- Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a prolific German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity. - Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, nicknamed "Il Prete Rosso" ("The Red Priest"), was an Italian priest and baroque music composer, as well as a famous violinist; he was born and raised in the Republic of Venice. "The Four Seasons", a series of four violin concertos, are his best known works and highly popular Baroque music pieces. - George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel was a German-born British Baroque composer who was a leading composer of concerti grossi, operas and oratorios. Born in Germany as Georg Friederich Händel, he dwelt during most of his adult life in England, becoming a subject of the British crown on 22 January 1727. His most famous works are "Messiah", an oratorio set to texts from the King James Bible, "Water Music" and "Music for the Royal Fireworks". - Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell (September 10 (?),, 1659–November 21, 1695), a Baroque composer, is generally considered to be one of England's greatest composers. He has often been called England's finest native composer. Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements but devised a peculiarly English style of Baroque music. - Georg Philipp Telemann
Georg Philipp Telemann (March 14, 1681 - June 25, 1767) was a German Baroque music composer, born in Magdeburg. Self-taught in music, he studied law at the University of Leipzig. The most prolific composer in history (at least in terms of surviving oeuvre), he was a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach and a lifelong friend of George Frideric Handel. While in the present day Bach is generally thought of as the greater composer, … - Johann Pachelbel
Johann Pachelbel (baptized September 1, 1653 - March 3, 1706) was a German Baroque composer, organist and teacher who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most important composers of the middle Baroque. - Domenico Scarlatti
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (October 26, 1685 - July 23, 1757) was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in Spain and Portugal. He was extremely influential in the development of the Classical period in music through his individual style, though he lived mostly during the Baroque era. - Alessandro Scarlatti
Alessandro Scarlatti (May 2, 1660 - October 24, 1725) was a 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. - Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste de Lully, originally Giovanni Battista di Lulli (November 28, 1632 - March 22, 1687), 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. - Arcangelo Corelli
Arcangelo Corelli (February 17, 1653 - January 8, 1713) was an influential Italian violinist and composer of Baroque music. - Jan Dismas Zelenka
Jan Dismas Zelenka, also known as Johann Dismas Zelenka was a Czech Baroque composer whose music was notably adventurous with great harmonic invention and mastery of counterpoint. 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. Zelenka was born in Louňovice pod Blaníkem, a small market town southeast of Prague in what was then Bohemia. - François Couperin
François Couperin (November 10, 1668 - September 11, 1733) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. François Couperin was known as "Couperin le Grand" (Couperin the Great) to distinguish him from the other members of the musically talented Couperin family. - Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi (May 15, 1567 (baptized) - November 29, 1643) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer. His work marks the transition from Renaissance to Baroque music, and during his long life he produced works that can be classified in both categories. Monteverdi has been regarded as a revolutionary who brought about change in musical style. He wrote one of the earliest operas, "Orfeo", … - Marin Marais
Marin Marais (31 May 1656, Paris - 15 August 1728, Paris) 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. He did quite well as court musician, and in 1679 was appointed "ordinaire de la chambre du roy pour la viole", a title he kept until 1725. - Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau (September 25, 1683 - September 12, 1764) was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera, and was attacked by those who preferred Lully's style. - Antonio Caldara
Antonio Caldara (1670 or 1671 - December 26, 1736) was an Italian Baroque composer. Caldara was born in Venice (exact date unknown), the son of a violinist. He became a chorister at St Mark's Cathedral also in Venice, where he learned several instruments, probably under the instruction of Giovanni Legrenzi. In 1699 he relocated to Mantua, where he became "maestro di cappella" to the Duke. He remained there until 1707, then moved on to Rome, … - Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz (October 8 (JC), 1585 Köstritz - November 6, 1672 Dresden) was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and is often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi. He wrote what is thought to be the first German opera, "Dafne", performed at Torgau in 1627; however, the music has since been lost. - Tomaso Albinoni
