ComposerA composer is a person who creates music, usually by musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of...
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BaroqueBaroque music describes a style of European classical music approximately extending from 1600 to 1750. This era is said to begin in music after the Renaissance and was followed by the Classical era...
era, ordered by date of birth:
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:
- Oratio Bassani, 'Orazio della Viola' (c. 1550–before 1609?)
- Emilio de' Cavalieri
Emilio 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 Caccini
Giulio Caccini 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)
- Paolo Quagliati
Paolo Quagliati was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era and a member of the Roman School of composers...
(c. 1555–1628)
- Manuel Rodrigues Coelho
Manuel Rodrigues Coelho was a Portuguese organist and composer. He is the first important Iberian keyboard composer since Cabezón....
(c. 1555–c. 1635)
- Jacques Champion 'La Chapelle' (before 1555–1642)
- Johannes Nucius
Johannes Nucius was a German composer and music theorist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras...
(c. 1556–1620)
- Alfonso Fontanelli
Alfonso Fontanelli was an Italian composer, writer, diplomat, courtier, and nobleman of the late Renaissance...
(1557–1622)
- Giovanni Bassano
Giovanni 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)
- Thomas Robinson (c. 1560–after 1609)
- Richard Allison
Richard Allison 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 Anerio
Felice 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)
- Mikołaj Zieleński (c. 1560–c. 1620)
- Giovanni Bernardino Nanino
Giovanni 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)
- Lodovico Grossi da Viadana
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana was an Italian composer, teacher, and Franciscan friar of the Order of Minor Observants...
(c. 1560–1627)
- Peter Philips
Peter Philips was an eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest exiled to Flanders. He was one of the greatest keyboard virtuosos of his time, and transcribed or arranged several Italian motets and madrigals by such as Lassus, Palestrina, and Giulio Caccini for his instruments. Some...
(c. 1560–1628)
- Hieronymus Praetorius
Hieronymus 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)
- William Brade
William 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)
- Camillo Lambardi (c. 1560–1634)
- Jacopo Peri
Jacopo 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)
- Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras...
(1562–1621)
- John Bull
John Bull was an English composer, musician, and organ builder. He was a renowned keyboard performer and most of his compositions were written for this medium.-Life:Bull's place of birth is shrouded in uncertainty...
(1562/1563–1628)
- Jean Titelouze
Jean 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 Dowland
John Dowland was an English 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 been a...
(1563–1626)
- Giles Farnaby
Giles 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 Hassler
Hans Leo Haßler was a German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was born in Nuremberg and died in Frankfurt am Main.- Biography :...
(1564–1612)
- Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia
Sebastian 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...
(c. 1565–after 1620)
- Ascanio Mayone
Ascanio 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 Pilkington
Francis 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)
- Duarte Lobo
Duarte Lobo was a Portuguese composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque. He was the most famous Portuguese composer of the time. Along with Filipe de Magalhães, Manuel Cardoso, and John IV, King of Portugal, he is considered to represent the "golden age" of Portuguese polyphony.Details...
(c. 1565–1646)
- Alessandro Piccinini
Alessandro 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)
- Manuel Cardoso
Manuel Cardoso was a Portuguese composer and organist. Along with Duarte Lobo and John IV of Portugal, he represented the "golden age" of Portuguese polyphony....
(1566–1650)
- Lucia Quinciani
Lucia 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 Anerio
Giovanni 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 Campion
Thomas Campion, was an English composer, poet and physician.-Biography:Campion was born in London and studied at Peterhouse, Cambridge, but left without taking a degree. He later entered Gray's Inn to study law in 1586. However, he left in 1595 without having been called to the bar...
(1567–1620)
- Christoph Demantius
Christoph 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 Formé (1567–1638)
- Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi , 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...
(1567–1643)
- Philip Rosseter
Philip 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)
- Bartolomeo Barbarino
Bartolomeo 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)
- Christian Erbach
Christian 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)
- Adriano Banchieri
Adriano 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....
(1568–1634)
- Joan Baptista Comes
Juan Bautista Comes , aka Joan Baptista Comes, was a Spanish Baroque composer who was born and died in Valencia....
(1568–1643)
- Tobias Hume
Tobias Hume was an English 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 Cima
Giovanni 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 Cornet
Peeter 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)
- Alfonso Ferrabosco (II)
Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger was an English composer and viol player of Italian descent. He straddles the line between the Renaissance and Baroque eras. He was the illegitimate son of the Italian composer Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder. His mother might have been Susanna Symons, whom Alfonso the...
(c. 1570–1628)
- Pierre Guédron
Pierre Guédron, , was a French singer and composer known for writing Air de cour .Guédron's Est-ce Mars was especially popular and is known in versions by...
(c. 1570–c. 1620)
- Paul Peuerl
Paul Peuerl was a German organist, organ builder, renovator and repairer, and composer of instrumental music.-Works:...
(1570–1625)
- Joan Pau Pujol
Joan Pau Pujol was a Spanish Catalan composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque. While best known for his sacred music, he also wrote popular secular music....
(1570–1626)
- Salamone Rossi
Salamone 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 Sessa (c. 1570–between 1613 and 1619)
- Giovanni Battista Fontana
Giovanni Battista Fontana was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist.He worked in Brescia, Rome, Padova. He died in 1630 during a plague....
(c. 1571- c. 1630)
- Thomas Lupo
Thomas 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 Magalhães
Filipe 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 and he was a colleague of the renowned polyphonists Duarte Lobo and Manuel Cardoso. In 1589 he replaced...
(c. 1571–1652)
- Martin Peerson
Martin Peerson was an English composer, organist and virginalist...
(1571/1573–1651)
- Giovanni Picchi
Giovanni 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 Praetorius
Michael Praetorius was a German composer, organist, and writer about music. He was one of the most versatile composers of his age, being particularly significant in the development of musical forms based on Protestant hymns.- Life :He was born Michael Schultze, the youngest son of a Lutheran...
(c. 1571–1621)
- John Ward
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 Bacheler
Daniel Bacheler was an English lutenist and composer.Bacheler was born at Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, and served an apprenticeship with Thomas Cardell who was a lutenist and dancing-master in the court of Queen Elizabeth I.He worked for Sir Francis Walsingham, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of...
(1572–1619)
- Thomas Tomkins
Thomas Tomkins was a Welsh-born composer of Cornish origins 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.-Life:Tomkins was born in St David's in Pembrokeshire in...
(1572–1656)
- Cesarina Ricci (born c. 1573, fl. 1597)
- Claudio Pari
Claudio 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)
- John Wilbye
John Wilbye , was an English madrigal composer. He was born at Brome, Suffolk, near Diss, the son of a tanner, and received the patronage of the Cornwallis family. It is thought that he accompanied Elizabeth Cornwallis to Hengrave Hall near Bury St. Edmunds in around 1594 when she married Sir...
(1574–1638)
- Vittoria Aleotti
Vittoria Aleotti , believed to be the same as Raffaella Aleotti was an Italian Augustinian nun, a composer and organist....
(c. 1575–after 1620)
- William Simmes
William 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)
- John Coprario (c. 1575–1626)
- Giovanni Priuli
Giovanni 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)
- Esteban López Morago
Esteban López Morago was a Spanish composer who lived and worked in Portugal. He is one of the most important polyphonists in the music history of Portugal.-Life:López Morago was born in Vallecas, near Madrid, but he passed the rest of his life in Portugal...
(c. 1575–after 1630)
- Michelagnolo Galilei
Michelagnolo 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 born...
(1575-1631)
- Ignazio Donati
Ignazio 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, near Parma...
