a German organist, violinist, and composer. He was one of the most prominent organists and composers of his generation.-Life:...
(1665–1697) - Grzegorz Gerwazy GorczyckiGrzegorz Gerwazy GorczyckiGrzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki was a Polish Baroque composer.-Life:Born in Rossberg near Beuthen in Silesia around 1665, little is known of his early life...
(c. 1665/1667–1734) - Élisabeth Jacquet de La GuerreÉlisabeth Jacquet de La GuerreÉlisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre was a French musician, harpsichordist and composer.-Life and works:...
(1665–1729) - Jean-Baptiste Lully filsJean-Baptiste Lully filsJean-Baptiste Lully fils was a French musician and the second son of the composer Jean-Baptiste Lully. He was also known as Baptiste Lully, Lully fils, and Monsieur Baptiste. He born and died in Paris....
(the younger) (1665–1743) - Giovanni Maria RuggieriGiovanni Maria RuggieriGiovanni Maria Ruggieri or Ruggeriwas a Baroque composer from Italy. His dates of birth and death are uncertain, but he may have been born about 1665 in Verona and died around 1725. He is known to have flourished from 1689–1720.-Life:...
(c. 1665–c. 1725) - José de Torres y Martínez BravoJosé de TorresJosé de Torres y Martínez Bravo was a Spanish composer, organist, music theorist and music publisher.Torres was born in Madrid, where he served as organist of the capilla real from 1697. With the arrival of the Bourbons, Torres was expelled from the capilla, but avoided exile and was rehabilitated...
(1665–1738) - Francisco VallsFrancisco VallsFrancisco Valls was a Spanish composer, theorist and maestro de capilla. Among his most known works are the mass Missa Scala Aretina and tract Mapa Armónico Práctico.-Life:...
(1665–1747) - Gaetano VenezianoGaetano VenezianoGaetano Veneziano was an Italian composer. His son Giovanni Veneziano was also a composer.Veneziano senior studied with Francesco Provenzale at the Conservatorio Santa Maria di Loreto in Naples in 1666 where in 1684 he became maestro di cappella...
(1665–1716) (:it:Gaetano Veneziano) - Domenico Zanatta (c. 1665–1748) (http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_OJUaSLS9yUC&pg=PA197&lpg=PA197&dq=Domenico+Zanatta+1748&source=bl&ots=BTnbZzKZO5&sig=PhHUErQU2KsY2O16CTqUcI1oT9k&hl=en&ei=PaBHTrSSHMmnhAfU2NmTBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Domenico%20Zanatta%201748&f=false)
- Attilio AriostiAttilio AriostiAttilio Malachia Ariosti was an Italian composer in the Baroque style, born in Bologna. He produced more than 30 operas and oratorios, numerous cantatas and instrumental works.-Life:He was born into the middle class...
(1666–1729) - Johann Heinrich ButtstettJohann Heinrich ButtstettJohann Heinrich Buttstett was a German Baroque organist and composer...
(1666–1727) - Alphonse d'Eve (1666–1727) (http://www.requiemsurvey.org/composers.php?id=293)
- Michelangelo Faggioli (1666–1733) (http://operabaroque.fr/FAGGIOLI.htm)
- Jean-Féry RebelJean-Féry RebelJean-Féry Rebel was an innovative French Baroque composer and violinist.-Biography:Rebel , a son of the singer Jean Rebel, a tenor in Louis XIV's private chapel, was a child violin prodigy. He became, at the age of eight, one of his father's most famous musical offspring. Later, he was a student...
(1666–1747) - Francesco ScarlattiFrancesco ScarlattiFrancesco Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer and musician and brother of the better known Alessandro Scarlatti....
(1666–c. 1741) - Bernardo Tonini (c. 1666–after 1727)
- Georg Bronner (1667–1720) (http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Bronner-Georg.htm)
- Antonio LottiAntonio LottiAntonio Lotti was an Italian composer of classical music.Lotti was born in Venice, although his father Matteo was Kapellmeister at Hanover at the time. In 1682, Lotti began studying with Lodovico Fuga and Giovanni Legrenzi, both of whom were employed at St Mark's Basilica, Venice's principal church...
(c. 1667–1740) - Jean-Louis LullyJean-Louis LullyJean-Louis Lully was a French musician and composer. He was born in Paris, the youngest son of Jean-Baptiste Lully....
(1667–1688) - Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667–1737)
- Johann Christoph PepuschJohann Christoph PepuschJohann Christoph Pepusch , also known as John Christopher Pepusch and Dr Pepusch, was a German-born composer who spent most of his working life in England....
(1667–1752) - François CouperinFrançois CouperinFrançois Couperin was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as Couperin le Grand to distinguish him from other members of the musically talented Couperin family.-Life:Couperin was born in Paris...
(1668–1733) - John Eccles (1668–1735)
- Jean GillesJean Gilles (Composer)Jean Gilles was a French composer, born at Tarascon.-Biography:After receiving his musical training as a choirboy at the Cathedral of Saint-Sauveur at Aix-en-Provence, he succeeded his teacher Guillaume Poitevin as music master there...
(1668–1705) - Giorgio Gentili (c. 1668–after 1731) (:de:Giorgio Gentili)
- Georg von BertouchGeorg von BertouchGeorg von Bertouch was a German-born Baroque composer and military officer who dwelt during most of his adult life in Norway.-Biography:...
(1668–1743) - Johann Nicolaus BachJohann Nicolaus BachJohann Nicolaus Bach was a German composer of the Baroque period.Johann Nicolaus was the eldest son of Johann Christoph Bach and the second cousin of Johann Sebastian Bach. He was educated at the University of Jena, where he later became organist...
(1669–1753) - Louis MarchandLouis MarchandLouis Marchand was a French Baroque organist, harpsichordist, and composer. Born into an organist's family, Marchand was a child prodigy and quickly established himself as one of the best known French virtuosi of his time. He worked as organist of numerous churches and, for a few years, at the...
(1669–1732) - Alessandro MarcelloAlessandro MarcelloAlessandro Marcello was an Italian nobleman, poet, philosopher, mathematician and musician.-Biography:...
(1669–1747) - Andreas Armsdorff (1670–1699)
- Giovanni Battista BononciniGiovanni Battista BononciniGiovanni Battista Bononcini was an Italian Baroque composer and cellist, one of a family of string players and composers. His father, Giovanni Maria Bononcini , was a violinist and a composer.-Biography:...
(1670–1747) - Giuseppe Boniventi (1670/1673–1727) (:it:Giuseppe Boniventi, http://www.operone.de/komponist/boniventi.html)
- Christian Ludwig BoxbergChristian Ludwig BoxbergChristian Ludwig Boxberg was a German composer and organist.From 1692-1700 Boxberg was active as an opera composer with his operas being performed Leipzig, Wolfenbüttel, Kassel und Ansbach. From 1702-1729 he was Kapellmeister at the Church of St...
(1670–1729) - Arnold BrunckhorstArnold BrunckhorstArnold Matthias Brunckhorst was a German organist and composer.He was born in Celle or Wietzendorf. Beginning in 1693, he served as an organist at St. Andreas in Hildesheim. In 1697, he assumed the organist's post at the Stadtkirche in Celle...
(1670–1725) - Louis de Caix d'HerveloisLouis de Caix d'HerveloisLouis de Caix d'Hervelois was a composer of chamber music.-Biography:Caix d'Hervelois wrote music almost exclusively for the viol. Most of his other works exist as transcriptions from his viol music. A native of the north of France, almost nothing is known of his life...
(c. 1670–c. 1760) - Antonio CaldaraAntonio CaldaraAntonio Caldara was an Italian Baroque composer.Caldara was born in Venice , the son of a violinist. He became a chorister at St Mark's in Venice, where he learned several instruments, probably under the instruction of Giovanni Legrenzi...
(1670/1671–1736) - Turlough Ó Carolan (1670–1738)
- Gaspard CorretteGaspard CorretteGaspard Corrette was a French composer and organist.He was born around 1671, probably in Rouen where he was organist for the church of St-Herbland. In approximately 1720 he moved to Paris. The exact date of his death is not known...
(c. 1670–before 1733) - Charles DieupartCharles DieupartCharles Dieupart was a French harpsichordist, violinist, and composer. Although he was known as Charles to his contemporaries, his real name may have been François. He was most probably born in Paris, but spent much of his life in London, where he settled sometime after 1702/3...
(c. 1670–c. 1740) - Henry EcclesHenry Eccles (composer)Henry Eccles was an English composer.-Early life:He was the son of John Eccles and Sally Eccles and the grandson of Solomon Eccles.-Accomplishments:...
(1670–1742) - David KellnerDavid KellnerDavid Kellner was a German composer of the baroque period and a contemporary of Bach....
(1670–1748) - Richard LeveridgeRichard LeveridgeRichard Leveridge was an English bass singer of the London stage and a composer of baroque music, including many popular songs....
(1670–1758) - Jean-Baptiste Volumier, or Woulmyer (1670–1728) (:de:Jean-Baptiste Volumier)
- Johann Hugo von Wilderer (1670/1671–1724) (:de:Johann Hugo von Wilderer)
- Tomaso AlbinoniTomaso AlbinoniTomaso Giovanni Albinoni was an Italian Baroque composer. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, such as the concertos, some of which are regularly recorded.-Biography:Born in Venice, Republic of Venice, to Antonio Albinoni, a...
