Composers From The Baroque Period

Abel, Carl Friedrich

( 1723 - 1787 )

Carl Friedrich Abel (December 22, 1723 – June 20, 1787) was a German composer of the Classical era. He was one of the last professional bass violists. Read More

Bach, Johann Sebastian

( 1685 - 1750 )

Johann Sebastian Bach, (1685-1750) the most renowned member of a distinguished family of German musicians and composers, is considered one of the greatest composers in history. Read More

Bellman, Carl Michael

( 1740 - 1795 )

Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet. He was known as an entertainer and satirist in the 1760s and achieved fame through court patronage. Read More

Boccherini, Luigi

( 1743 - 1805 )

Italian composer. Son of a musician, he received excellent early training and toured widely in Europe as a cellist. Read More

Carolan, Turlough

( 1670 - 1738 )

O'Carolan, Turlough Irish harper and composer. Blinded by smallpox at 18, he travelled throughout Ireland performing his songs and harp pieces. Read More

Cimarosa, Domenico

( 1749 - 1801 )

Domenico Cimarosa , Aversa 17 Dec 1749 - Venice 11 Jan 1801 Italian composer. He trained in Naples as a violinist, keyboard player and composer, and wrote mainly sacred works at first. Read More

Corbetta, Francesco

( 1615 - 1681 )

Francesco Corbetta 1615 - 1681, was an Italian guitar teacher, virtuoso and composer. He worked at the royal court of Louis XIV in Paris and then left for London. Read More

Couperin, Francois

( 1668 - 1733 )

Couperin, Francois ,1668–1733, French harpsichordist and composer, called “le Grand” to distinguish him from the other musicians in his family. Read More

Gluck, Christoph Willibald von

( 1714 - 1787 )

Gluck, Christoph Willibald, German composer who in the 1760s ‘reformed’ the Italian opera seria by placing the emphasis on the text rather than the music. Read More

Handel, Georg Friedrich

( 1685 - 1759 )

Born in Halle (50 miles from Eisenach, Bach's birthplace) in the same year as Bach, Handel studied with Zachau, and became a friend of Mattheson. Read More

Haydn, Franz Joseph

( 1732 - 1809 )

Austrian composer. Intended for the priesthood, he was recruited at age eight to the choir at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, where he learned violin and keyboard. Read More

Kellner, David

( 1670 - 1748 )

David Kellner's fame rests on his thorough-bass treatise Treulicher Unterricht im General-Bass. . . (Hamburg, 1732) and his lute tablature book XVI auserlesene Lauten-Stücke. . . Read More

Johan Anton Logy, was a Bohemian Baroque lute player and composer from Prague. He propagated the so-called French style (stile brisee) of playing in combination with Italian cantabile style. Read More

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

( 1756 - 1791 )

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Austrian composer. Read More

Murcia, Santiago de

( 1682 - 1735 )

Santiago de Murcia remain may have been related to the stringed instrument makers, Gabriel and Antonio de Murcia, but this has never been proven. Read More