(c. 1575–1638)
- Estêvão de Brito
Estêvão 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)
- Matheo Romero
Matheo Romero was a Belgian-born Spanish composer of Baroque music, born as Mathieu Rosmarin in Liège, Belgium....
(c. 1575–1647)
- Giovanni Maria Trabaci
Giovanni 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)
- Ennemond Gaultier
Ennemond 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)
- Thomas Weelkes
Thomas 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)
- Sulpitia Cesis
Sulpitia Cesis was an Italian composer and lutenist in Modena at the convent of San Agostino. She is known only from her 1619 publication Motetti Spitituale , a collection of 23 sacred motets for two to twelve voices. Some of the scores indicate the use of cornetts and trombones, which were not...
(b. 1577; fl. 1619)
- Agostino Agazzari
Agostino Agazzari was an Italian composer and music theorist.-Biography:Agazzari was born in Siena to an aristocratic family. After working in Rome, as a teacher at the Germanic College, he returned to Siena in 1607, becoming first organist and later choirmaster of the cathedral there...
(1578–1640)
- Melchior Franck
Melchior 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 Basile
Adriana 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, Giovanni Battista Basile, a poet, Lelio Basile, a composer, and her sisters, Margherita...
(c. 1580–c. 1640)
- Jacques Cordier (c. 1580–before 1655)
- Richard Dering
Richard Dering [also Deering, Dearing, Diringus etc.] was an English composer. Despite being from England, he lived and worked most of his life in the Spanish-dominated South Netherlands, due to his Roman Catholic faith....
(c. 1580–1630)
- Michael East
Michael East was an English organist and composer.He was nephew of London music publisher Thomas East , although, once it was thought that he was his son...
(1580–1648)
- Thomas Ford
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 Kapsberger
Johann Hieronymus Kapsberger , was a German-Italian virtuoso performer and composer of the early Baroque period...
, or Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (c. 1580–1651)
- Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde (c.1580/90–d. after 1638)
- Thomas Simpson (1582–1628)
- Sigismondo d'India
Sigismondo 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)
- Marco da Gagliano
Marco 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)
- Giovanni Valentini
Giovanni 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)
- Gregorio Allegri
Gregorio Allegri was an Italian composer and priest of the Roman School of composers. He lived mainly in Rome, where he would later die.-Life:...
(1582–1652)
- Severo Bonini
Severo 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)
- Paolo Agostino
Paolo Agostino was an Italian composer and organist of the early Baroque era. He was born at Vallerano, near Viterbo. He studied under Giovanni Bernardino Nanino, according to the dedication in the third and fourth books of his masses...
(Agostini) (c. 1583–1629)
- Girolamo Frescobaldi
Girolamo Frescobaldi was an Italian musician, 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 Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons was an English composer and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean periods. He was a leading composer in the England of his day.-Biography:Gibbons was born in Oxford...
(1583–1625)
- Robert Johnson
Robert Johnson was an English composer and lutenist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean eras. He is sometimes called "Robert Johnson II"to distinguish him from an earlier Scottish composer.-Life:...
(c. 1583–1634)
- Nicolas Vallet
Nicolas Vallet was a Dutch lutenist and composer of French birth.Vallet, a Huguenot, needed to flee from France to the Netherlands for religious reasons...
(c. 1583–c. 1642)
- Antonio Cifra
Antonio 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....
(1584–1629)
- Francisco Correa de Arauxo
Francisco Correa de Araujo was a notable Spanish organist, composer, and theorist of the late Renaissance.-Life:...
(1584–1654)
- Nicolò Corradini (c. 1585–1646)
- Andrea Falconieri
Andrea 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....
(1585/1586–1656)
- Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich 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)
- Alessandro Grandi
Alessandro Grandi was a northern Italian composer of the early Baroque era, writing in the new concertato style...
(1586–1630)
- Claudio Saracini
Claudio 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 Schein
Johann Hermann Schein was a German composer of the early Baroque era. He was born in Grünhain and died in Leipzig...
(1586–1630)
- Stefano Landi
Stefano 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)
- Antoine Boësset
Antoine 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...
(1586–1643)
- Francesca Caccini
Francesca 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)
- Samuel Scheidt
Samuel Scheidt was a German composer, organist and teacher of the early Baroque era.He was born in Halle, and after early studies there, he went to Amsterdam to study with Sweelinck, the distinguished Dutch composer, which was clearly formative on his style...
(1587–1654)
- Johann Andreas Herbst
Johann 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)
- Guilielmus Messaus (1589–1640)
- Francesco Turini
Francesco 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 Assandra
Caterina Assandra was an Italian composer and Benedictine nun. She was born in Pavia. She wrote a number of motets, whose text she may have written, as well as a number of organ pieces, written in German tablature. Her works were among the first to be written in the Roman style in Milan...
(c. 1590–after 1618)
- Giovanni Pietro Berti (c. 1590-1638)
- Dario Castello
Dario Castello was an Italian composer and instrumentalist from the early Baroque period, who worked and published in Venice...
(c. 1590–c. 1658)
- Jacob van Eyck
Jonkheer 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....
(c. 1590–1657)
- Adam Jarzębski
Adam Jarzębski was an early baroque Polish composer, violinist, poet, and writer. The first documented mention of Jarzębski is in 1612, when he becomes a member of the chapel of Johann Siegmund Hohenzollern in Berlin. On 30 April 1615 he is granted permission to spend a year in Italy to advance...
(c. 1590–c. 1648)
- Manuel Machado
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 Schop
Johann 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)
- Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana
Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana was an Italian singer, organist, and composer. She entered a Camaldolese convent in Bologna in 1598. Her works were published in Componimenti musicali de motetti concertati a 1 e più voci...
(1590–1662)
- Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla
Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla was a composer of New Spain . He was born in Málaga, Spain but moved to Puebla, Mexico, in 1620 to compose music in the new world...
(c. 1590–1664)
- Settimia Caccini
Settimia 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?)
- Guillaume Bouzignac (before 1592–after 1641)
- Jacques Gaultier
Jacques Gaultier was a French Baroque lutenist. He was not relative 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 Jenkins
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)
- Melchior Schildt
Melchior 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 Rusca
Claudia Rusca was an Italian 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 the...
(1593–1676)
- Biagio Marini
Biagio 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)
- Tarquinio Merula
Tarquinio 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)
- Giovanni Battista Buonamente
Giovanni 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 Frederick II in Vienna. Notably, in 1627 he played for the coronation festivities in Prague of...
(c. 1595–1642)
- Henry Lawes
Henry 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 (c. 1595–1663)
- Heinrich Scheidemann
Heinrich 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)
- Antonio Maria Abbatini
Antonio 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, and thereafter successively at four other Roman churches...
(c. 1595-1680)
- Giovanni Rovetta (c. 1596–1668)
- Luigi Rossi (c. 1597–1653)
- Andreas Düben
Andreas 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)
- Charles Racquet
Charles 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)
- Johann Crüger
Johann 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)
- Thomas Selle (1599–1663)
- Giovanni Battista Riccio
Giovanni Battista Riccio was an musician and composer resident in Venice of the early Baroque era, most notable for his development of instrumental forms, particularly utilizing the recorder....
(fl. 1609–1621)
- Marcantonio Negri (d. 1624)
- Abundio Antonelli (d. 1629)
- Juan Aranés (d. c. 1649)
- Daniel Farrant (d. before 1663)
- Giuseppe Scarani (fl. 1628–1641)
- August Verdufen (????–16??)