(1671–1751) - Giuseppe AldrovandiniGiuseppe AldrovandiniGiuseppe Antonio Vincenzo Aldrovandini was an Italian Baroque composer. He is credited with writing over twenty operas and oratorios, including the 1696 opera Dafni, as well as many other instrumental compositions and arias.-External links:...
(1671–1707) - Azzolino della CiajaAzzolino Bernardino della CiajaAzzolino Bernardino della Ciaja was an Italian organist, harpsichordist, composer and organ builder.-Life:...
, or della Ciaia (1671–1755) - Antoine ForquerayAntoine ForquerayAntoine Forqueray was a French composer and virtuoso of the viola da gamba.Forqueray, born in Paris, was the first in a line of composers who included his brother Michel and his sons Jean-Baptiste and Nicolas Gilles...
(1671–1745) - Charles-Hubert GervaisCharles-Hubert GervaisCharles-Hubert Gervais was a French composer of the Baroque era. The son of a valet to King Louis XIV's brother, Monsieur, Gervais was born at the Palais Royal in Paris and probably educated by Monsieur's musical intendants, Jean Granouillet de Sablières and Charles Lalouette. He worked as a...
(1671–1744) - Robert Valentine, also known as Roberto Valentino (c. 1671–1747) (:it:Robert Valentine)
- Carlo Agostino BadiaCarlo Agostino BadiaCarlo Agostino Badia was an Italian composer best known for his operas.Badia was born in Verona and around 1697 moved to Vienna, where many of his operas were premiered...
(1672–1738) - Francesco Antonio BonportiFrancesco Antonio BonportiFrancesco Antonio Bonporti was an Italian priest and amateur composer.He was born in Trento. In 1691, he was admitted in the Collegium Germanicum in Rome, where he studied theology...
(1672–1749) - André Cardinal DestouchesAndré Cardinal DestouchesAndré Cardinal Destouches was a French composer best known for the opéra-ballet Les élémens....
(1672–1749) - Nicolas de GrignyNicolas de GrignyNicolas de Grigny was a French organist and composer. He died young and left behind a single collection of organ music, which together with the work of François Couperin, represents the pinnacle of French Baroque organ tradition.-Life:Nicolas de Grigny was born in 1672 in Reims in the parish of...
(1672–1703) - Francesco ManciniFrancesco Mancini (composer)Francesco Mancini was an Italian composer from Napoli.-Biography:He was an important teacher and managed to obtain his greatest duty during Alessandro Scarlatti's absence from Neapolitan court, between 1702 and 1708...
(1672–1737) - Georg Caspar SchürmannGeorg Caspar SchürmannGeorg Caspar Schürmann was a German Baroque composer. His name also appears as Schurmann and in Hochdeutsch as Scheuermann.-Life:...
(1672/1673–1751) - Petrus Hercules Brehy, or Pierre-Hercule Bréhy (1673–1737) (http://alamirefoundation.org/en/publications/petrus-hercules-brehy-motetten-selectie-motets-selection)
- Antonio de LiteresAntonio de LiteresAntonio de Literes was a Spanish composer of zarzuelas, a type of performance that mixes spoken word, song and dance...
(1673–1747) - Santiago de MurciaSantiago de MurciaSantiago de Murcia , was a Spanish guitarist and composer.-Biography:Until new research was published in 2008, few details about the life of Santiago de Murcia were known. However it is now known that he was born in Madrid and that his parents were Juan de Murcia and Magdalena Hernandez...
(1673–1739) - Jeremiah ClarkeJeremiah ClarkeJeremiah Clarke was an English baroque composer and organist.Thought to have been born in London around 1674, Clarke was a pupil of John Blow at St Paul's Cathedral. He later became organist at the Chapel Royal...
(c. 1674–1707) - Reinhard KeiserReinhard KeiserReinhard Keiser was a popular German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas, and in 1745 Johann Adolph Scheibe considered him an equal to Johann Kuhnau, George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann , but his work was largely forgotten for many...
(1674–1739) - Pierre DumagePierre DumagePierre Dumage was a French Baroque organist and composer. His first music teacher was most likely his father, organist of the Beauvais Cathedral. At some point during his youth Dumage moved to Paris and studied under Louis Marchand...
(c. 1674–1751) - Jacques-Martin HotteterreJacques-Martin HotteterreJacques-Martin Hotteterre , also known as Jacques Martin or Jacques Hotteterre, was a French composer and flautist. Jacques-Martin Hotteterre was the most celebrated of a family of wind instrument makers and wind performers.-Biography:Jacques-Martin Hotteterre was born in Paris, the son of Martin...
(1674–1763) - Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco (1675–1742)
- Michel de La BarreMichel de la BarreMichel de la Barre was a French composer and renowned flautist known as being the first person to publish solo flute music...
(c. 1675–1745) - Louis de La CosteLouis de La CosteLouis de La Coste was a French composer of the Baroque era. He was a singer then chorus master and leader of the orchestra at the Paris Opéra...
, or Lacoste (c. 1675–c. 1750) - Pietro Paolo Laurenti (1675–1719) (:it:Pietro Paolo Laurenti)
- Giovanni PortaGiovanni PortaGiovanni Porta was an Italian opera composer.One of the masters of early 18th-century opera and one of the leading Venetian musicians, Porta made his way from Rome, to Vicenza, to Verona, then London where his opera Numitore was performed in 1720 by the Royal Academy of Music , and eventually back...
(c. 1675–1755) - Obadiah ShuttleworthObadiah ShuttleworthObadiah Shuttleworth , English composer, violinist and organist, was the son of Thomas Shuttleworth of Spitalfields in London. Thomas was a professional music copyist and harpsichord player.The exact date of Obadiah's birth is uncertain....
(c. 1675?–1734) - Francesco Venturini (c. 1675–1745) (:de:Francesco Venturini)
- Johann Bernhard BachJohann Bernhard BachJohann Bernhard Bach was a German composer, and second cousin of J. S. Bach. He was born in Erfurt, and his early musical education was by his father, Johann Aegidus Bach. He took up his position as organist in Erfurt in 1695, and then took a similar position in Magdeburg...
(1676–1749) - Louis-Nicolas ClérambaultLouis-Nicolas ClérambaultLouis-Nicolas Clérambault was a French musician, best known as an organist and composer. He was born and died in Paris.-Biography:...
(1676–1749) - Giacomo FaccoGiacomo FaccoGiacomo Facco was an Italian Baroque violinist, conductor and composer. One of the most famous Italian composers of his day, he was completely forgotten until 1962, when his work was discovered by scholar Uberto Zanolli.-Biography:Facco was born in Marsango, a small settlement near Padua and...
(1676–1753) - Wolff Jakob LauffensteinerWolff Jakob LauffensteinerWolff Jakob Lauffensteiner was an eminent Austrian lutenist active in the Bavarian court where he spent much of his career in service to the Elector of Bavaria in Munich. Some of Lauffensteiner's compositions for lute have survived....
(1676–1754) - Giuseppe Maria OrlandiniGiuseppe Maria OrlandiniGiuseppe Maria Orlandini was an Italian baroque composer particularly known for his more than 40 operas and intermezzos...
(1676–1760) - John WeldonJohn Weldon (musician)John Weldon was an English composer.Born at Chichester in the south of England, he was educated at Eton, where he was a chorister, and later received musical instruction from Henry Purcell...
(1676–1736) - Johann Ludwig BachJohann Ludwig BachJohann Ludwig Bach was a composer and violinist.He was born in Thal. At the age of 22 he moved to Meiningen eventually being appointed cantor there, and later Kapellmeister...
(1677–1731) - Antonio Maria BononciniAntonio Maria BononciniAntonio Maria Bononcini was an Italian cellist and composer, the younger brother of the better-known Giovanni Battista Bononcini....
(1677–1726) - Giovanni Carlo Maria ClariGiovanni Carlo Maria ClariGiovanni Carlo Maria Clari was an Italian musical composer and maestro di cappella at Pistoia. He was born at Pisa. He gained his initial grounding in musical education from his father, a violinist originally from Rome who was employed in the service of the chapel of the Cavalieri di S...
(1677–1754) - Johann Wilhelm DreseJohann Wilhelm DreseJohann Wilhelm Drese was a German composer, son of Johann Samuel Drese, whom Johann Wilhelm succeeded as Kapellmeister at Weimar during the time J.S. Bach was active there....
(1677–1745) - Francesco Nicola FagoNicola FagoNicola Fago was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher.-Biography:Born in Taranto, he studied music at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini in Naples between 1693 and 1695. Between 1704 and 1708 he worked at the Conservatorio Sant´Onofrio...
(1677–1745) - Jean-Baptiste MorinJean-Baptiste Morin (composer)Jean-Baptiste Morin was a French composer and the "Ordinaire de la Musique" to Philippe, Duke of Orléans before and perhaps during his regency. 1719-1731 was Morin "Maître de musique" of Louise-Adélaïde of Orléans, daughter of the Duke, at the royal abbey of Chelles, near Paris.Morin was born in...
(1677–1745) - Christian PetzoldChristian PetzoldChristian Petzold was a German composer and organist. He was active primarily in Dresden, and achieved a high reputation during his lifetime, but his surviving works are few...
