Giovani Gabrieli Late 16 Venician composer who wrote

for multiple choirs

John Downland Late 16 - early 17 British composer. Part of

Monodic revolution

Caccini Late 16 - Early 17 One of the first Opera

composers

Peri Late 15 - Early 17 One of the first Opera

Composers

Claudio Monteverdi Later 15 - Early 17 Opera (first to really

popularize it)

Cavalli Mid 17 Italian Opera

Cesti Mid 17 Italian Opere

Barbara Strozzi Mid 17 Italian Cantata

Jean Baptiste Lully Mid 17 French Baroque.

Elisabeth - Claude Jacquet Mid 17 Baroque Keyboard suites

de la Guerre

Henry Purcell Late 17 English Baroque Opera

Pedro Calderon Mid 17 Spanish Opera

Juan Hidalgo Mid 17 Spanish Opera

Heinrich Schutz First half 17 Oratorio (sacred opera)

Arcangelo Corelli Late 17 Italian Trio Sonata

Antonio Vivaldi Early 18 Italian Concerto

Jean-Philippe Rameau First half 18 French Opera

Francois Couperin Early 18 French Baroque

Dieterich Buxtehude Second half 17 German organ counterpoint

Johan Sebastian Bach Early 18 German Baroque

Georg Philipp Telemann Early 18 Baroque

George Handel Mid 18 Opera, Oratorio

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Early 18 Opera Buffa

Alessandro Scarlatti Late 17 - Early 18 Opera, Cantatas

Johann Adolf Hasse Mid 18 Opera Seria

John Gay Mid 18 Ballad (English comedic)

Opera