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 Bocquet
Mlle 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 Poglietti
Alessandro 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)
- Manuel Correia
Frei Manuel Correia was a Portuguese Baroque composer.He was 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)
- Giovanni Battista Fasolo (c. 1600–1664)
- Simon Ives (1600–1662)
- Nicolaus à Kempis (c. 1600–1676)
- Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic (c. 1600–1676)
- Marcin Mielczewski
Marcin Mielczewski was, together with his tutor Franciszek Lilius and Bartłomiej Pękiel, among the most notable Polish composers in the 17th century....
(c. 1600–1651)
- Étienne Moulinié
Étienne 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...
(1600–after 1669)
- Martino Pesenti (c. 1600–c. 1648)
- Giovanni Felice Sances
Giovanni Felice Sances was an Italian singer and a Baroque composer. He was renowned in Europe during his time....
(c. 1600–1679)
- Marco Scacchi
Marco Scacchi was an Italian composer and writer on music.Scacchi 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 Strungk
Delphin Strungk was a German composer and organist associated with the North German school....
(1600/1601–1694)
- Jacques Champion de Chambonnières
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, also known as "Jacques Champion" and as "Chambonnières" was a French harpsichordist in the Early Baroque era....
(1601 or 1602–1672)
- Girolamo Fantini (b. c. 1600/1602; fl. 1638)
- Michelangelo Rossi
Michelangelo Rossi was an important Italian composer, violinist and organist of the Baroque era....
(c. 1601–1656)
- William Lawes
William Lawes was an English composer and musician.Lawes was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire and was baptised on 1 May 1602...
(1602–1645)
- Christopher Simpson
Christopher 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)
- Pietro Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676)
- Chiara Margarita Cozzolani
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani was a Baroque composer, unusual in that she was a Benedictine nun, who spent her adult life cloistered in the convent of Santa Radegonda, Milan, where she became abbess and stopped composing. More than a dozen cloistered women published sacred music in...
(1602–c. 1678)
- Caspar Kittel (1603–1639)
- John 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)
- Denis Gaultier
Denis Gaultier was a French lutenist and composer. He was a cousin of Ennemond Gaultier, with whom he was closely connected ; perhaps also a student of Charles Racquet, whose death he...
, 'Gaultier le jeune' (1603–1672)
- Marco Uccellini
Marco 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)
- Francesco Foggia
Francesco 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, Giovanni Maria Nanino and Paolo Agostini...
(1603–1688)
- Heinrich Albert
Heinrich Albert was a German composer and poet. He began studying music in 1622 with his cousin, the composer and musician Heinrich Schütz, in Dresden. He then went to study law in Leipzig; however, he continued to compose arias...
(1604–1651)
- François Dufault
François Dufault was a French lutenist and composer.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. Almost no information is preserved...
(1604–1670)
- Charles d'Assoucy
Charles 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 Benevoli
Orazio Benevoli or Benevolo , was a composer of large scaled polychoral sacred choral works; one work featured 48 vocal and instrumental lines....
(1605–1672)
- Antonio Bertali
Antonio Mortimer Bertali was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era.He was born in Verona and received early music education there. Probably from 1624, he was employed as court musician in Vienna by Emperor Ferdinand II. In 1649 Bertali succeeded Giovanni Valentini as court...
(1605–1669)
- Francesca Campana (c. 1605/1610–1665)
- Giacomo Carissimi
Giacomo 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)
- Johann Vierdanck
Johann Vierdanck was a German violinist, cornettist, and composer of the Baroque period.-Life:...
(c. 1605–1646)
- William Child
William 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)
- Philipp Friedrich Böddecker (1607–1683)
- João Lourenço Rebelo (1610–1661)
- Nicolas Hotman
Nicolas Hotman was a baroque composer, who spent most of his career in France, although he is believed to be from Germany, but was probably born in Brussels. He came with his family to Paris around 1626....
(c. 1610–1663)
- Nicolas Métru (1610–after 1663)
- Leonora Duarte
Leonora 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)
- Luigi Battiferri (1610–1682)
- Henri Du Mont
Henri 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)
- Michel Lambert
Michel Lambert was a French singing master, theorbist and composer.Lambert 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)
- William Young (c. 1610–1662)
- Leonora Baroni
Leonora Baroni was a 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, including...
(1611–1670)
- Andreas Hammerschmidt
Andreas Hammerschmidt , the "Orpheus of Zittau," was a German composer and organist, of Bohemian birth, of the early to middle Baroque era...
(1611 or 1612–1675)
- Pablo Bruna
Pablo 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)
- Sophie Elisabeth, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Sophie Elisabeth, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg was a German poet and composer. She began studying music at the court of her father, Duke Johann Albrecht of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, where there was an orchestra known for its use of fine English musicians, such as William Brade...
(1613–1676)
- Louis de Mollier (c. 1613–1688)
- Juan Hidalgo
Juan Hidalgo de Polanco was a Spanish composer and harpist. In either 1630 or 1631 he became a harpist at the Spanish royal chapel where he was responsible for the accompaniment of both sacred and secular music...
(1614–1685)
- Marc'Antonio Pasqualini (1614–1691)
- Franz Tunder
Franz 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 Bach
Heinrich Bach was a German organist, composer and a member of the Bach family....
(1615–1692)
- Angelo Michele Bartolotti
Angelo Michele Bartolotti was an Italian guitarist, theorbo player and composer. Little is known about his life up to late 1650s, when he moved from Italy to Paris. During his years in Italy, he published at least two collections of guitar music: Libro primo di chitarra spagnola and Secondo libro...
(c. 1615–1696)
- Carlo Caproli (c. 1615–c. 1692)
- Francisco Lopez Capillas
Francisco 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 Cazzati
Maurizio Cazzati , was a northern Italian composer of the seventeenth century.-Biography:Cazzati was born in Luzzara, Duchy of Mantua. In spite of being almost unknown today, during his lifetime he served as a successful music director in many cities near his birthplace, including Mantua, Bozzolo,...
(1616–1678)
- Kaspar Förster
Kaspar 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 Froberger
Johann 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 Kindermann
Johann 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)
- Matthias Weckmann
Matthias Weckmann was a North German musician and composer of the Baroque period. He was born in Niederdorla and died in Hamburg.- Life :...
(c. 1616–1674)
- Joan Cererols
Joan 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 Kerckhoven
Abraham van den Kerckhoven was a Belgian organist and composer.He was born approximately in 1618 in Mechelen into a family which included many artists, singers and organists. In 1633, Kerckhoven became organist of Saint Catherine Church in Brussels, succeeding Peeter Cornet, and occupied the post...
(c. 1618–c. 1701)
- José Marín (1618–1699)
- Anthoni van Noordt
Anthoni 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)
- Barbara Strozzi
Barbara Strozzi was an Italian Baroque singer and composer.-Life:...
(1619–1677)
- Juan García de Zéspedes
Juan García de Zéspedes was a Mexican composer, singer, and viol player and teacher. 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 interim capacity. The title maestro became permanent in...
(c. 1619–1678)
- Johann Rosenmüller
Johann Rosenmüller was a German Baroque composer who played a part in transmitting Italian musical styles to the north....
(1619–1684)
- Johannes Baptista Dolar
Jan Křtitel Tolar [Johannes Baptista Dolar] - composer and contemporary of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Andreas Hofer and Pavel Josef Vejvanovský....
(c. 1620–1673)
- Johann Heinrich Schmelzer
Johann 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)
- Francisco Martins (1620–1680)
- Adam Drese
Adam 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)
- Isabella Leonarda
Isabella Leonarda was an Italian composer from Novara. At the age of sixteen Isabella entered the Collegio di S Orsola, an Ursuline convent, where she taught music. She acceded to the position of mother superior in 1686, and by 1696 she was madre vicaria.Leonarda wrote over 200 works...