(1677–1733) - William CroftWilliam CroftWilliam Croft was an English composer and organist.Croft was born at the Manor House, Nether Ettington, Warwickshire. He was educated at the Chapel Royal, under the instruction of John Blow, and remained there until 1698. Two years after this departure, he became organist of St. Anne's Church, Soho...
(1678–1727) - Ferdinando Antonio Lazzari (1678–1754)
- Giovanni Antonio Piani, or Jean-Antoine Desplanes (1678–1760) (:de:Giovanni Antonio Piani)
- Antonio VivaldiAntonio VivaldiAntonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...
(1678–1741) - Manuel de ZumayaManuel de ZumayaManuel de Zumaya or Manuel de Sumaya was perhaps the most famous Mexican composer of the colonial period of New Spain. His music was the culmination of the Baroque style in the New World; of Spanish, French, Dutch, British, and Portuguese colonial composers, none stand out as much as Zumaya did...
(c. 1678–1755) - Georg Friedrich Kauffmann (1679–1735)
- Domenico SarroDomenico SarroDomenico Natale Sarro, also Sarri was an Italian composer.He studied at the Neapolitan conservatory of S. Onofrio. He composed extensively in the early 18th century. His opera Didone abbandonata, premiered on 1 February 1724 at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples, was the first setting of a major...
(1679–1744) - Pietro Filippo ScarlattiPietro Filippo ScarlattiPietro Filippo Scarlatti was an Italian composer, organist and choirmaster.He was born in Rome, the eldest of Alessandro Scarlatti's children and a brother of composer Domenico Scarlatti - began his musical career in 1705 as choirmaster of the cathedral of Urbino...
(1679–1750) - Johann Christian Schieferdecker (1679–1732) (:de:Johann Christian Schieferdecker)
- Jan Dismas ZelenkaJan Dismas ZelenkaJan Dismas Zelenka , baptised Jan Lukáš Zelenka and previously also known as Johann Dismas Zelenka, was the most important Czech Baroque composer, whose music was notably daring with outstanding harmonic invention and mastery of counterpoint.- Life :Zelenka was born in Louňovice pod Blaníkem, a small...
(1679–1745) - Toussaint Bertin de la DouéToussaint Bertin de la DouéToussaint Bertin de la Doué was a French composer of the Baroque era. He worked as an organist for the Theatines, as a musician for the Duc d'Orléans and as a violinist and harpsichordist at the Paris Opéra...
(c. 1680–1743) - William CorbettWilliam Corbett (composer)William Corbett was an English composer, violinist, and concert performer. The Director of New Theater from 1700, Corbett was appointed orchestra director of King's Theatre, The Haymarket in 1705 and became a member of the Royal Orchestra in 1709.In 1716, he was appointed Director of the King's...
(1680–1748) - Giuseppe Fedeli, or Joseph Saggione (c. 1680–c. 1745)
- Jean-Adam GuilainJean-Adam GuilainJean-Adam Guilain was a German organist and harpsichordist who was mostly active in Paris during the first half of the eighteenth century....
(c. 1680–after 1739) - Jean-Baptiste LoeilletJean-Baptiste Loeillet of LondonJean-Baptiste Loeillet of London , was a Flemish baroque composer as well as a performer on the recorder, flute, oboe, and harpsichord...
of London (1680–1730) - Françoise-Charlotte de Senneterre MénétouFrançoise-Charlotte de Senneterre MénétouFrançoise-Charlotte de Senneterre Ménétou was a French harpsichordist and composer.-Biography:Françoise-Charlotte Ménétou was born into an aristocratic family in 1679 of parents Henri François de Saint-Nectaire, Duc de La Ferte-Sennecterre , and Isabelle Gabrielle Marie Angélique de La...
(born 1680; fl. 1691) - Jean-Baptiste StuckJean-Baptiste StuckJean-Baptiste Stuck or "Batistin" was an Italian-French composer and cellist of the Baroque.Little is known of Stuck's early years. He was born at Livorno, came from a merchant family, and was the son of Giovanni-Giacomo Stuck and Barbera Hellerbeck. From 1702 he was in the service of Countess...
(1680–1755) - Emanuele d'AstorgaEmanuele d'AstorgaEmanuele d'Astorga was an Italian composer known mainly for his Stabat Mater.-Biography:...
(1681–1736) - Carl Heinrich BiberCarl Heinrich BiberCarl Heinrich Biber was a late Baroque violinist and composer.He was the sixth son of Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber. He got his first musical education from him. In 1704, he made a study trip to Venice and Rome, important centers of the music...
(1681–1749) - Francesco Bartolomeo ContiFrancesco Bartolomeo ContiFrancesco Bartolomeo Conti was an Italian composer and player of the mandolin and theorbo.Little is known about the biography of Conti. He was born in Florence, Italy. By 1700 he was already known as a theorbist not only in his native Florence, but also in other cities such as Ferrara and Milan...
(1681–1732) - Johann MatthesonJohann MatthesonJohann Mattheson was a German composer, writer, lexicographer, diplomat and music theorist.Mattheson was born and died in Hamburg. He was a close friend of George Frideric Handel, although he nearly killed him in a sudden quarrel, during a performance of Mattheson's opera Cleopatra in 1704...
(1681–1764) - Anne Danican PhilidorAnne Danican PhilidorAnne Danican Philidor is best remembered today for having founded the Concert Spirituel, an important series of public concerts held in the palace of the Tuileries from 1725 to 1791....
(1681–1728) - Giovanni Reali (c. 1681–after 1727)
- Georg Philipp TelemannGeorg Philipp TelemannGeorg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually...
(1681–1767) - Giuseppe ValentiniGiuseppe ValentiniGiuseppe Valentini , nicknamed Straccioncino , was an Italian violinist, painter, poet, and composer, though he is known chiefly as a composer of inventive instrumental music. He studied under Giovanni Battista Bononcini in Rome between 1692 and 1697...
(1681–1753) - Giacobbe CervettoGiacobbe CervettoGiacobbe Cervetto was an important cellist and composer of music for cello in 18th century England.Giacobbe Bassevi il Cervetto was born into a Jewish family in Livorno in 1682. He moved to London in 1739 and was a leading musical figure there for decades, an excellent cellist, and a dealer in...
(c. 1682–1783) - Jean-François DandrieuJean-François DandrieuJean-François Dandrieu was a French Baroque composer, harpsichordist and organist.He was born in Paris into a family of artists and musicians. A gifted and precocious child, he gave his first public performances when he was 5 years old, playing the harpsichord for Louis XIV, King of France, and...
(c. 1682–1738) - Jean-Joseph MouretJean-Joseph MouretJean-Joseph Mouret was a French composer whose dramatic works made him one of the leading exponents of Baroque music in his country...
(1682–1738) - Valentin RathgeberValentin RathgeberJohann Valentin Rathgeber was a German composer, organist and choirmaster of the Baroque Era.His father, an organist, gave him his first music lessons...
(1682–1750) - Pietro BaldassarePietro BaldassarePietro Baldassare or Baldassari was a Baroque composer, possibly born in Rome or Brescia, Italy about 1683.Baldassari was maestro di cappella at S Filippo Neri in Brescia from 1714 until about 1768. He was also maestro di cappella at S Clemente, Bresica until 1754. He died some time after 1768. ...
(c. 1683–after 1768) - John BastonJohn BastonJohn Baston, was an English Baroque composer, recorder player and cellist. He performed in his own ‘interval music’ concertos in London; several of these lively pieces were published as Six Concertos in Six Parts for Violins and Flutes ....
(born c. 1683; fl. 1708–1739) - Roque Ceruti (c. 1683–1760) (http://amusindias.free.fr/en/compositores/rceruti.php3)
- Christoph GraupnerChristoph GraupnerChristoph Graupner was a German harpsichordist and composer of high Baroque music who lived and worked at the same time as Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and George Frideric Handel.-Graupner's life:Born in Hartmannsdorf near Kirchberg in Saxony, Graupner received his first musical...
(1683–1760) - Johann David HeinichenJohann David HeinichenJohann David Heinichen was a German Baroque composer and music theorist who brought the musical genius of Venice to the court of Augustus the Strong in Dresden...
(1683–1729) - Jean-Philippe RameauJean-Philippe RameauJean-Philippe Rameau was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French composer for the harpsichord of his time, alongside François...
(1683–1764) - Giovanni Veneziano (1683–1742) (:it:Giovanni Veneziano)
- François d'AgincourtFrançois d'AgincourtFrançois d'Agincourt was a French harpsichordist, organist, and composer. He spent most of his life in Rouen, his native city, where he worked as organist of the Rouen Cathedral and of three smaller churches. Highly regarded during his lifetime, d'Agincourt was one of the organists of the royal...
(1684–1758) - François BouvardFrançois BouvardFrançois Bouvard was a French composer of the Baroque era. Originally from Lyon, Bouvard began his career as a singer at the Paris Opéra at the age of sixteen. When the quality of his voice deteriorated, he went to study in Rome and devoted himself to playing the violin and composition...
(c. 1684–1760) - Bohuslav Matěj ČernohorskýBohuslav Matej CernohorskýBohuslav Matěj Černohorský was a Czech composer, organist and teacher of the baroque era...
(1684–1742) - Francesco DuranteFrancesco DuranteFrancesco Durante was an Italian composer.He was born at Frattamaggiore, in the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, and at an early age he entered the Conservatorio dei poveri di Gesù Cristo, in Naples, where he received lessons from Gaetano Greco. Later he became a pupil of Alessandro Scarlatti at the...
