Baroque
1400-1749
2,191 items in this era
Premieres accelerate, court and church production expands, and early venue infrastructure starts to stabilize musical circulation.
- Premiere events become a dominant historical signal.
- Birth/death and work-premiere relations tighten into recognizable lineages.
- Opera and sacred performance institutions become persistent anchors.
Composers
200 composers from the Baroque era, ranked by historical significance.
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685–1750
George Frideric Handel
1685–1759
Antonio Vivaldi
1678–1741
Joseph Haydn
1732–1809
Giacomo Puccini
1712–1781
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
1714–1788
Henry Purcell
1659–1695
Christoph Willibald von Gluck
1714–1787
Alessandro Scarlatti
1660–1725
Arcangelo Corelli
1653–1713
Domenico Scarlatti
1685–1757
Jean-Philippe Rameau
1683–1764
Barbara Strozzi
1619–1677
Leopold Mozart
1719–1787
André Campra
1660–1744
Johann Christian Bach
1735–1782
Alessandro Poglietti
Unknown–1683
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
1710–1784
Abraham Megerle
1607–1680
Adam Falckenhagen
1697–1754
Alexandro Marie Antoin Fridzeri
1741–1825
Anton Schweitzer
1735–1787
Antonio Bertali
1605–1669
Antonio Maria Bononcini
1677–1726
Antonio Rosetti
1746–1792
Antonio Sacchini
1730–1786
Antonio Tozzi
1736–1812
Baldassare Galuppi
1706–1785
Esprit Antoine Blanchard
1696–1770
Giacomo Antonio Perti
1661–1756
Henri-Joseph Rigel
1741–1799
Ignazio Albertini
1644–1685
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger
1736–1809
Johann Hartmann
1726–1793
Johann Mattheson
1681–1764
Johann Philipp Förtsch
1652–1732
John Hebden
1705–1765
Juan García de Salazar
1639–1710
Luise Gottsched
1713–1762
Maddalena Laura Sirmen
1735–1818
Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault
1695–1791
Nicola Matteis
1650–1713
Paul I, Prince Esterházy
1635–1713
Pierre Dandrieu
1664–1733
Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny
1729–1817
Richard Leveridge
1670–1758
Samuel Capricornus
1628–1665
Turlough O'Carolan
1670–1738
Notable Events
Premiere of Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo (Emilio de' Cavalieri)
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of The Merry Devil of Edmonton
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of Euridice (Jacopo Peri)
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Approximate start of the Baroque period in Western art music
Curated period boundary commonly placed around 1600.
Premiere of Poetaster
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of Satiromastix
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of Cenodoxus
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of Euridice (Giulio Caccini)
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of Bussy D'Ambois
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of Peribáñez y el Comendador de Ocaña
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of King Lear
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of The Wonder of Women
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of L'Orfeo (Claudio Monteverdi)
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of L'Orfeo (Claudio Monteverdi)
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of The Faithful Shepherdess
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of L'Arianna (Claudio Monteverdi)
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of Dafne (Marco da Gagliano)
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of Il ballo delle ingrate (Claudio Monteverdi)
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of The White Devil
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of The Duchess of Malfi
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of Don Gil of the Green Breeches
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of Orfeo dolente (Domenico Belli)
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of Christmas, His Masque
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of The Courageous Turk
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Teatro dei Fiorentini opens
Derived from official opening (P1619) or inception fallback (P571).
Premiere of The False One
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of The Changeling
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of A Wife for a Month
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (Claudio Monteverdi)
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
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