Notable Baroque Composers

Can you name these notable composers from the Baroque Era?

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Nationality	Birth	Death	Hint/Notable Work	Answer
Italian	1554	1612	Part of the Venetian school, an important transitional figure from the Renaissance to the Baroque.	Giovanni Gabrieli
Italian	1567	1643	Considered one of the first opera composers. Transitional late Renaissance and early Baroque composer.	Claudio Monteverdi
Italian	1583	1643	Virtuoso keyboard player, one of the most important composer of early keyboard works.	Girolamo Frescobaldi
French	1632	1687	Court composer for King Louis XIV. Best known for writing operas.	Jean-Baptiste Lully
Danish	1637	1707	Best known as an organ virtuoso and composer of organ music. Had a large influence on composers such as J.S. Bach and Handel.	Dieterich Buxtehude
Bohemian/Austrian	1644	1704	Rosary Sonatas	Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
German	1653	1706	Canon in D	Johann Pachelbel
Italian	1653	1713	Important composer in the development of common practice harmony. One of the first composers to write exclusively in major or minor keys.	Arcangelo Corelli
Italian	1658	1709	Important composer in the early development of the concerto grosso and solo concerto form.	Giuseppe Torelli
English	1659	1695	Dido and Aeneas	Henry Purcell
French	1668	1733	Known for writing music for the harpsichord, sometimes referred to as “________ le Grand” to distinguish him from other famous composers from the same family.	François Couperin
Italian	1671	1751	Most famous today for a piece he DIDN'T write. The Adagio in G minor, which is often attributed to him, was written by a 20th century musicologist who fraudulently claimed it as a discovery.	Tomaso Albinoni
Italian	1678	1741	The Four Seasons	Antonio Vivaldi
German	1681	1767	Considered by many to be the most prolific composer in history with more than 3000 works attributed to him.	Georg Philipp Telemann
French	1683	1764	His Treatise on Harmony is considered an important early codification of tonal harmony.	Jean-Philippe Rameau
German	1685	1750	Brandenburg Concertos	Johann Sebastian Bach
Italian	1685	1757	Composer of 555 keyboard sonatas.	Dominico Scarlatti
German/British	1685	1759	The Messiah	George Frideric Handel
Italian	1692	1770	Devil's Trill Sonata	Giuseppe Tartini

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