Baroque Period composers

Dominico Scalatti

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757) 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. Like his renowned father Alessandro Scarlatti he composed in a variety of musical forms, although today he is known mainly for his 555 keyboard sonatas.

His works include,

• Sonata in E major K 20
• Sonata in D minor K 9
• Sonata in B minor K27
• Sonata in F minor K 69   etc.

                                                                                                                                                          Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist of the Baroque Period. He enriched many established German styles through his skill in counterpoint, harmonic and motivicorganisation, and the adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. Bach wrote much music, which was revered for its intellectual depth, technical command, and artistic beauty. Many of his works are still known today, such as the Brandenburg Concertos, the Mass in B minor, the Well-Tempered Clavier, and his cantatas, chorales, partitas, passions, and organ works.

His works include,

• C major Prelude
• Concerto No.1 in D major
• Toccata and Fugue in D minor
• St.John Passion
• St. Mathew Passion
• 6 Brandenburg Concertos     etc.

George Federic Handel

George Frideric Handel (German: Georg Friedrich Händel (23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music. He received critical musical training in Halle, Hamburg and Italy before settling in London (1712) and becoming a naturalised British subject in 1727. By then he was strongly influenced by the great composers of the Italian Baroque and the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition.

 

His works include,

• Suite No.2 in F major
• Water Music
• Fireworks Music
• Flute Sonata in E minor
• Fitzwilliam Sonata No. 1,2, 3             etc.