(1620–1704)
- Matthew Locke
Matthew Locke was an English Baroque composer and music theorist.As a boy he was trained in the choir of Exeter Cathedral, under Edward Gibbons, the brother of Orlando Gibbons...
(c. 1621–1677)
- Jean Lacquemant, known as Dubuisson (c. 1622–1680)
- Gaspar de Verlit
Gaspar 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 Zinnik and singing master at St. Nicolas Church in Brussels. In 1658, he became chaplain at the court chapel. He published two...
(1622–1682)
- Antonio Cesti
Antonio 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)
- Dietrich Becker
Dietrich 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)
- Jan Adam Reincken (1623–1722)
- Francesco Provenzale
Francesco 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 Roberday
François 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 Ahle
Johann Rudolph Ahle , was a German composer, organist, theorist, and Protestant church musician.-Biography:...
(1625–1673)
- Jacques Gallot
Jacques Gallot was a French lutenist and composer....
(c. 1625–1696)
- Wolfgang Carl Briegel
Wolfgang 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 Couperin
Louis Couperin was a French Baroque composer who made significant contributions to the development of Baroque keyboard music. A skillful harpsichordist, organist, and gambist, he was one of the founders of the French harpsichord school and invented the genre of unmeasured prelude for harpsichord...
(c. 1626–1661)
- Giovanni Legrenzi
Giovanni Legrenzi was an Italian composer of opera, vocal and instrumental music, and organist, of the Baroque era...
(1626–1690)
- Charles Mouton
Charles 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)
- Johann Caspar Kerll (1627–1693)
- Nicolas Gigault
Nicolas 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)
- Robert Cambert
Robert Cambert , was a French composer principally of opera.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)
- Paul Hainlein (1628–1686)
- Gustav Düben (1628–1690)
- Christoph Bernhard
Christoph Bernhard was born on 1 January 1628, in Kolberg, Pomerania, and died on 14 November, 1692, in Dresden. He studied in Gdańsk and Warsaw, and by the age of 20 was singing at the electoral court in Dresden under Heinrich Schütz. He then spent a year in Copenhagen to study singing with...
(1628–1692)
- Lelio Colista
Lelio 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)
- Andreas Hofer
Andreas Hofer was a German composer of the Baroque age. 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 noted for his large scaled...
(1629–1684)
- Johann Michael Nicolai (1629–1685)
- Jean-Henri d'Anglebert
Jean-Henri d'Anglebert was a French composer and harpsichordist in the court of King Louis XIV of France....
(1629–1691)
- Lady Mary Dering
Lady Mary Dering was an English composer. She was daughter of Daniel Harvey of Combe, Croydon, Surrey, a turkey merchant in London Lady Mary Dering (née Harvey) (bap. 3 September 1629 – 7 February 1704) was an English composer. She was daughter of Daniel Harvey of Combe, Croydon, Surrey, a...
(1629–1704)
- Filipe da Madre de Deus
Frei 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)
- Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli
Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli was an Italian composer and violinist.Little is known of Pandolfi Mealli except that which is mentioned by the annals of the court of Charles Archduke Ferdinand of Habsburg in Innsbruck as employed by the court in 1660. From his works, only two collections of...
(c. 1630?–1669/1670)
- Nicolas Lebègue
Nicolas 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 Scherer
Sebastian 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 Lully
Jean-Baptiste de Lully , was a French composer of Italian birth, who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He became a French subject in 1661.-Biography:...
(1632–1687)
- Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers
Guillaume-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 Vitali
Giovanni Battista Vitali was an Italian composer and violone player.Vitali spent all of his life in the Emilian region, moving to Modena in 1674...
(1632–1692)
- Sebastian Knüpfer
Sebastian Knüpfer Sebastian Knüpfer Sebastian Knüpfer (6 September 1633; Asch, Bavaria (now Aš, Czech Republic 10 October 1676; Leipzig, Germany) was a German composer. He was Kantor of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, and director of the city’s music.-External links:...
(1633–1676)
- Pavel Josef Vejvanovský
Pavel 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 Abel
Clamor Heinrich Abel was a German composer, violinist and organist.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 Draghi
Antonio 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)
- Adam Krieger
Adam Krieger was a German composer. Born in Driesen, Neumark, he studied organ with Samuel Scheidt in Halle. He succeeded Johann Rosenmuller as organist at Leipzig's Nikolaikirche and founded the city's Collegium Musicum before settling for the rest of his career in Dresden.His fame rests on his...
(1634–1666)
- Andrés de Sola (1634–1696)
- Pietro Simone Agostini (c. 1635–1680)
- Daniel Danielis (1635–1696)
- Paul Esterházy (1635–1713)
- Johann Wilhelm Furchheim (c. 1635–1682)
- Joannes Florentius a Kempis
Joannes 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)
- Jacek Różycki
Jacek 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)
- Esaias Reusner
Esaias Reusner was a German lutenist and composer.His first lute teacher was his father Esaias . He was a child prodigy and together with his father he traveled and performed at various courts. Then he studied with an unknown French lutenist...
(1636–1679)
- Dieterich Buxtehude
Dieterich Buxtehude was a German-Danish organist and a highly regarded composer of the Baroque period. His organ works comprise a central part of the standard organ repertoire and are frequently performed at recitals and church services...
(c. 1637–1707)
- Bernardo Storace
Bernardo 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:Nothing is known about his life,...
(1637–1707)
- Bernardo Pasquini
right|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. He came to Rome while still young and entered the service of Prince Borghese; later he became organist of...
(1637–1710)
- Diogo Dias Melgás
Diogo Dias Melgás was a Portuguese composer of polyphony.-Life:Diogo Dias Melgás was born in Cuba, Alentejo, on April 14 1538. He was a choirboy at the Colégio da Claustra in Évora in 1546...
(1638–1700)
- Alessandro Stradella
Alessandro Stradella was an Italian composer of the middle Baroque. He was born in Rome, and was murdered in Genoa....
(1639–1682)
- Johann Christoph Pezel
Johann 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)
- António Marques Lésbio (1639–1709)
- Amalia Catharina
Amalia Catharina 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 meant for private...
(1640–1697)
- Pedro de Araújo (1640–1705)
- Antonia Bembo
Antonia 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 Draghi
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 Hacquart
Carolus Hacquart was a composer, born c. 1640 in Bruges, Belgium. Around 1670 he moved to the northern Netherlands, where he became active as a composer, teacher and an organiser of concerts...
(c. 1640–1701?)
- Paolo Lorenzani (1640–1713)
- André Raison
André 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)
- Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe
Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe was a French composer and violist.It is speculated by various scholars that Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe was of Lyonnaise 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 Sanz
Gaspar Sanz was an Aragonese Spanish composer and priest born in Calanda in the area of Bajo Aragón. He became the dominant figure of Spanish baroque music, and has influenced several composers well into the twentieth century...
(1640–1710)
- Nicolaus Adam Strungk (1640–1700)
- Esther Elizabeth Velkiers (c. 1640–after 1685)
- Johann Christoph Bach
Johann Christoph Bach was a German composer 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)
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Marc-Antoine Charpentier was a French composer of the Baroque era.He was a prolific and versatile composer, producing music of the highest quality in several genres...
(1643–1704)
- Maria Cattarina Calegari
Cornelia [Maria Cattarina ] Calegari , was an Italian composer, singer, organist, and nun...