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (June 8, 1671, Venice, Republic of Venice - January 17, 1751, Venice, Republic of Venice) was a Venetian Baroque composer. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, some of which is regularly recorded. The "Adagio in G minor" attributed to him (actually a later reconstruction) is one of the most frequently recorded pieces of Baroque music. - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (born December 23, 1689 in Thionville; died October 28, 1755 in Roissy-en-Brie) was a French baroque composer of instrumental music, cantatas, opera ballets, and vocal music. Boismortier was purely a composer and one of the first to have no patrons: he made his living simply by writing new works of music. - Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 - February 24, 1704) was a French composer of the Baroque era. He was a prolific and versatile composer, producing music of the highest quality in several genres. His mastery in the composition of sacred vocal music was recognized and acknowledged by his contemporaries. - John Dowland
John Dowland (1563 - buried February 20, 1626) was an English composer, singer, and lutenist. He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as "Come, heavy sleep" (the basis for Benjamin Britten's "Nocturnal"), "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 source of repertoire for classical guitarists during the twentieth century. - Giovanni Gabrieli
Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554/1557 - August 12, 1612) was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of his time, and represents the culmination of the style of the Venetian School, at the time of the shift from Renaissance to Baroque idioms. - Girolamo Frescobaldi
Girolamo Frescobaldi (baptized mid-September 1583 - March 1, 1643) was an Italian musician, one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. There is no evidence that the Frescobaldi of Ferrara were related to the homonymous Florentine noble house. - Johann Jakob Froberger
Johann Jakob Froberger (May 18, 1616 - May 7, 1667) was a German Baroque composer, keyboard virtuoso, and organist. He was very well known during his lifetime and modern scholars consider him to be one of the most important keyboard composers before Johann Sebastian Bach. - Giacomo Carissimi
Giacomo Carissimi (baptized April 18, 1605 - January 12, 1674), was an Italian composer, one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque, or, more accurately, the Roman School of music. - Georg Muffat
Georg Muffat (baptized June 1, 1653 - February 23, 1704) was a Baroque composer. - Johann Mattheson
Johann Mattheson (September 28, 1681 - April 17, 1764) 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. Handel was saved only by a large button which turned aside Mattheson's sword. The two were afterwards reconciled. - Dieterich Buxtehude
Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637-9 May 1707) 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. He wrote in a wide variety of vocal and instrumental idioms, and his style strongly influenced many composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach. - John Blow
John Blow (1649 - October 1, 1708) was an English composer and organist. His pupils included William Croft and Henry Purcell. Blow was probably born at North Collingham in Nottinghamshire. He became a chorister of the Chapel Royal, and distinguished himself by his proficiency in music. He composed several anthems at an unusually early age, including "Lord, Thou host been our refuge", "Lord, rebuke me not" and the so-called "club anthem", … - Leonardo Leo
Leonardo Leo (August 5, 1694 - October 31, 1744), more correctly Lionardo Oronzo Salvatore de Leo was an Italian Baroque composer. - Francesco Geminiani
Francesco Geminiani (December 5, 1687 - September 17, 1762) was an Italian violinist, composer, and music theorist. - 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. He and his nephew, François "le Grand," were the most renowned members of the Couperin family. - Nicola Porpora
Nicola (Antonio) Porpora (August 17, 1686 - March 3, 1768) was an Italian composer of Baroque operas (see opera seria) and teacher of singing, whose most famous singing student was the castrato Farinelli. - Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons (baptised December 25 1583 - June 5 1625) 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. Gibbons was born in Oxford. Between 1596 and 1598 he sang in the choir of King's College, Cambridge, where his brother was master of the choristers; he entered the university in 1598 and achieved the degree of Bachelor of Music in 1606. - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (January 4, 1710 - March 16, 1736) was an Italian composer, violinist and organist - Michael Praetorius
Michael Praetorius (probably February 15, 1571 - February 15, 1621) 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. - William Boyce
William Boyce (September 11, 1711 - February 7, 1779) is widely regarded as one of the most important English-born composers of the 18th century. Born in London, Boyce was a choirboy at St Paul's Cathedral before studying music with Maurice Greene after his voice broke. His first professional appointment came in 1734 when he got a job as an organist at the Oxford Chapel. - Johann Christoph Bach
Johann Christoph Bach (December 6, 1642 - March 31, 1703), 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. Bach's first wife. Johann Christoph had a reputation as a composer that was only equalled by that of Johann Sebastian within the Bach family during his lifetime. - Giuseppe Tartini
Giuseppe Tartini (April 8, 1692 - February 26, 1770) was an Italian composer and violinist. - Giovanni Legrenzi
Giovanni Legrenzi (baptized August 12, 1626 - May 27, 1690) was an Italian composer of opera, vocal and instrumental music, and organist, of the Baroque era. He was one of the most prominent composers in Venice in the late 17th century, and extremely influential on the development of late Baroque idioms across northern Italy.
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