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MusiciansCCHS Academic Team
Baroque Period – 1600’s into 1700’s
• Highly complex, ornate music
• Often very fast, rapid changes
of key and meter.
• Claudio Monteverdi
• Johnan Pachelbel
• Antonio Vivaldi
• George Frideric Handel
• J.S. Bach
• Henry Purcell
Antonio Vivaldi1678-1741
• Italian Baroque composer & violinist• Ordained as a priest• “The Red Priest”• The Four Seasons (Violin Concertos)
Johann Sebastian Bach1685-1750
• Baroque composer & organist• His children were also musicians• Goldberg Variations• Brandenberg Concertos• Mass in B Minor• The Well-Tempered Clavier• The Art of Fugue• St. Matthew Passion
George Frideric Handel1685-1759
• Baroque composer• Born in Germany; moved to
England• King of England: George I/George
II• Music for the Royal Fireworks• Water Music• Messiah (Hallelujah Chorus) –
Oratorio (large musical composition for orchestra, choir, soloists)
• Zadok the Priest (played at coronations)
Classical Period (1750-1830)
• Lighter, clearer texture than
Baroque.
• Less complex than Baroque
• Standardization of orchestra
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Joseph Haydn
• Ludwig von Beethoven (sorta)
• Nicolo Paganini
Joseph Haydn1732-1809
• Classical Austrian composer
• “Father of the Symphony”
• Friend of Mozart, teacher of Beethoven
• Lived in Vienna, traveled to London
• Oratorios: The Seasons, Creation
• Over 100 Symphonies!!!
• Surprise Symphony (No. 94)
• London Symphony
• Clock Symphony
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart1756-1791• German/Austrian Classical composer
• Child prodigy… traveled and performed
• Most famously lived in Vienna
• Friend of Haydn
• “A Little Night Music” (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik)
• Opera: The Magic Flute
• Opera: Don Giovanni
• Opera: Marriage of Figaro
• Jupiter Symphony (No. 41)
• Requiem: Unfinished
Ludwig von Beethoven1770-1827
• German composer and pianist• Classical/Romantic transition era• Moved to Vienna in 1792. Studied
with Haydn• Hearing loss – almost deaf by end of
life• Third Symphony – Eroica (Napoleon)• Only opera: Fidelio• Famed Ninth Symphony• Kreutzer Sonata• Moonlight Sonata