(1644–1675)
- Ignazio Albertini
Ignazio Albertini, also known as Ignazio Albertino was an Italian Baroque musician and composer.Nothing is known about Albertini's early years in Italy. He is thought to have been born in Milan, and first surfaces in Vienna in a letter of recommendation from the distinguished violinist Johann...
(1644–1685)
- Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644–1704)
- Juan Bautista José Cabanilles
Juan Bautista José Cabanilles was a Spanish organist and composer at Valencia cathedral. He is considered by many to have been the greatest Spanish baroque composer, and is sometimes called the Spanish Bach.- Biography :He probably began his musical career as a singer in a choir of a local church...
(1644–1712)
- Johann Samuel Drese
Johann 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....
(c. 1644–1716)
- Johann Georg Conradi (1645–1699)
- August Kühnel
August Kühnel was a German composer and accomplished viola da gamba performer....
(1645–c. 1700)
- Christian Ritter (c. 1645–c. 1725)
- Juan de Araujo
Juan de Araujo was a musicist and composer of the Early to Mid Baroque.By 1670 he was nominated maestro de capilla at the Lima Cathedral. In the following years he travelled to Panama and most probably to Guatemala...
(1646–1712)
- Rupert Ignaz Mayr (1646–1712)
- René Pignon Descoteaux (c. 1646–1728)
- Johann Theile
Johann 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 Humfrey
Pelham Humfrey was the first to prominence of the new generation of English composers at the beginning of the Restoration....
(1647–1674)
- Giovanni Maria Capelli (1648–1726)
- Johann Schelle (1648–1701)
- John Blow
John Blow was an English composer and organist. His pupils included William Croft and Henry Purcell.Blow was probably born at Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire...
(1649–1708)
- Pieter Bustijn (c. 1649–1729)
- Pascal Collasse
Pascal 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)
- Francisco Guerau
Francisco 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)
- Johann Philipp Krieger (1649–1725)
- Johann Valentin Meder
Johann Valentin Meder was a German composer, organist, and singer.Meder was born in Wasungen, near Meiningen, to a musical family with his father and four brothers all being organists or Kantors...
(1649–1719)
- Nicolo Borboni (fl. 1614–1641)
- Alba Trissina (fl. 1622)
- Bartholomäus Aich
Bartholomäus 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 Franciscan abbey of Lindau/Lake Constance.His only surviving work is the...
(fl. 1648)
- Bernardo Clavijo del Castillo (fl. c. 1650–c. 1700)
- Bernardo Gianoncelli (fl. c. 1650)
- Gervise Gerrard (16??–16??)
- Louis Grabu
Louis Grabu, Grabut, Grabue, or Grebus was a Catalan-born, French-trained composer and violinist who was mainly active in England....
(fl. 1665–1693)
- Bartłomiej Pękiel (d. c. 1670)
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 Amodei
Cataldo 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. His compositions are religious in function and include oratorios, motets and...
(c. 1650–c. 1695)
- Petronio Franceschini
Petronio 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...
(c. 1650–c. 1680)
- Christian Geist
Christian 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)
- Guillaume Minoret (c. 1650-1717)
- Johann Anton Losy von Losinthal
Jan 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...
, (Comte d'Logy) (c. 1650–1721)
- Antonio de Salazar (c. 1650–1715)
- Giovanni Battista Bassani
Giovanni 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)
- Stanisław Sylwester Szarzyński (c. 1650-c. 1720)
- Robert de Visée
Robert 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–c. 1725)
- Pietro Torri (1650–1737)
- Johann Jacob Walther
Johann 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...
(1650–1717)
- Johann Georg Ahle
Johann 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....
(1651–1706)
- Domenico Gabrielli
Domenico Gabrielli was an Italian Baroque composer and virtuoso violoncello player. He was apparently not related to the Venetian Gabrielis....
(1651/1659–1690)
- Johann Krieger
Johann Philipp Krieger was a German Baroque composer and organist. He was the elder brother of Johann Krieger.-Early years:The Krieger brothers came from a Nuremberg family of rugmakers...
(1651–1735)
- David Petersen
David Petersen was a violinist and composer of north German origin active in the Netherlands ....
(c. 1651–after 1709)
- Georg Muffat
Georg Muffat was a Baroque composer.-Life:He was born in Megeve, 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 Pachelbel
Johann Pachelbel was a German Baroque composer, organist and teacher, who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak...
(1653–1706)
- Arcangelo Corelli
Arcangelo Corelli was an Italian violinist and composer of Baroque music.-Biography:Corelli was born at Fusignano, Romagna, in the current-day province of Ravenna. Little is known about his early life. His master on the violin was Giovanni Battista Bassani...
(1653–1713)
- Carlo Francesco Pollarolo
Carlo 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)
- John Abell
John Abell was an 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)
- Servaes de Koninck
Servaes de Koninck, or Servaes de Konink, Servaas de Koninck or Servaas de Konink Servaes de Koninck, or Servaes de Konink, Servaas de Koninck or Servaas de Konink Servaes de Koninck, or Servaes de Konink, Servaas de Koninck or Servaas de Konink (Dendermonde or Ghent (Flanders), c. 1654 – Amsterdam...
(c. 1654–c. 1701)
- Vincent Lübeck
Vincent 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 (1654–1730)
- Sébastien de Brossard
Sébastien de Brossard was a French music theorist who was born in Dompierre, Orne, France on 12 September 1655 and died at Meaux on 10 April 1730....
(1655–1730)
- Johann Paul von Westhoff
Johann 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)
- Marin Marais
Marin 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)
- Georg Reutter
Georg Reutter was an Austrian organist, theorbo player and composer.-Biography:Reutter was 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. He was ennobled in Rome on 8 January 1695 by Prince...
(1656–1738)
- Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer was a German Baroque composer...
(1656–1746)
- Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (1657-1714)
- Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657–1726)
- Gaetano Greco (c. 1657–c. 1728)
- Giuseppe Torelli
Giuseppe 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 Nascinbeni (born 1658; fl. 1674)
- Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell , was an English Baroque composer. Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements but devised a peculiarly English style of Baroque music.-Early life and career:...
(1659–1695)
- Francesco Antonio Pistocchi (1659-1726)
- Antonio Veracini
Antonio Veracini was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era.Antonio Veracini was born in Florence, Italy...
(1659–1745)
- Rosa Giacinta Badalla
Rosa 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...
(1660–1710)
- André Campra
André Campra was a French composer and conductor.Chronologically situated between Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau , Campra participated in the renewal of French opera.-Biography:Campra was the son of Jean-François Campra, a surgeon and violinist from Graglia, in...
(1660–1744)
- Sebastian Durón (1660–1716)
- Gottfried Finger
Gottfried 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 Kuhnau
Johann Kuhnau was a German composer, organist and harpsichordist.Kuhnau was born in Geising. He preceded Johann Sebastian Bach as cantor of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig. There Kuhnau taught Johann David Heinichen and Christoph Graupner, both of whom were to become composers...
(1660–1722)
- Gaspard Le Roux
Gaspard 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)
- Alessandro Scarlatti
Alessandro 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 Schenck
Johannes 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)
- Damian Stachowicz (c. 1660 - 1699)
- Sybrant Van Noordt, Jr. (1660–1705)
- Christian Friedrich Witt
Christian 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. 1660–1716)
- Ignazio Pollice
Ignazio 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....
(Pulici) (fl. 1684-1705)
- Georg Böhm
Georg 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:...
