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Period: 1551 to
Guilio Caccini
One of the founders of Opera. Italian composer, singer, teacher, and instrumentalist. -
Period: 1557 to
Giovanni Gabrieli
Italian composer and organist. Used instruments in sacred music. -
Period: 1561 to
Jacopo Peri
One of the founders of Opera. Also claimed to be the first Opera with his Dafne. -
Period: 1563 to
John Dowland
English Lutenist. Was a Catholic. He was a leading composer of lute music. In 2006, Sting recorded his songs and created a revival of his music. -
Period: 1564 to
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poem. Extremely influential, even today. -
Period: 1567 to
Claudio Montiverdi
One of the most important composers of the Baroque period. One of the inventors of the new seconda practica -
Period: 1570 to
Florentine Camerata
Part of a group of intellects that met in order to discuss the arts. -
Period: to
Orlando Gibbons
English composer of Anglican Church. -
Period: to
Girolamo Frescobaldi
First modern keyboard virtuoso and compser. Was the first European composer to focus on instrumental music. -
Period: to
Heinrich Schutz
Most important German composer of middle Baroque. Composed the first German opera. -
Shakespeare's Hamlet
Shakespeare's Central Character in Hamlet expresses the ideals of the Renaissance. -
Period: to
Giacomo Carissimi
Leading composer of Roman Cantatas and oratorios. -
Montiverdi's Presents Orfeo
The first opera to win lasting place in international repertoire. -
Period: to
Barbara Strozzi
Virtuoso singer and composer of cantatas. -
Period: to
Giovanni legrenzi
Italian composer and organist. Used many short arias in his operas. -
Period: to
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Establisher of French Opera and ballet. Italian by birth. -
Period: to
Guiseppe Torelli
Contributed the most to the development of the concerto. -
Period: to
Alessandro Scarletti
Italian Composer. His death ended Baroque opera. -
Great Plague
The Great Plague in London kills 7000 in a week, with over 100,000 by the end of the year. -
Period: to
Francis Couperin
French composer and keyboardist -
Period: to
Antonio Vivaldi
Laid the foundations of late instrumental music. Pioneer of orchestral music. -
Period: to
Georg Phillip Telemann
Prolific German composer. Contributed significantly to concert life in Germany. -
Great Law
William Penn approves the Great Law, which provides religious freedom in Pennsylvania. -
Period: to
Jean-Philippe Rameau
French composer and theorist -
Period: to
Johann Sebastian Bach
Baroque master. Master of counterpoint. Wrote no operas. -
Period: to
Georg Friedrich Handel
German musician. inventor of the English oratorio. -
Period: to
Salem Witch Trials