(1684–1755) - Francesco ManfrediniFrancesco ManfrediniFrancesco Onofrio Manfredini was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and church musician.He was born at Pistoia to a trombonist. He studied violin with Giuseppe Torelli in Bologna, then a part of the Papal States, a leading figure in the development of the concerto grosso...
(1684–1762) - Johann Jacob de Neufville (1684–1712) (:de:Johann Jacob de Neufville)
- Johann Theodor Römhild, or Roemhildt (1684–1756) (:de:Johann Theodor Roemhildt)
- Johann Gottfried WaltherJohann Gottfried WaltherJohann Gottfried Walther was a German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque era.Walther was born at Erfurt...
(1684–1748)
- Giuseppe Matteo AlbertiGiuseppe Matteo AlbertiGiuseppe Matteo Alberti was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist.-Life:...
(1685–1751) - Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
(1685–1750) - François Campion (c. 1685–1747) (http://www.quadroframe.com/index.php?id=24)
- Louis-Antoine DornelLouis-Antoine DornelLouis-Antoine Dornel was a French composer, harpsichordist, organist and violinist, who lived in Paris.- Biography :Dornel was probably taught by the organist Nicolas Lebègue. He was appointed organist at the church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine-en-la-Cité in 1706, where he took over from François...
(c. 1685–1765) - Lodovico GiustiniLodovico GiustiniLodovico Giustini was an Italian composer and keyboard player of the late Baroque and early Classical eras. He was the first known composer ever to write music for the piano.-Life:...
(1685–1743) - George Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...
(1685–1759) - Václav Gunther Jacob (1685–1734) (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2010/Feb10/Jacob_su39712.htm)
- Jacques LoeilletJacques LoeilletJacques Loeillet was a Baroque-era composer and oboist. He was born in Ghent, Belgium, which was then part of Spanish Netherlands. He was the younger brother of Jean-Baptiste Loeillet. He composed works for oboe, violin and for string ensembles....
(1685–1748) - Roland MaraisRoland MaraisRoland Pierre Marais was a French viol player and composer, son of Marin Marais.His compositions are written in a style similar to his father's.-External links:*...
(c. 1685–c. 1750) - Wilhelm Hieronymus PachelbelWilhelm Hieronymus PachelbelWilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel was a German composer and organist, elder son of Johann Pachelbel.Born in Erfurt near Eisenach , Pachelbel studied with his father. The first printed reference to either Pachelbel is in Johann Mattheson's Ehrenpforte...
(c. 1685–1764) - Domenico ScarlattiDomenico ScarlattiGiuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...
(1685–1757) - Pietro Giuseppe Gaetano Boni (c. 1686–after 1741) (http://www.classicalwinds.com/page1/page7/Giovanni-Boni.html)
- Jean-Joseph FioccoJean-Joseph FioccoJean-Joseph Fiocco was a Flemish composer of the high and late Baroque period.His father was the Venetian composer Pietro Antonio Fiocco , and his brothers included the violinist Joseph-Hector...
(1686–1746) - Benedetto MarcelloBenedetto MarcelloBenedetto Marcello was a Venetian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher.-Life:...
(1686–1739) - Nicola PorporaNicola PorporaNicola Porpora was an Italian composer of Baroque operas and teacher of singing, whose most famous singing student was the castrato Farinelli. One of his other students was composer Matteo Capranica.-Biography:Porpora was born in Naples...
(1686–1768) - Giovanni Battista SomisGiovanni Battista SomisGiovanni Battista Somis was an Italian violinist and composer of the Baroque music era.He studied under Arcangelo Corelli between 1703 and 1706 or 1707...
(1686–1763) - Johann Adam BirkenstockJohann Adam BirkenstockJohann Adam Birkenstock was a German composer and violinist. He was regarded as one of the foremost violinists in his days.-Life:...
(1687–1733) - Henry CareyHenry Carey (writer)Henry Carey was an English poet, dramatist and song-writer. He is remembered as an anti-Walpolean satirist and also as a patriot. Several of his melodies continue to be sung today, and he was widely praised in the generation after his death...
(1687–1743) - Willem de FeschWillem de FeschWillem de Fesch was a virtuoso Dutch violone player and composer.The pupil of Karel Rosier, who was a Vice-Kapellmeister at Bonn, Willem later married his daughter, Maria Anna Rosier.De Fesch was active in Amsterdam between 1710 and 1725...
(1687–1761) - Johann Ernst GalliardJohann Ernst GalliardJohann Ernst Galliard was a German composer.Galliard was born in Celle, Germany to a French wig-maker. His first composition instruction began at age 15. Galliard studied composition under Farinelli, the director of music at the Court of Hanover, and Abbate Steffani. In addition to his composition...
(1687–1749) - Francesco GeminianiFrancesco Geminianithumb|230px|Francesco Geminiani.Francesco Saverio Geminiani was an Italian violinist, composer, and music theorist.-Biography:...
(1687–1762) - Johann Georg PisendelJohann Georg PisendelJohann Georg Pisendel was a German Baroque musician, violinist and composer who, for many years, led the Court Orchestra in Dresden, then the finest instrumental ensemble in Europe.-Biography:...
(1687–1755) - Jean Baptiste SenailléJean Baptiste SenailléJean Baptiste Senaillé was a French born Baroque composer and violin virtuoso. His father was member of Les Vingt-quatre Violons du Roi. Senaillé studied under Jean-Baptiste Anet, Giovanni Antonio Piani and in Italy under Tomaso Antonio Vitali, he imported Italian musical techniques and pieces...
(1687–1730) - Sylvius Leopold WeissSylvius Leopold WeissSilvius Leopold Weiss was a German composer and lutenist.Born in Grottkau near Breslau, the son of Johann Jacob Weiss, also a lutenist, he served at courts in Breslau, Rome, and Dresden, where he died...
(1687–1750) - Michele Falco (c. 1688–after 1732) (:it:Michele Falco)
- Johann Friedrich FaschJohann Friedrich FaschJohann Friedrich Fasch was a German violinist and composer.Fasch was born in Buttelstedt, was a choirboy in Weissenfels and studied under Johann Kuhnau at the famous St. Thomas School in Leipzig and later founded a Collegium Musicum in that city...
(1688–1758) - Jacob Klein (1688–1748) (http://editionwakelkamp.com/Frank/Klein/Artikel_E.htm)
- Jean-Baptiste Loeillet de Ghent (1688–1720)
- Thomas RoseingraveThomas RoseingraveThomas Roseingrave was an Irish musician and organist.-Early years:He was born at Winchester but spent his early years in Dublin, studying music with his father, Daniel Roseingrave. In 1707 he entered Trinity College but failed to complete his degree...
(1688–1766) - Domenico ZipoliDomenico ZipoliDomenico Zipoli was an Italian Baroque composer. He became a Jesuit in order to work in the Reductions of Paraguay where his musical expertise contributed to develop the natural musical talents of the Guaranis...
(1688–1726) - Jacques AubertJacques AubertJacques Aubert , also known as Jacques Aubert le Vieux , was a French composer and violinist....
(1689–1753) - William BabellWilliam BabellWilliam Babell was an English musician, composer and prolific arranger of vocal music for harpsichord.-Life:...
(c. 1689–1723) - Joseph Bodin de BoismortierJoseph Bodin de BoismortierJoseph Bodin de Boismortier was a French baroque composer of instrumental music, cantatas, opéra-ballets, and vocal music...
(1689–1755) - Jan Josef Ignác BrentnerJan Josef Ignác BrentnerJan Josef Ignác Brentner , was a Czech composer of the baroque era.- Biography :...
(1689–1742) - Pietro GnocchiPietro GnocchiPietro Gnocchi was an Italian composer, choir director, historian, and geographer of the late Baroque era, active mainly in Brescia, where he was choir director of Brescia Cathedral...
(1689–1775) - Francesco BarsantiFrancesco BarsantiFrancesco Barsanti was an Italian flautist, oboist and composer. He was born in the Tuscan city of Lucca but spent most of his career in London.- Biography :...
(1690–1772) - Jean Daniel Braun (c. 1690?–c. 1740) (:de:Jean Daniel Braun)
- Giuseppe Antonio BrescianelloGiuseppe Antonio BrescianelloGiuseppe Antonio Brescianello was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist.His name is mentioned the first time in a document from 1715 in which the Elector of Bavaria appointed him violinist in his court orchestra in Munich...
(c. 1690–1758) - Pierre-Gabriel BuffardinPierre-Gabriel BuffardinPierre-Gabriel Buffardin was a French flutist and composer of the late Baroque period. Born in Provence, Buffardin was a flute soloist at the court of the Elector of Saxony in Dresden from 1715 to 1749...
(1690–1768) - Fortunato ChelleriFortunato ChelleriFortunato Chelleri was a Baroque Kapellmeister and composer.- Biography :...
(1690–1757) - François Colin de BlamontFrançois Colin de BlamontFrançois Colin de Blamont was a French composer of the Baroque era.Born at Versailles as François Colin, he served as a royal musician and was eventually ennobled in 1750, his surname becoming Colin de Blamont. He was the protegé of Michel-Richard de Lalande and succeeded the latter as Master of...