(1661–1733)
- Henri Desmarest
Henri Desmarets was a French composer of the middle Baroque period. He was a child prodigy and sang as a boy soprano in the royal chapel. His opera "Endymion" was staged at Versailles in March, 1682. In 1683, King Louis XIV gave Desmarets a 900-livre pension.In 1696, Demartes' wife died...
(1661–1741)
- Francesco Gasparini
Francesco Gasparini was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher. Born in Camaiore, near Lucca, he was musical director of the Pio Ospedale della Pietà, where he employed Antonio Vivaldi.-Works:...
(1661–1727)
- Giacomo Antonio Perti
Giacomo 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)
- Angiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi (1662–1708)
- Pirro Capacelli Albergati (1663–1735)
- Franz Xaver Murschhauser
Franz Xaver Murschhauser was a German composer and theorist.He was born in Zabern, 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 Siret
Nicolas 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)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau
Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow or Zachau was a German musician and composer. He was George Frideric Handel's first music teacher and organist at Halle's Church of Our Lady. He taught Handel how to play the violin, organ, and harpsichord, as well as how to compose music...
(1663–1712)
- Daniel Purcell
Daniel 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)
- Louis Lully
Louis 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 his father had had, though he did collaborate with his brother Jean-Louis to compose some lyric...
(sometimes de Lully) (1664–1734)
- Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter
Benedikt 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 Bruhns
Nicolaus Bruhns was one of the greatest organists and composers of his time...
(1665–1697)
- Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki
Grzegorz 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)
- Johann Nicolaus Hanff (1665–1711)
- Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre was a French musician, harpsichordist and composer.-Life and works:...
(1665–1729)
- Jean-Baptiste Lully (sometimes de Lully) (the younger) (1665–1743)
- Francisco Valls
Francisco Valls was a Spanish composer, theorist and Kapellmeister. Among his most known works are the mass Missa Scala Aretina and tract Mapa Armónico Práctico.-Background of Francisco Valls:...
(1665–1747)
- Domenico Zanatta (c. 1665–1748)
- Johann Heinrich Buttstett
Johann Heinrich Buttstett was a German Baroque organist and composer. Although he was Johann Pachelbel's most important pupil and one of the last major exponents of the south German organ tradition, Buttstett is best remembered for a dispute with Johann Mattheson.-Life:Buttstett was born in...
(1666–1727)
- Attilio Ariosti
Attilio 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)
- Jean-Féry Rebel
Jean-Féry Rebel was an innovative French Baroque composer and violinist.-Biography:Rebel was a student of the great composer Jean-Baptiste Lully. By 1699, Rebel had become first violinist of the Académie royale de musique and at the Opéra. Rebel traveled to Spain in 1700...
(1666–1747)
- Bernardo Tonini (c. 1666–after 1727)
- Jean-Louis Lully
Jean-Louis Lully was a French musician and composer, and the younger son of Jean-Baptiste Lully....
(sometimes de Lully) (1667–1688)
- Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667–1737)
- Johann Christoph Pepusch
Johann Christoph Pepusch was a German-born composer who spent most of his working life in England.At age 14, he was appointed to the Prussian court. About 1700, he settled in England where he was one of the founders, in 1710, of The Academy of Vocal Music, which in 1726 was renamed The Academy of...
(1667–1752)
- Antonio Lotti
Antonio 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)
- François Couperin
François Couperin was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. François Couperin was known as "Couperin le Grand" to distinguish him from the other members of the musically talented Couperin family.-Life:Couperin was born in Paris...
(1668–1733)
- John Eccles
John Eccles was an English composer.Born in London, eldest son of professional musician Solomon Eccles, John Eccles was appointed to the King's Private Musick in 1694, and in 1700 became Master of the King's Musick...
(1668–1735)
- Jean Gilles
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)
- Georg von Bertouch
Georg von Bertouch was a German-born Baroque composer and military officer who dwelt during most of his adult life in Norway.-Biography:...
(1668-1743)
- Louis Marchand
Louis 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 Marcello
Alessandro Marcello was an Italian nobleman and dilettante who excelled in various areas, including poetry, philosophy, mathematics and, perhaps most notably, music.-Biography:...
(1669–1747)
- Andreas Armsdorff (1670–1699)
- Antonio Caldara
Antonio 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)
- Charles Dieupart
Charles Dieupart is a musician of French origin, who was most likely born in Paris circa 1667 and died in London around 1740. He published Six Suittes de clavessin , which exerted a significant influence on J.S...
(c. 1670-c. 1740)
- Giovanni Battista Bononcini
Giovanni 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)
- Richard Leveridge
Richard Leveridge was an English bass singer of the London stage and a composer of baroque music, including many popular songs....
(1670–1758)
- Louis de Caix d'Hervelois
Louis 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)
- Gaspard Corrette
Gaspard 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)
- Tomaso Albinoni
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni was a Venetian Baroque composer...
(1671–1751) or (1674–1745)
- Antoine Forqueray
Antoine 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)
- Francesco Antonio Bonporti
Francesco 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)
- Nicolas de Grigny
Nicolas 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 Mancini
Francesco Mancini is an Italian footballer. He last played for Matera in December 2007.-Foggia:He joined Bisceglie in summer 1987, and left for U.S. Foggia of Serie C1 in October 1987, where he spent a decade on. He played in Serie A between 1991 and 1995.He played 2 Serie B games for Foggia in...
(1672–1737)
- Georg Caspar Schürmann
Georg Caspar Schürmann was a German Baroque composer who was born in 1672 in the town of Idensen bei Neustadt am Rübenberge and died 25 February 1751 in Wolfenbüttel. His name also appears as Schurmann and in Hochdeutsch as Scheuermann....
(1672/1673–1751)
- Antonio de Literes
Antonio de Literes was a Spanish composer of zarzuelas, a type of performance that mixes spoken word, song and dance...
(1673–1747)
- Jeremiah Clarke
Jeremiah Clarke was an English baroque composer.Thought to have been born in London in 1674, Clarke was a pupil of John Blow at St Paul's Cathedral. He later became organist at the Chapel Royal. "A violent and hopeless passion for a very beautiful lady of a rank superior to his own" caused him to...
(c. 1674–1707)
- Reinhard Keiser
Reinhard 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 decades.He was born in...
(1674–1739)
- Pierre Dumage
Pierre 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 Hotteterre
Jacques-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.Born in Paris, he was the son of Martin Hotteterre and Marie Crespy...
(1674–1763)
- Evaristo Felice dall'Abaco (1675–1742)
- Michel de la Barre
Michel de la Barre was a French composer and renowned flautist known as being the first person to publish solo flute music. He played in the Académie Royale de Musique, the Musettes and Hautbois de Poitou and the court chamber music....
(c. 1675–1745)
- Francesco Venturini (c. 1675–1745)
- Johann Bernhard Bach
Johann 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 Clérambault
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault was a French musician, born and died in Paris , best known as an organist and composer.-Biography:...
(1676–1749)
- Giacomo Facco
Giacomo 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)
- Johann Ludwig Bach
Johann 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)
- Johann Wilhelm Drese
Johann 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. In 1702, he spent eight months in Italy, with the aim of perfecting himself at composition. Little is known of his activities...
(1677–1745)
- Christian Petzold
Not to be confused with the of Die innere Sicherheit Christian Petzold was a German composer and organist...
(1677–1733)
- William Croft
William 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)
- Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed il Prete Rosso , was a baroque composer and Venetian priest, as well as a famous virtuoso violinist, born and raised in the Republic of Venice...
