Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach

male, deceased (1750)
Johann Sebastian Bach was a prolific German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew...
George Frideric Handel

George Frideric Handel

male, deceased (1759)
George Frideric Handel was a German-born British Baroque composer who was a leading composer of concerti grossi, operas and oratorios. Born in...
Domenico Scarlatti

Domenico Scarlatti

male, deceased (1757)
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...
Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell

male, deceased (1695)
Henry Purcell (September 10 (?),, 1659–November 21, 1695), a Baroque composer, is generally considered to be one of England's greatest composers. He...
William Byrd

William Byrd

male, deceased (1623)
William Byrd (c. 1540 - 4 July 1623) was an English composer of the Renaissance. He lived until well into the seventeenth century without writing...
John Eliot Gardiner

John Eliot Gardiner

male, 66 years old
Sir John Eliot Gardiner CBE (born April 20, 1943, Fontmell Magna, Dorset, England) is an English conductor. He founded the Monteverdi Choir (1966),...
Ton Koopman

Ton Koopman

male, 65 years old
Ton Koopman (born October 12, 1944 in Zwolle, Netherlands) is a conductor, organist and harpsichordist. Koopman had a "classical education" and...
Jordi Savall

Jordi Savall

male, 68 years old
Jordi Savall i Bernadet (born 1941, in Igualada, Spain) is a Spanish viol player, conductor, and composer. He has been one of the major figures in...
Jean-Philippe Rameau

Jean-Philippe Rameau

male, deceased (1764)
Jean-Philippe Rameau (September 25, 1683 - September 12, 1764) was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque...
Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens

male, deceased (1640)
Peter Paul Rubens was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish and European painter, and a proponent of an exuberant Baroque style that emphasized...