(1690–1760) - Giovanni Antonio GiaiGiovanni Antonio GiayGiovanni Antonio Giay was an Italian composer. His compositional output includes 15 operas, 5 symphonies, and a significant amount of sacred music.-Life and career:...
, or Giay, Giaj (1690–1764) - Johann Tobias KrebsJohann Tobias KrebsJohann Tobias Krebs was a German organist and composer.Krebs was born near Weimar, and died in the same area. He is known as a student of Johann Gottfried Walther and Johann Sebastian Bach....
(1690–1762) - Gottlieb MuffatGottlieb MuffatGottlieb Theophil Muffat was an Austrian composer/organist and son of Georg Muffat. He studied with Johann Fux in Vienna from 1711 onward and was appointed court organist in 1717. He assisted in the performance of Fux's opera Costanza e fortezza in Prague...
(1690–1770) - Jacques-Christophe NaudotJacques-Christophe NaudotJacques-Christophe Naudot was a French composer, type-setter, and flutist. Little is known of his early life. He was married in 1719. Most of his compositions were published in Paris between 1726 and 1740. The poet Denesle wrote a book called "Syrinx, ou l'origine de la flutte"...
(c. 1690–1762) - Charles Theodore PachelbelCharles Theodore PachelbelCharles Theodore Pachelbel was a German composer, organist and harpsichordist of the late Baroque era...
(1690–1750) - Jean-Baptiste Quentin (c. 1690?–1742) (:de:Jean-Baptiste Quentin)
- Manuel José de QuirósManuel José de Quirós-Life:Born in Santiago de Guatemala, present day Antigua Guatemala, towards the end of the 17th century, Quirós had a religious education while pursuing his musical apprenticeship and reaching the level of a journeyman...
(c. 1690?–1765) - Gottfried Heinrich StölzelGottfried Heinrich StölzelGottfried Heinrich Stölzel was a prolific German composer.-Biography:Stölzel grew up in Schwarzenberg, Saxony in the Erzgebirge. From 1707 he was a student of theology in Leipzig, and of Melchior Hofmann, the musical director of the Neukirche. He studied, worked and composed in Breslau and Halle...
(1690–1749) - Francesco Maria VeraciniFrancesco Maria Veracinithumb|150px|Francesco Maria Veracini.Francesco Maria Veracini was an Italian composer and violinist, perhaps best known for his sets of violin sonatas.-Life:Francesco Maria Veracini led a turbulent life...
(1690–1768) - Leonardo VinciLeonardo VinciLeonardo Vinci was an Italian composer, best known for his operas.He was born at Strongoli and educated at Naples under Gaetano Greco in the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo. He first became known for his opere buffe in Neapolitan dialect in 1719; he also composed many opere serie...
(c. 1690–1730) - Robert WoodcockRobert WoodcockRobert Woodcock was an English marine painter, musician, and composer who lived during the Baroque period. He is notable for having published the earliest known flute concertos, and the earliest known English oboe concertos.Robert Woodcock Robert Woodcock (bap. October 9, 1690 – died April...
(c. 1690–1728) - Francesco FeoFrancesco FeoFrancesco Feo was an Italian composer, known chiefly for his operas. He was born and died in Naples, where most of his operas were premièred.-Life:...
(1691–1761) - Jan FrancisciJan FrancisciJan Francisci was an organist and composer born in Neusohl, Kingdom of Hungary . In 1709, he succeeded his father as cantor there before going to Vienna in 1722. He visited J.S. Bach in Leipzig in 1725. He worked as a church musician in until 1735, when he returned to Neusohl...
(1691–1758) - Conrad Friedrich HurlebuschConrad Friedrich HurlebuschConrad Friedrich Hurlebusch was a German/Dutch composer and organist.-Life:Hurlebusch was born in Braunschweig, Germany. He received his first education from his father Heinrich Lorenz Hurlebusch, an organist and composer...
(1691–1765) - Geminiano GiacomelliGeminiano GiacomelliGeminiano Giacomelli was an Italian composer.Giacomelli was born in Piacenza. In 1724 he was named to the post of Kapellmeister to the duke of Parma. Beginning with the first performance of his opera Ipermestra, in 1724, he became one of the most popular opera composers of his era...
or Jacomelli (1692–1740) - Giovanni Alberto RistoriGiovanni Alberto RistoriGiovanni Alberto Ristori was an Italian opera composer and conductor. He was the son of Tommaso Ristori, the leader of an opera troupe belonging to the King of Poland and Elector of Saxony August II the Strong...
(1692–1753) - Giuseppe TartiniGiuseppe TartiniGiuseppe Tartini was an Italian baroque composer and violinist.-Biography:Tartini was born in Piran, a town on the peninsula of Istria, in the Republic of Venice to Gianantonio – native of Florence – and Caterina Zangrando, a descendant of one of the oldest aristocratic Piranian families.It...
(1692–1770) - Unico Wilhelm van WassenaerUnico Wilhelm van WassenaerUnico Willem van Wassenaer, Count of the Empire, was a Dutch diplomat and composer....
(1692–1766) - Laurent BelissenLaurent BelissenLaurent Belissen was a French Baroque composer. He was born in Aix-en-Provence and may have been among the last students of Guillaume Poitevin, then maître de musique at the choir school of the Aix Cathedral.By 1722 Belissen settled in Marseille, where he succeeded Antoine Blanchard as maître de...
(1693–1762) - Šimon BrixiŠimon BrixiŠimon Brixi was a Czech composer. He was the father of František Brixi.-Life:He was born in Vlkava u Nymburka. In 1720 he began to study law in Prague. He did not complete his studies, devoting himsef rather to music. His artistic activity was linked with the musical life in Prague...
(1693–1735) - Gregor Joseph WernerGregor Werner-Career:Werner was born in Ybbs an der Donau. He served from 1715 to either 1716 or 1721 as the organist at Melk Abbey. During the 1720s he was in Vienna, where he may have studied with Johann Fux and was married on 27 January 1727....
(1693–1766) - Louis-Claude DaquinLouis-Claude DaquinLouis-Claude Daquin , was a French composer of Jewish birth writing in the Baroque and Galant styles. He was a virtuoso organist and harpsichordist.-Life:...
(1694–1772) - Johann Samuel Endler (1694–1762) (:de:Johann Samuel Endler)
- Pierre-Claude FoucquetPierre-Claude FoucquetPierre-Claude Foucquet was a French organist and harpsichordist.Pierre-Claude Foucquet was born in Paris, the son of Pierre Foucquet and Anna-Barbe Domballe. He was born into a family of musicians. At age 18, he was appointed as the organist at Saint Honoré church in Paris...
(1694–1772) - Leonardo LeoLeonardo LeoLeonardo Leo , more correctly Lionardo Oronzo Salvatore de Leo, was an Italian Baroque composer.-Biography:...
(1694–1744) - Antonín Reichenauer (1694–1730) (:de:Antonín Reichenauer)
- Johan Helmich RomanJohan Helmich RomanJohan Helmich Roman was a Swedish Baroque composer. He has been called "the father of Swedish music" or "the Swedish Handel."-Life:...
(1694–1758) - Giuseppe SammartiniGiuseppe SammartiniGiuseppe Baldassare Sammartini was an Italian composer and an oboist.A native of Milan, he moved to London together with his brother Giovanni Battista Sammartini. He had started playing the oboe in Milan and in London took up the post of oboist in the Opera orchestra in 1727...
(1695–1750) - Pietro LocatelliPietro LocatelliPietro Antonio Locatelli was an Italian composer and violinist.-Biography:Locatelli was born in Bergamo, Italy. A child prodigy on the violin, he was sent to study in Rome under the direction of Arcangelo Corelli...
(1695–1764) - Marie-Anne-Catherine QuinaultMarie-Anne-Catherine QuinaultMarie-Anne-Catherine Quinault was a French singer and composer. Her father was the actor Jean Quinault , and her brother was Jean-Baptiste Maurice Quinault, a singer, composer, and actor. She made her debut at the Paris Opera in 1709 in Jean-Baptiste Lully's Bellérophon. She remained at the...
(1695–1791) - Ernst Gottlieb BaronErnst Gottlieb BaronErnst Gottlieb Baron or Ernst Theofil Baron, was a German lutenist, composer and writer on music.Baron was born in Breslau into the family Michael Baron, of a maker of gold lace who expected his son to follow in his footsteps. Baron showed an inclination to music from an early age, and later made...
(1696–1760) - Pierre FévrierPierre FévrierPierre Février was a French baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist.Février lived in Paris and served as titular organist of two churches in the Saint-Honoré street: the Jacobins' church and the Saint Roch. Claude-Bénigne Balbastre, who moved to Paris in 1750, was among his pupils and...
(1696–1760) - Maurice GreeneMaurice Greene (composer)Maurice Greene was an English composer and organist.- Biography :Born in London, the son of a clergyman, Greene became a choirboy at St Paul's Cathedral under Jeremiah Clarke and Charles King...
(1696–1755) - Johann Melchior MolterJohann Melchior MolterJohann Melchior Molter was a German baroque composer and violinist.He was born at Tiefenort, near Eisenach, and was educated at the Gymnasium in Eisenach. By autumn 1717 he had left Eisenach and was working as a violinist in Karlsruhe. Here he married Maria Salome Rollwagen, with whom he had eight...