(1678–1741)
- Manuel de Zumaya
Manuel 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)
- Jan Dismas Zelenka
Jan Dismas Zelenka, also known as Johann Dismas Zelenka , was a Czech Baroque composer. Zelenka played the violone, the largest and lowest member of the viol family, analogous to the double bass in the violin family of stringed instruments.-Life:Zelenka was born in Louňovice pod Blaníkem, a small...
(1679–1745)
- Pietro Filippo Scarlatti
Pietro 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)
- Jean-Baptiste Loeillet (of London) (1680–1730)
- Giuseppe Fedeli, known as 'Saggione' (c. 1680–c. 1745)
- William Corbett
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)
- Françoise-Charlotte de Senneterre Ménétou (born 1680; fl. 1691)
- Giovanni Reali (c. 1681-after 1727)
- Johann Mattheson
Johann 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)
- Georg Philipp Telemann
Georg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque music composer and multi-instrumentalist, born in Magdeburg. Self-taught in music, he studied law at the University of Leipzig...
(1681–1767)
- Giuseppe Valentini
Giuseppe Valentini was an Italian violinist, painter, poet, and composer, though he is known chiefly as a composer of inventive instrumental music...
(1681–1753)
- Jean-François Dandrieu
Jean-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 Mouret
Jean-Joseph Mouret was a French composer whose dramatic works made him one of the leading exponents of Baroque music in his country...
(1682–1738)
- Giovanni Francesco di Caspará
Giovanni Francesco di Caspará was a minor composer of the Baroque and early Rococo periods. He was born in Milan in 1682, reportedly in mid-July. He studied in Bologna and Rome before going to work in Venice, where he met Antonio Vivaldi and possibly studied with him...
(1682-1777)
- Christoph Graupner
Christoph 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 Heinichen
Johann 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 Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era...
(1683–1764)
- François d'Agincourt
François d'Agincourt was a French composer, harpsichordist and organist.-Biography and works:...
(1684–1758)
- Peter Ludwig Biermann (also Pietro Ludovico Bermagno) (1684-1776)
- Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský
Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský was a Czech composer, organist and teacher of the baroque era...
(1684–1742)
- Francesco Durante
Francesco 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 Manfredini
Francesco 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 Gottfried Walther
Johann Gottfried Walther was a German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque era...
(1684–1748)
- Lodovico Giustini
Lodovico Giustini was an Italian composer and keyboard player of the late Baroque and early Classical eras. He was the first composer ever to write music for the piano.-Life:...
(1685–1743)
- Jacques Loeillet
Jacques 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.He served as an oboist for the Elector in Bavaria...
(1685–1748)
- Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organist whose ecclesiastical 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)
- Giuseppi Matteo Alberti (1685–1751)
- Domenico Scarlatti
Giuseppe 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)
- George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel was a German-English Baroque composer, who is famous for his operas, oratorios, and concerti grossi. His life and music may justly be described as "cosmopolitan": he was born in Germany, trained in Italy, and spent most of his life in England...
(1685–1759)
- Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel
Wilhelm 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)
- Louis-Antoine Dornel
Louis-Antoine Dornel was a French composer, harpsichordist, organist and violinist, who lived in Paris.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 d'Agincourt...
(c. 1685–1765)
- Benedetto Marcello
Benedetto Marcello was an Italian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher.-Life:...
(1686–1739)
- Nicola Porpora
Nicola Porpora was an Italian composer of Baroque operas and teacher of singing, whose most famous singing student was the castrato Farinelli.-Biography:...
(1686–1768)
- Sylvius Leopold Weiss
Silvius 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)
- Johann Georg Pisendel
Johann 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....
(1687–1755)
- Francesco Geminiani
thumb|230px|Francesco Geminiani.Francesco Saverio Geminiani was an Italian violinist, composer, and music theorist.-Biography:Geminiani was born at Lucca....
(1687–1762)
- Fortunato Chelleri (1688–1757)
- Johann Friedrich Fasch
Johann 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)
- Jean-Baptiste Loeillet de Ghent (or 'of Ghent') (1688–1720)
- Thomas Roseingrave
-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. In 1709 he was sent to Italy with the financial assistance of St Paul's Cathedral in order "to...
(1688–1766)
- Domenico Zipoli
Domenico Zipoli was an Italian Baroque composer. As a Jesuit he volunteered to work in the Reductions of Paraguay where his musical expertise did much to develop the natural musical talents of the Guaranis...
(1688–1726)
- Jacques Aubert
Jacques Aubert , also known as Jacques Aubert le Vieux , was a French composer and violinist....
(1689–1753)
- Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier was a French baroque composer of instrumental music, cantatas, opera ballets, and vocal music...
(1689–1755)
- Pietro Gnocchi
Pietro 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)
- Pietro Baldassare
Pietro Baldassare was a Baroque composer, possibly born in Rome or Brescia, Italy before the year 1690. Not much is known about him, except that was known as the master of singing in Brescia. He died some time after the year 1768. Few of the compositions attributed to Baldassare survive. Some of...
(before 1690-after 1768)
- Robert Woodcock (1690–1728)
- Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel
Gottfried 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)
- Charles Theodore Pachelbel
Charles Theodore Pachelbel was a German composer, organist and harpsichordist of the late Baroque era...
(1690–1750)
- Jacques-Christophe Naudot
Jacques-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)
- Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin
Pierre-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)
- Francesco Maria Veracini
thumb|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)
- Gottlieb Muffat
Gottlieb 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)
- Francesco Barsanti
Francesco Barsanti was an Italian flautist, oboist and composer.Barsanti was born in the Tuscan city of Lucca in 1690; a city vastly venerated for its prominence in musical culture; boasting notable denizens such as Francesco Geminiani, Gioseffo Guami, Luigi Boccherini, Giacomo Puccini and Alfredo...
(1690–1772)
- Jan Francisci
Jan Francisci was an organist and composer born in Neusohl, Kingdom of Hungary . In 1709, he suceeded 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)
- Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer
Unico Willem van Wassenaer, Count of the Empire, was a Dutch diplomat and composer....
(1692–1766)
- Giuseppe Tartini
Giuseppe Tartini was an Italian 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 appears...
(1692–1770)
- Louis-Claude Daquin
Louis-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)
- Leonardo Leo
Leonardo Leo , more correctly Lionardo Oronzo Salvatore de Leo was an Italian Baroque composer.-Biography:...
(1694–1744)
- Johan Helmich Roman
Johan Helmich Roman was a Swedish Baroque composer...
(1694–1758)
- Giuseppe Sammartini
Giuseppe 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 Locatelli
Pietro 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 Quinault
Marie-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)
- Maurice Greene
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)
- Andrea Zani
Andrea 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)
- Pierre Février
Pierre 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...
(1696–1760)
- Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch
Conrad 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...
(1696–1765)
- Johann Melchior Molter
Johann 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)
- Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel
Cornelius 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 Falckenhagen
Adam 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)
- Jean-Marie Leclair
Jean-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.-Biography:...
l'aîné (1697–1764)
- Giovanni Benedetto Platti
Giovanni Benedetto Platti was an Italian composer.-Life:...
(1697–1763)
- Johann Joachim Quantz
Johann Joachim Quantz was a German flautist, flute maker and composer.-Biography:Quantz was born in Oberscheden, near Göttingen, Germany, and died in Potsdam....
(1697–1773)
- Riccardo Broschi
Riccardo Broschi was a composer of baroque music and the brother of the opera singer Carlo Broschi, known as Farinelli....
(c. 1698–1756)
- François Francoeur
François Francoeur was a French violinist and composer.-Biography:He was born in Paris, the son of Joseph Francoeur, a basse de violon player and member of the 24 violons du roy. Francoeur was instructed in music by his father and joined the Académie Royale de Musique as a violinist at age 15...
