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Johann Sebastian Bach

(March 21, 1685 – July 28, 1750) was a prolific and versatile Germancomposer
and organist of the Baroque era, whose sacred and secular works
for choir, orchestra and keyboard drew together almost all of the strands of
the Baroque style and brought this musical form to its ultimate maturity. Bach
composed for every musical category of his time except for the genre ofopera,
and expanded musical composition in format, quality, and technical exactness
through elevated harmonizations, fugues, and intricate melodies. Ultimately,
Bach's sole aim was to glorifyGod, as the designation "Soli Deo Gloria" (“To God
Alone the Glory”) was signed on many of his compositions.
For Baroque era composers, music was not primarily an exercise in
compositional technique but rather had deep spiritual and religious
underpinnings. Bach expressed as much, writing, "The purpose and end aim of
figured-bass is nothing more than to praise and glorify God. Where this is not the
case there can only be infernal scraping and bawling." Bach was influenced
greatly by Martin Luther's assertion that music was, "a gift from God, not a
human gift." Luther's concept of music being a form of praise to the Almighty, "a
sermon in sound," could be Bach's personal credo with regard to his art.

Although he introduced no new musical forms, he expanded and enriched the

prevailing German style with a robust and dazzling contrapuntal technique, a
seemingly effortless control of harmonic and motivic organization from the
smallest to the largest scales, and the adaptation of rhythms and textures from
abroad, particularly from Italy and France. His forceful suavity and vast output
have earned him wide acknowledgment as one of the greatest composers in the
Western tonal tradition. Revered for their intellectual depth, technical command
and artistic beauty, his works include theBrandenburg concertos, the keyboard
suites and partitas, the Mass in B Minor, the St. Matthew Passion, The Musical
Offering, The Art of Fugue and about 240 church cantatas.
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi 
(Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo ˈluːtʃo viˈvaldi]; 4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was
an Italian[2] Baroque composer, virtuosoviolinist, teacher and cleric. Born
in Venice, he is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his
influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe. He composed many
instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other instruments, as well
as sacred choral works and more than forty operas. His best-known work is a
series of violin concertos known as The Four Seasons.
Many of his compositions were written for the female music ensemble of
the Ospedale della Pietà, a home for abandoned children where Vivaldi (who had
been ordained as a Catholic priest) was employed from 1703 to 1715 and from
1723 to 1740. Vivaldi also had some success with expensive stagings of his
operas in Venice, Mantua and Vienna. After meeting the Emperor Charles VI,
Vivaldi moved to Vienna, hoping for preferment. However, the Emperor died
soon after Vivaldi's arrival, and Vivaldi himself died less than a year later in
poverty.

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel
 (/ˈhændəl/;[1] born Georg Friedrich Händel,[2] German pronunciation: [ˈhɛndəl];
23 February 1685 (O.S.) [(N.S.) 5 March] – 14 April 1759) [3] was a German, later
British baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming
well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos. Handel
received critical training in Halle, Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in
1712; he became a naturalised British subject in 1727. [4] He was strongly
influenced both by the great composers of the Italian Baroque and the middle-
German polyphonic choral tradition.
Within fifteen years, Handel had started three commercial opera companies to
supply the English nobility with Italian opera. Musicologist Winton Dean writes
that his operas show that "Handel was not only a great composer; he was a
dramatic genius of the first order." [5] As Alexander's Feast (1736) was well
received, Handel made a transition to English choral works. After his success
with Messiah (1742) he never performed an Italian opera again. Almost blind,
and having lived in England for nearly fifty years, he died in 1759, a respected
and rich man. His funeral was given full state honours, and he was buried
in Westminster Abbey in London.
Born the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti, Handel
is regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Baroque era, with works
such as Water Music, Music for the Royal Fireworks and Messiah remaining
steadfastly popular.[6] One of his four Coronation Anthems, Zadok the
Priest (1727), composed for the coronation of George II, has been performed at
every subsequent British coronation, traditionally during the sovereign's
anointing. Handel composed more than forty operas in over thirty years, and
since the late 1960s, with the revival of baroque music and historically informed
musical performance, interest in Handel'soperas has grown.