(1696–1765) - Johann Caspar VoglerJohann Caspar VoglerJohann Caspar Vogler was a German organist and composer taught by Johann Sebastian Bach.-Biography:He was born in Hausen, near Arnstadt; from 1706 he studied with Johann Sebastian Bach, who was at that time organist there, and was also taught, in Rudolstadt, by P. H. Erlebach and Nicolaus Vetter...
(1696–1763) - Andrea ZaniAndrea ZaniAndrea Teodoro Zani was an Italian violinist and composer.-Life:Zani was born at Casalmaggiore in the Province of Cremona. He received his first instruction in playing the violin from his father, an amateur violinist...
(1696–1757) - Josse BoutmyJosse BoutmyJosse Boutmy was a composer, organist and harpsichordist of the Austrian Netherlands who established himself in Brussels. Born into a musical family, his grandfather, father, brother and sons were all musicians, also called the Boutmy Dynasty.-Background:He worked with the Prince of Thurn and...
(1697–1779) - Cornelius Heinrich DretzelCornelius Heinrich DretzelCornelius Heinrich Dretzel was a German organist and composer. He was born in Nuremberg, where he appears to have spent his whole life in various organists' posts. He may have studied with J.S. Bach in Weimar , and his compositions reveal points of contact with Bach...
(1697–1775) - Adam FalckenhagenAdam FalckenhagenAdam Falckenhagen was a German lutenist and composer of the Baroque period.He was born in Groß-Dölzig, near Leipzig in Saxony, but spent the later part of his life in Bayreuth. He wrote tuneful music which is still played today on lute and guitar...
(1697–1754) - Johann Christian Hertel (1697/1699–1754) (:de:Johann Christian Hertel)
- Jean-Marie LeclairJean-Marie LeclairJean-Marie Leclair l'aîné, also known as Jean-Marie Leclair the Elder, was a Baroque violinist and composer. He is considered to have founded the French violin school...
l'aîné (1697–1764) - Giuseppe de MajoGiuseppe de MajoGiuseppe de Majo was an Italian composer and organist. He was the father of the composer Gian Francesco de Majo. His compositional output consists of 10 operas, an oratorio, a concerto for 2 violins, and a considerable amount of sacred music.-Life and career:Born in Naples, Majo spent most of his...
(1697–1771) - Giovanni Benedetto PlattiGiovanni Benedetto PlattiGiovanni Benedetto Platti was an Italian composer.-Life:...
(1697–1763) - Johann Pfeiffer (1697–1761)
- Johann Joachim QuantzJohann Joachim QuantzJohann Joachim Quantz was a German flutist, flute maker and composer.-Biography:Quantz was born in Oberscheden, near Göttingen, Germany, and died in Potsdam....
(1697–1773) - Francesco Antonio VallottiFrancesco Antonio VallottiFrancesco Antonio Vallotti was an Italian composer, music theorist, and organist.- Life :He was born in Vercelli. He studied with G. A. Bissone at the church of St. Eusebius, and joined the Franciscan order in 1716. He was ordained as a priest in 1720. In 1722 he became an organist at St...
(1697–1780) - Pietro AulettaPietro AulettaPietro Antonio Auletta was an Italian composer mainly known for his operas....
(c. 1698–1771) - Antonio BioniAntonio BioniAntonio Bioni was an Italian composer best known for his operas.He was born in Venice.-Operas:*Climene *Mitridate *Cajo Mario *Udine...
(1698–1739) - Riccardo BroschiRiccardo BroschiRiccardo Broschi was a composer of baroque music and the brother of the opera singer Carlo Broschi, known as Farinelli....
(c. 1698–1756) - François FrancoeurFrançois FrancoeurFrançois Francœur was a French composer and violinist.-Biography:He was born in Paris, the son of Joseph Francœur, a basse de violon player and member of the 24 violons du roy. Francœur was instructed in music by his father and joined the Académie Royale de Musique as a violinist at age 15...
(1698–1787) - Nicola Bonifacio LogroscinoNicola LogroscinoNicola Bonifacio Logroscino was an Italian composer who is best known for his operas.-Biography:He was born at Bitonto and was a pupil of Francesco Durante...
(1698–c. 1764) - Gaetano Maria Schiassi (1698–1754) (:de:Gaetano Maria Schiassi)
- Jean-Baptiste ForquerayJean-Baptiste ForquerayJean-Baptiste Forqueray , the son of Antoine Forqueray, was a player of the viol and a composer.Forqueray was born in Paris. He is most famous today for his 1747 publication of twenty-nine pieces for viol and continuo which he attributed to his father...
le fils (1699–1782) - Joseph GibbsJoseph GibbsJoseph Gibbs , was an English composer.-Biography:Joseph Gibbs was not a prolific composer, but he was a not entirely unknown. He was born in Dedham, Essex in 1699, though not much more has been traced of Gibbs until 1748. In that year, he was appointed organist at the Church of St...
(1699–1788) - Johann Adolph HasseJohann Adolph HasseJohann Adolph Hasse was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music. Immensely popular in his time, Hasse was best known for his prolific operatic output, though he also composed a considerable quantity of sacred music...
(1699–1783) - Juan Francés de IribarrenJuan Francés de IribarrenJuan Francés de Iribarren was a Spanish late baroque composer.Iribarren was christened on March 24, 1699 at the Church of St. James the Great in Sangüesa. He was a choirboy in the capilla real under José de Torres, who in 1717 recommended him for the post of organist at the Old Cathedral of...
(1699–1767) - Jan ZachJan ZachJan Zach was a Czech composer, violinist and organist. Although he was a gifted and versatile composer capable of writing both in Baroque and Classical idioms, his eccentric personality led to numerous conflicts and lack of steady employment since about 1756.-Life:Zach was born in Čelákovice,...
(1699–1773)
- Domenico Della Bella (fl. c. 1700–1715)
- Michielina Della PietàMichielina della PietàMichielina della Pietà was an Italian composer, violinist, organist, and teacher of music....
(fl. c. 1701–1744) - Charles DolléCharles DolléCharles Dollé was a French viol player and composer. Very little is known about his life. He was active in Paris and was a sought-after teacher of viol...
(fl. 1735–1755; d. after 1755) - Giovanni GiorgiGiovanni Giorgi (composer)Giovanni Giorgi was a priest and an Italian composer. His style of polychoral church compositions are influenced by earlier Roman School composers such as Orazio Benevoli, but also incorporate later Roman Baroque features and some elements of early Classical style.__NoTOC__-Life:Giorgi is...
(fl. from 1719; d. 1762) - Caterina Benedicta GrazianiniCaterina Benedicta GrazianiniCaterina Benedicta Grazianini was an Italian composer of oratorios in Vienna. She was among the female composers of oratorios in Vienna who, according to Wellesz, were regular canonesses, rather than employed at the court. This group included Maria de Raschenau, Maria Margherita Grimani, and...
(born 17th century; fl. from 1705) - Maria Margherita GrimaniMaria Margherita GrimaniIt is not certain when she was born, but it was somewhere around the late 16 hundreds. She Married Giovanni Andrea Grimani, her maiden name was Vitalina....
(b. before 1700; fl. 1713–1718) - Benoit Guillemant (fl. 1746–1757)
- Richard JonesRichard Jones (composer)Richard Jones was an English composer and violinist.Jones's first publication appeared in 1720, a solo cantata While in a Lovely Rurall Seat. He was associated with the Drury Lane Theater Orchestra in London possibly as early as 1723; according to John Hawkins , in 1730 he succeeded Stefano...
(late 17th century–1744) - Gottfried Lindemann (fl. 1713–1741; d. 1741)
- Le Sieur de Machy (d. after 1692)
- Jacques Morel (fl. c. 1700–1749)
- Antonio Orefice (fl. 1708–1734) (:it:Antonio Orefice)
- Mrs PhilarmonicaMrs PhilarmonicaMrs Philarmonica was the pseudonym of an English Baroque composer. She published a collection of 12 trio sonatas for two violins with Richard Meares in London about 1715. Her actual identity is unknown.-Works:Selected works include:...
(fl. 1715) - Julie PinelJulie PinelJulie Pinel was a French composer and harpsichord teacher, born into the Pinel family of court musicians. Very little is known of her life, but she dedicated her published collection of songs to the "Prince of Soubize", thought to be Charles de Rohan, the patron of her family.-Works:Pinel...
(fl. 1710–1737) - Marieta Morosina PriuliMarieta Morosina PriuliMarieta Morosina Priuli was an Italian composer. She was born in Venice into the Morosina family. Priuli published a collection of works in 1667 dedicated to the Habsburg Dowager Empress Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg entitled Balletti e correnti, including five sets of pieces for three string...
(fl. 1665) - Camilla de RossiCamilla de RossiCamilla de Rossi was an Italian composer. Several women are known to have composed music in Northern Italy and Austria during the period 1670-1725. Of those women, though there is no remaining biographical information, Camilla de Rossi by far has the most surviving works. The only known...
(fl. 1707–1710) - Giovanni ZamboniGiovanni ZamboniGiovanni Zamboni was a baroque composer.Zamboni was an able musician—he mastered theorbo, lute, guitar, mandola, mandoline and harpsichord and he was also skilled in counterpoint....
