Baroque music. Baroque music forms a major portion of the "classical music" canon, being widely studied, performed, and listened to.
Composers of the Baroque era include Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Alessandro Scarlatti, Domenico Scarlatti, Antonio Vivaldi, Henry Purcell, Georg Philipp Telemann, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Arcangelo Corelli, Tomaso Albinoni, François Couperin, Denis Gaultier, Claudio Monteverdi, Heinrich Schütz, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Jan Dismas Zelenka, and Johann Pachelbel. The Baroque period saw the creation of tonality.
Monteverdi -〈L'Orfeo〉favola in musica, SV 318 "Vanne Orfeo felice a pieno" (John Eliot Gardiner) Overture - "Dido and Aeneas" by Henry Purcell. Handel, G.F. (1685-1759) - Rinaldo - Lascia ch'io pianga - Magdalena Kožená, Marcon. The Baroque Era. As of July 1, 2013 ThinkQuest has been discontinued.
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While Handel was staying in Rome another great baroque composer Alessandro Scarlatti presented him to cardinal Vincenzo Grimani. In spite of being a religious figure of importance and a distinguished diplomat Grimani wrote libretti in his spare time, and acted as an unofficial theatrical agent for the Italian royal courts.