Composers in this Course


(Jump past Medieval and Renaisssance to Baroque composers)

The musicians and their primary claim to fame...

(a list of several hundred Baroque composers)
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Medieval composers:  

Duke William IX of Aquitaine  (1071 - 1126)  -  First Troubadour.
Hildegard of Bingen  (1098 - 1179)  German  -  Composer of the first liturgical drama / Morality Play.
Pérotin  (fl. 1200)  French?  -  Composer at Notre Dame, invented 4 part polyphony.
Adam de la Halle  (1250? - 1288?)  French
Guillaume de Machaut  (c. 1300 - 1337)  French
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Renaissance composers:

John Dunstable (c. 1390 - 1453)  English  -  Tramstional figure to Renaissance music
Guillaume Du Fay  (1397 - 1474)  Franco-Flemish  -  First master of the Franco-Flemish school
Josquin des Prez  (1455? - 1521)   Franco-Flemish  -  Master of High Renaissance polyphony
Jacques Arcadelt  (1507 - 1558)  Franco-Flemish  -  Known for his secular madrigals

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina  (1525 - 1594)  Italian  -  Culmination of Late Renaissance polyphony
William Byrd  (c. 1540 - 1623)  English  -  Sacred & Secular Polyphony, Virginal, Consort Music
John Dowland  (1563 - 1626)  English  -  Influential & Popular  Madrigalist
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Guilo Caccini  (1551 - 1618)  Italian  -  Transitional figure, his madrigals influenced early opera
Giovanni Gabrielli  (c. 1555 - 1607)  Italian  -  Transitional figure, Influenced Vocal & Instrumental Mus.
Jan Sweelinck  (c. 1562 - 1621)  Dutch  -  Transitional figure, Keyboard Music
Claudio Monteverdi  (1567 - 1643)  Italian  -  Transitional figure, wrote the first still performed opera.
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Baroque composers:

Girolamo Frescobaldi  (1583 - 1644)  Italian  -  Development of keyboard Music 
Heinrich Shütz  (1585 - 1672)  German   -  Founded north German school, influenced J.S. Bach
Jean-Baptiste Lully  (1632 - 1687)  Italian, to France  -  Court composer of Louis XIV
Dieterich Buxtehude  (1637/39 - 1707)  North German organ composer - influenced Bach 
Marc-Antoine Charpentier  (1643 - 1704)  FrenchVocal music composer
Heinrich Biber  (1644–1704)  Bohemian  -  Early violin sonata composer 
Arcangelo Corelli  (1653 - 1713)  Italian  -  The first master violinist and composer 
Johann Pachelbel  (1653–1706)  German  -  Canon in D (1680)
Henry Purcell  (1659 - 1695)  English  -  Most important English composer before the 20th century
Alessandro Scarlatti  (1660 - 1725)  Italian  -  Mostly known for vocal works, but chamber music, too
François Couperin   (1668 - 1733)  French  -  Keyboard composer
Antonio Vivaldi   (1678 - 1741)  Italian  -  Violin concertos
Jan Dismas Zelenka  (1679–1745)  Bohemian  -  Sacred & secular music, chamber & orchestral music 
George Philipp Telemann  (1681 - 1767)  German  -  Vocal and instrumental music of many types
Jean-Philippe Rameau   (1683 - 1764)  French  -  Opera and keyboard music, court composer of Louis XV
Domenico Scarlatti  (1685 - 1757)  Italian, to Spain  -  Keyboard composer
George Frideric Handel  (1685 - 1759)   German, to England  -  Vocal and instrumental music 
Johann Sebastian Bach  (1685 - 1750)  German  -   Master of all Baroque musical styles except opera 


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