(1698–1787)
- Jean-Baptiste Forqueray
Jean-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 29 pieces for viol and continuo which he attributed to his father...
le fils (1699–1782)
- Joseph Gibbs
Joseph Gibbs , was an English composer.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 Hasse
thumb|250pxJohann 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)
- Johann Christian Hertel (1699–1754)
- Jan Zach
Jan Zach was a Czech composer, violinist and organist.In 1737 Zach applied for the position of music director at St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague. He was not accepted for this position, and in 1745 he left Prague to become kapellmeister for Mainz's Prince Elector...
(1699–1773)
- Marieta Morosina Priuli (fl. 1665)
- Le Sieur de Machy (d. after 1692)
- John Baston
John Baston, English Baroque composer. . A flautist and recorder player, he performed in his own ‘interval music’ concertos in London; several of these lively pieces were published....
(fl. c. 1700)
- Michielina Della Pietà
Michielina della Pietà was an Italian composer, violinist, organist, and teacher of music....
(fl. c. 1701–1744)
- Camilla de Rossi
Camilla 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)
- Julie Pinel (fl. 1710–1737)
- Nicola Matteis
Nicola Matteis was a leading violinist in London and a composer of significant popularity in his time.Very little is known of his early life...
(d. 1714)
- Mrs Philarmonica (fl. 1715)
- Gottfried Lindemann (d. 1741)
- Benoit Guillemant (fl. 1746–1757)
- Charles Dollé
Charles 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)
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 eraA 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:
- Domenico Dalla Bella (fl. early 18th century, Venice)
- Caterina Benedicta Grazianini
Caterina Benedicta Grazianini was a composer active in Vienna, originally from Italy. She was one of the female composers in a group active at the time, who Wellesz believed were regular canonesses, rather than employed at the court. This group included Maria de Raschenau, Maria Margherita...
(fl. early 18th century)
- Maria Margherita Grimani
Maria Margherita Grimani was an Italian composer who, at some points in her life, was active in Vienna. Very little else about her is known. Among her compositions was the first opera by a woman to be performed at the Vienna court theater. She may have lived at the noble court for periods between...
(fl. early 18th century)
- Giovanni Zamboni
Giovanni 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....
(fl. early 18th century)
- Mlle Guédon de Presles (early 18th century–1754)
- Obadiah Shuttleworth
Obadiah 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....
(fl. 1700–1734)
- Johann Bernhard Bach (the younger)
Johann Bernhard Bach was a nephew of Johann Sebastian Bach. He was a German composer and organist....
(1700–1743)
- Jean-Baptiste Masse
Jean 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)
- Sebastian Bodinus
Sebastian 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)
- Giovanni Battista Sammartini
Giovanni 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)
- Michel Blavet
Michel Blavet was a French flute virtuoso.Blavet was born in Besançon, France. Although Blavet taught himself to play almost every instrument, he specialized in the flute and bassoon.The son of a wood turner, Blavet was famous for maintaining impeccable...
(1700–1768)
- Johan Agrell
Johan 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 Rebel
François 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)
- Johann Ernst Eberlin
Johann 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 Nebra (1702–1768)
- Johann Gottlieb Graun
Johann 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 Prague. Appointed Konzertmeister in Merseburg in 1726, he...
(c. 1702-1771)
- Francisco António de Almeida
Francisco 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)
- John Frederick Lampe
John 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 Leclair
Jean-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)
- Carlos Seixas
José António Carlos de Seixas, , was a Portuguese composer, the son of the cathedral organist, Francisco Vaz and Marcelina Nunes....
(1704–1742)
- Carl Heinrich Graun
Carl 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 Pescetti
Giovanni 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 Tůma
František Ignác Antonín Tůma was an important Czech composer of the Baroque era...
(1704–1774)
- Michael Christian Festing
Michael Christian Festing was an English violinist and composer. His reputation lies mostly on his work as a violin virtuoso.-Biography:...
(1705–1752)
- Louis-Gabriel Guillemain
Louis-Gabriel Guillemain was a French composer and violinist, born in Paris.Raised by the Count de Rochechouart, Guillemain learned violin. To complete his studies of the violin, he went to Italy...
(1705–1770)
- Carlo Cecere
Carlo 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 Hayes
William Hayes was a composer, organist, singer and conductor.He trained at Gloucester Cathedral and spent the early part of his working life as organist of St Mary’s, Shrewsbury and Worcester Cathedral...
(1706–1777)
- Jean Barrière
Jean-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 Chilcot (c. 1707–1766)
- Michel Corrette
Michel 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)
- António Teixeira
António 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)
- Georg Reutter (1708–1772)
- Franz Benda
Franz Benda was a Bohemian violinist and composer. He was the brother of Georg 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 Schaffrath
Christoph 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 Avison
Charles Avison 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 Alberti
Domenico Alberti was an Italian singer, harpsichordist, and composer whose works bridge the Baroque and Classical periods....
(c. 1710–1740)
- Thomas Arne (1710–1778)
- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach , the second child and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach, was a German composer and performer. Despite acknowledged genius as an organist, improviser and composer, his income and employment finally became unstable and he died in...
(1710–1784)
- Elisabeth de Haulteterre (b. c. 1710s?; fl. 1737–1768)
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi was an Italian composer, violinist and organist.-Biography:Born at Jesi, 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)
- Barbara of Portugal
Barbara of Portugal , was a Portuguese infanta and later Queen Consort of Spain.-Early life:She was the eldest daughter of King John V of Portugal and his wife, Maria Anna, Archduchess of Austria, a daughter of Emperor Leopold I.Her parents were married in 1708, but for nearly three years the queen...
(1711–1758)
- William Boyce
William Boyce is widely regarded as one of the most important English-born composers of the 18th century....
(1711–1779)
- Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville
Jean-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)
- Frederick the Great
Frederick II was a King of Prussia from the Hohenzollern dynasty. In his role as a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire, he was Frederick IV of Brandenburg. He was in personal union the sovereign prince of the Principality of Neuchâtel...
(1712–1786)
- John Hebden
John 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 Stanley
John Stanley may refer to:* John I Stanley of the Isle of Man , Lord Lieutenant of Ireland* John II Stanley of the Isle of Man , Knight of the Garter* John Stanley...
(1712–1786)
- Johan Henrik Freithoff
Johan Henrik Freithoff was a Norwegian-Danish violinist and composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from Danish wikipedia...
(1713–1767)
- Johann Ludwig Krebs
Johann Ludwig Krebs was a Baroque musician and composer primarily for the pipe organ.-Life:Krebs was born in 1713 in Weimar, 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 Mempel
Johann Nicolaus Mempel was a German musician.He was born in Heyda, near Ilmenau. From 1740 to his death, he was cantor in Apolda...
(1713–1747)
- Pieter Hellendaal
Pieter Hellendaal was an organist and violinist, and one of the most famous composers of Dutch origin in the 1700s. At age 30, he migrated to England where he lived for the last 48 of his 78 years.-Early and Student Years:...
(1721–1799)
- Rosanna Scalfi Marcello (fl. 1723–1742)
- Santa Della Pietà
Santa della Pietà was an Italian singer, composer, and violinist....
(fl. c. 1725–1750, d. after 1774)
- Antonio Soler
Antonio Francisco Javier José Soler Ramos, usually known as Padre Antonio Soler, was a Spanish composer whose works span the late Baroque and early Classical music eras...
(1729–1783)
- Capel Bond
Capel 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. Daniel Bond, and at the age of twelve became apprentice to the...
(1730–1790)
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