(later 17th century–after 1718)
Early Galante era composers – Transition from Baroque to Classical (born 1700 and after)
Composers during the transition from the Baroque to Classical eras, sometimes seen as the beginning of the Galante eraGalante music
A new style of classical music, fashionable from the 1720s to the 1770s, was called Galante music. It consciously simplified contrapuntal texture and intense composing techniques that realized a pattern on the page and substituted a clear leading voice with a transparent accompaniment....
, include the following figures listed by their date of birth:
- Mlle Guédon de PreslesMlle Guédon de PreslesMlle Guédon de Presles was a French singer, composer and actress. She performed for the first time in court before the queen, and published a collection of airs in the 1740s.-References:...
(early 18th century–1754) - Johann Bernhard Bach (the younger)Johann Bernhard Bach (the younger)Johann Bernhard Bach was a nephew of Johann Sebastian Bach. He was a German composer and organist....
(1700–1743) - Michel BlavetMichel BlavetMichel Blavet was a French flute virtuoso born in Besançon, France. Although Blavet taught himself to play almost every instrument, he specialized in the bassoon and the flute which he held to the left, the opposite of how most flutists hold theirs today.-Life:The son of a wood turner, a...
(1700–1768) - Sebastian BodinusSebastian BodinusSebastian Bodinus was a German composer about whom very little is known. Bodinus was born in the village of Bittstädt in Saxe-Gotha and trained as a violinist. It is known that in 1718 he entered the service of the Margrave Karl III of Baden-Durlach at the court in Karlsruhe...
(c. 1700–1759) - Domenico Dall'Oglio (c. 1700–1764) (:it:Domenico Dall'Oglio)
- João Rodrigues EstevesJoão Rodrigues EstevesJoão Rodrigues Esteves was a composer of religious music. He wrote numerous works, among others:*Eight-voice mass completed at Rome on 8 September 1721*22 vesper psalms*2 Te Deum*Magnificat in E minor with organ- References :...
(1700–1751) - Nicola FiorenzaNicola FiorenzaNicola Fiorenza was an Italian violinist and composer of the early Neapolitan classical period.-Life:...
(after 1700–1764) - Jean-Baptiste MasseJean-Baptiste MasseJean Baptiste Masse was a French composer and violoncello player.He was an Ordinaire de la Chambre du Roi and a member of the King's Bande of Twenty-Four Violins and of the orchestra of the Comédie Française....
(c. 1700–c. 1757) - Giovanni Battista SammartiniGiovanni Battista SammartiniGiovanni Battista Sammartini was an Italian composer, organist, choirmaster and teacher. He counted Gluck among his students, and was highly regarded by younger composers including Johann Christian Bach...
(1700/1701–1775) - Johan AgrellJohan AgrellJohan Agrell was a late German/Swedish baroque composer.He was born in Löth, Östergötland, a province in Sweden and studied in Uppsala. By 1734 he was a violinist at the Kassel court, travelling in England, France, Italy and elsewhere. From 1746 onward, he was Kapellmeister in Nuremberg...
(1701–1765) - François RebelFrançois RebelFrançois Rebel was a French composer of the Baroque era. Born in Paris, the son of the leading composer Jean-Féry Rebel, he was a child prodigy who became a violinist in the orchestra of the Paris Opera at the age of 13...
(1701–1775) - Alessandro Besozzi (1702–1775)
- Johann Ernst EberlinJohann Ernst EberlinJohann Ernst Eberlin was a German composer and organist whose works bridge the baroque and classical eras. He was a prolific composer, chiefly of church organ and choral music...
(1702–1762) - José de NebraJosé de NebraJosé Melchor Baltasar Gaspar Nebra Blasco was a Spanish composer.José de Nebra was born in Calatayud and was taught by his father, José Antonio Nebra Mezquita , organist and master of choirboys at the Cathedral of Cuenca 1711-1729...
(1702–1768) - Johann Gottlieb GraunJohann Gottlieb GraunJohann Gottlieb Graun was a German Baroque/Classical era composer and violinist.Graun was born in Wahrenbrück. His brother Carl Heinrich was also a composer and singer. He studied with J.G. Pisendel in Dresden, and Giuseppe Tartini in Padua. Appointed Konzertmeister in Merseburg in 1726, he taught...
(c. 1702–1771) - Francisco António de AlmeidaFrancisco António de AlmeidaFrancisco António de Almeida was a Portuguese composer and organist.From 1722 to 1726 he was a royal scholar in Rome. In 1724, Pier Leone Ghezzi drew his caricature, describing him as "a young but excellent composer of concertos and church music who sang with extreme taste"...
(c. 1702–1755) - Joseph-Hector FioccoJoseph-Hector FioccoJoseph-Hector Fiocco , born in Brussels, was a Flemish composer and violinist of the high and late Baroque period....
(1703–1741) - John Frederick LampeJohn Frederick LampeJohn Frederick Lampe was a musician.He was born in Saxony, but came to England in 1724 and played the bassoon in opera houses. His wife, Isabella Lampe, was sister-in-law to the composer Thomas Arne with whom Lampe collaborated on a number of concert seasons...
(1703–1751) - Jean-Marie LeclairJean-Marie Leclair the youngerJean-Marie Leclair le cadet, also known as Jean-Marie Leclair, the Younger was a French composer, and younger brother of the better-known Jean-Marie Leclair l'aîné ....
le cadet (the younger) (1703–1777) - Rosanna Scalfi MarcelloRosanna Scalfi Marcello-Life:Rosanna Scalfi was a gondola singer of Venetian arie di battello, and was taken as a singing student by Italian nobleman, magistrate, writer and composer Benedetto Marcello about 1723. The two were secretly wed in a religious ceremony on 20 May 1728, but his marriage to a commoner was...
(fl. 1723–1742) - Carlo Zuccari (1703–1792) (:de:Carlo Zuccari)
- Carlos SeixasCarlos SeixasJosé António Carlos de Seixas, , was a Portuguese composer, the son of the cathedral organist, Francisco Vaz and Marcelina Nunes.Seixas was born in Coimbra...
(1704–1742) - Carl Heinrich GraunCarl Heinrich GraunCarl Heinrich Graun was a German composer and tenor singer. Along with Johann Adolf Hasse, he is considered to be the most important German composer of Italian opera of his time.-Biography:...
(1704–1759) - Giovanni Battista PescettiGiovanni Battista PescettiGiovanni Battista Pescetti was an organist and composer. Born in Venice around 1704, he studied under Antonio Lotti for some time...
(c. 1704–c. 1766) - František TůmaFrantišek TumaFrantišek Ignác Antonín Tůma was an important Czech composer of the Baroque era...
(1704–1774) - Nicolas ChédevilleNicolas ChédevilleNicolas Chédeville was a French composer, musette player and musette maker.-Biography:He was born in Serez, Eure; musicians Pierre Chédeville and Esprit Philippe Chédeville were his brothers. Louis Hotteterre was his great uncle and godfather, and may have given him instruction in music and...
(1705–1782) - Henri-Jacques de Croes (1705–1786) (:de:Henri-Jacques de Croes)
- Michael Christian FestingMichael Christian FestingMichael Christian Festing was an English violinist and composer. His reputation lies mostly on his work as a violin virtuoso.-Biography:...
(1705–1752) - Louis-Gabriel GuillemainLouis-Gabriel GuillemainLouis-Gabriel Guillemain was a French composer and violinist.-Biography:Probably born in Paris, Guillemain was raised by the Count de Rochechouart, and started studying violin at an early age. He was then sent to Italy to complete his training as violinist, and studied under Giovanni Battista...
(1705–1770) - Johann Peter KellnerJohann Peter KellnerJohann Peter Kellner was a German organist and composer. He was the father of Johann Christoph Kellner.-Biography:...
(1705–1772) - Peter Prelleur (c. 1705?–1741) (http://www.musicologie.org/Biographies/p/prelleur.html)
- Pancrace RoyerJoseph-Nicolas-Pancrace RoyerJoseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer was a French composer and harpsichordist.Born in Turin, Royer went to Paris in 1725, and in 1734 became maître de musique des enfants de France, responsible for the musical education of the children of the king, Louis XV...
(1705–1755) - Andrea BernasconiAndrea BernasconiAndrea Bernasconi was an Italian composer. He began his career in his native country as a composer of operas. In 1755 he was appointed to the post of Kapellmeister at the Bavarian court in Munich where he produced several more operas successfully and a few symphonies. After 1772 his compositional...
(c. 1706–1784) - Carlo CecereCarlo CecereCarlo Cecere was an Italian composer of operas, concertos and instrumental duets including, for examples, some mandolin duets and a concerto for mandolin. Cecere worked in the transitional period between the Baroque and Classical eras of music.-Life:Surprisingly little is known about his life,...
(1706–1761) - Baldassare Galuppi (1706–1785)
- William HayesWilliam Hayes (organist)William Hayes was an English composer, organist, singer and conductor.-Life:...
(1706–1777) - Giovanni Battista MartiniGiovanni Battista MartiniGiovanni Battista Martini , also known as Padre Martini, was an Italian musician.-Biography:Martini was born at Bologna....
, or Padre Martini (1706–1784) - Jean BarrièreJean-Baptiste BarrièreJean-Baptiste Barrière was a French cellist and composer. He was born in Bordeaux and died in Paris, at 40 years of age.-Musical career:Barrière first studied the viol, and published a set of viol sonatas...
(1707–1747) - Thomas ChilcotThomas Chilcot-Life: Thomas Chilcot of Bath, Somerset was born in the West of England in or about 1707. Records of his birth, like most other records from his life, are now lost. Thomas was educated at Bath Charity School, whose headmaster, Henry Dixon, had a strong interest in church music...
(c. 1707–1766) (http://www.rishton.info/pubs/seraphic.pdf) - Michel CorretteMichel CorretteMichel Corrette was a French organist, composer and author of musical method books.-Life:Corrette was born in Rouen, Normandy. His father, Gaspard Corrette, was an organist and composer. Corrette served as organist at the Jesuit College in Paris from about 1737 to 1780. It is also known that he...
(1707–1795) - Ignacio de Jerusalem y Stella (c. 1707–1769) (:es:Ignacio de Jerusalem y Stella)
- Johann Baptist Georg NerudaJohann Baptist Georg NerudaRelative to other composers of the Classical music era Johann Baptist Georg Neruda is little known, and his dates of birth and death are only approximations. He was born in Bohemia, now part of Czech Republic, to a well-respected musical family...
(c. 1707–c. 1780) - Domenico ParadiesPietro Domenico ParadisiPietro Domenico Paradisi , was an Italian composer, harpsichordist and harpsichord teacher, most prominently known for a composition popularly entitled "Toccata in A"....
or Pietro Domenico Paradisi (1707–1791) - António TeixeiraAntónio TeixeiraAntónio Teixeira was a Portuguese composer.Born and died in Lisbon. He was a royal scholar in Rome from 1714 to 1728, and on 11 June of that year was elected chaplain-singer of Lisbon Cathedral and examiner in plainchant for the Lisbon patriarchy...
(1707–1769) - Felix BendaFelix BendaFelix Benda was a Bohemian composer and organist. He was a member of Benda musical family....
(1708–1768) - Egidio Duni (1708–1775)
- Johann Gottlieb JanitschJohann Gottlieb JanitschJohann Gottlieb Janitsch was a German Baroque composer.Janitsch was born in Schweidnitz, Silesia. He graduated from the University of Frankfurt an der Oder. He held various positions at the court of the Kingdom of Prussia, eventually becoming the personal musician of Frederick the Great. Janitsch...
(1708–1763) - Václav Jan KopřivaVáclav Jan KopřivaVáclav Jan Kopřiva was a Bohemian composer and organist.-Life:...
, known as Urtica (1708–1789) - Georg Reutter (the younger) (1708–1772)
- Johann Adolph ScheibeJohann Adolph ScheibeJohann Adolph Scheibe was a Danish composer, who in 1737 published an influential criticism of Johann Sebastian Bach's music.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....
(1708–1776) - Francesco ArajaFrancesco ArajaFrancesco Domenico Araja was an Italian composer who spent 25 years in Russia and wrote at least 14 operas for the Russian Imperial Court including Tsefal i Prokris, the first opera written in the Russian language.-Biography:He was born and...
(1709–after 1762) - Franz BendaFranz BendaFranz Benda was a Czech violinist and composer. He was the brother of Jiří Antonín Benda, and he worked for much of his life at the court of Frederick the Great....
(1709–1786) - Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709–1758)
- Christoph SchaffrathChristoph SchaffrathChristoph Schaffrath is best known as a musician and composer of classical western music of the late Baroque to Classical transition era.-Career:...
(1709–1763) - Charles AvisonCharles AvisonCharles Avison – 10 May 1770) was an English composer during the Baroque and Classical periods. He was a church organist at St John The Baptist Church in Newcastle and at St. Nicholas's Church...
(1709–1770) - Domenico AlbertiDomenico AlbertiDomenico Alberti was an Italian singer, harpsichordist, and composer whose works bridge the Baroque and Classical periods....
(c. 1710–1740) - Joseph AbacoJoseph AbacoJoseph Abaco was a Belgian violoncellist and composer...
, or dall'Abaco (1710–1805) - Thomas Arne (1710–1778)
- Wilhelm Friedemann BachWilhelm Friedemann BachWilhelm Friedemann Bach , the second child and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach, was a German composer and performer...
(1710–1784) - Elisabeth de HaulteterreElisabeth de HaulteterreElisabeth de Haulteterre was a French composer and violinist. She was known as a concert violinist, playing Jean-Marie Leclair's sonatas at the Concert Spirituel in 1737. Her married name was Levésque.-Works:...
(b. c. 1710s?; fl. 1737–1768) - Giovanni Battista PergolesiGiovanni Battista PergolesiGiovanni Battista Pergolesi was an Italian composer, violinist and organist.-Biography:Born at Iesi, Pergolesi studied music there under a local musician, Francesco Santini, before going to Naples in 1725, where he studied under Gaetano Greco and Francesco Feo among others...
(1710–1736) - William Boyce (1711–1779)
- Gaetano LatillaGaetano LatillaGaetano Latilla was an Italian opera composer, the most important of the period immediately preceding Niccolò Piccinni .Latilla was born in Bari, and studied at the Loreto Conservatory in Naples...
(1711–1788) - Davide Perez (1711–1778)
- Barbara of PortugalBarbara of PortugalBarbara of Portugal was an Infanta of Portugal and later Queen of Spain as wife of Ferdinand VI of Spain.-Life in Portugal:...
(1711–1758) - Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de MondonvilleJean-Joseph de MondonvilleJean-Joseph de Mondonville , also known as Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, was a French violinist and composer. He was a younger contemporary of Jean-Philippe Rameau and enjoyed great success in his day...
(1711–1772) - James Oswald (1711–1769)
- Frederick the GreatFrederick II of PrussiaFrederick II was a King in Prussia and a King of Prussia from the Hohenzollern dynasty. In his role as a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire, he was also Elector of Brandenburg. He was in personal union the sovereign prince of the Principality of Neuchâtel...
(1712–1786) - John HebdenJohn HebdenJohn Hebden was a composer and musician in 18th century Great Britain.Little is known of Hebden's life. He was baptized on 21 July 1712 at Spofforth, near Harrogate in Yorkshire, the son of 'John Hebdin' of Plompton. He was orphaned when young but was fortunate enough to receive an excellent...
(1712–1765) - John Christopher SmithJohn Christopher SmithJohn Christopher Smith [Johann Christoph Schmidt] was an English composer who, following in his father's footsteps, became George Frederic Handel's secretary and amanuensis.-Life:...
(1712–1795) - John StanleyJohn Stanley (composer)Charles John Stanley was an English composer and organist.-Biography:Stanley, who was blind from an early age, studied music with Maurice Greene and held a number of organist appointments in London, such as St Andrew's, Holborn from 1726...
(1712–1786) - Antoine DauvergneAntoine DauvergneAntoine Dauvergne was a French composer and violinist. Dauvergne served as master of the Chambre du roi, director of the Concert Spirituel from 1762 to 1771, and director of the Opéra three times between 1769 and 1790...
(1713–1797) - Johan Henrik FreithoffJohan Henrik FreithoffJohan Henrik Freithoff was a Norwegian-Danish violinist and composer.-External links:...
(1713–1767) - Johann Ludwig KrebsJohann Ludwig KrebsJohann Ludwig Krebs was a Rococo musician and composer primarily for the pipe organ.-Life:Krebs was born in 1713 in Buttelstedt, Germany to Johann Tobias Krebs, a well-known organist. J. Tobias had at least three sons who were considered musically talented, and J...
(1713–1780) - Johann Nicolaus MempelJohann Nicolaus MempelJohann Nicolaus Mempel was a German musician.He was born in Heyda . From 1740 to his death, he was cantor in Apolda...
(1713–1747) - Carl Philipp Emanuel BachCarl Philipp Emanuel Bachright|250pxCarl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach...
(1714–1788) - John AlcockJohn Alcock (organist)John Alcock, was an English organist and composer. He wrote instrumental music, glees and much church music.-Career:...
(1715–1806) - Josef SegerJosef SegerJosef Seger was a Bohemian organist, composer, and educator...
(1716–1782) - Richard Mudge (1718–1763) (:de:Richard Mudge)
- Pieter HellendaalPieter HellendaalPieter Hellendaal was an organist and violinist, and one of the most famous composers of Dutch origin in the 18th century. At age 30, he migrated to England where he lived for the last 48 of his 78 years.-Early and Student Years:...
(1721–1799) - Rafael Antonio CastellanosRafael Antonio CastellanosRafael Antonio Castellanos was a Guatemalan classical composer. His style is that of the late Spanish baroque, pre-classical, and classical periods, with frequent reference to Guatemalan folk music idioms.-Life:...
(c. 1725–1791) - Santa della PietàSanta della PietàSanta della Pietà was an Italian singer, composer, and violinist....
(fl. c. 1725–1750, d. after 1774) - Pierre van MalderePierre van MalderePieter van Maldere was a violinist and composer from the Southern Low Countries .-Life:...
(1729–1768) - Antonio SolerAntonio SolerAntonio Francisco Javier José Soler Ramos, usually known as Padre Antonio Soler, known in Catalan as Antoni Soler i Ramos was a Spanish Catalan composer whose works span the late Baroque and early Classical music eras...
(1729–1783) - Capel BondCapel BondCapel Bond was an English organist and composer.He was born in Gloucester, the son of William Bond and the younger brother of painter and japanner Daniel Bond . He received his education at the Crypt school with his uncle, Rev...
(1730–1790)