Baroque music

• Baroque music is a period or style of Western art

music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750.
This era followed the Renaissance music era, and was
followed in turn by the Classical era. Baroque music
forms a major portion of the "classical music" canon,
and is now widely studied, performed, and listened to.
• This era followed the Renaissance music era, and was
followed in turn by the Classical era.
• Baroque music forms a major portion of the "classical
music" canon, and is now widely studied, performed, and
listened to.
• Key composers of the Baroque era include Johann Sebastian
Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, George Frideric Handel, and Johann
Pachelbel.
Johann Sebastian Bach
• a German composer and musician
of the Baroque period. He is known
for instrumental compositions such
as the Art of Fugue,
the Brandenburg Concertos, and
the Goldberg Variations, and for
vocal music such as the St Matthew
Passion and the Mass in B minor.
• Since the 19th-century Bach
Revival he has been generally
regarded as one of the greatest
composers of the Western art
musical canon.
 Antonio Lucas Vivaldi
• an Italian Baroque musical
composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher,
and priest. Born in Venice, the capital of
the Venetian Republic, he is regarded 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.
 Johann Pachelbel
• a German composer, organist, and
teacher who brought the south German
organ schools to their peak. He composed
a large body of sacred and secular music,
and his contributions to the development
of the chorale prelude and fugue have
earned him a place among the most
important composers of the
middle Baroque era.
• Pachelbel's music enjoyed enormous
popularity during his lifetime; he had
many pupils and his music became a
model for the composers of south and
central Germany. Today, Pachelbel is best
known for the Canon in D, as well as
the Chaconne in F minor, the Toccata in E
minor for organ, and the Hexachordum
Apollinis, a set of keyboard variations.
Johann Pachelbel
George Frideric Handel
• 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 important training
in Halle and worked as a composer
in Hamburg and Italy before settling
in London in 1712; he became a
naturalised British subject in 1727.
• He was strongly influenced both by
the great composers of the Italian
Baroque and by the middle-
German polyphonic choral tradition.
George Frideric Handel
 Franz Schubert
• Austrian composer who bridged
the worlds of Classical
and Romantic music, noted for
the melody and harmony in his
songs (lieder) and chamber
music.
• Among other works
are Symphony No. 9 in C
Major (The Great;
1828), Symphony in B
Minor (Unfinished;
1822), masses, and piano works.
Franz Schubert
Classical Music
• The Classical period was an era of classical music between roughly
1730 and 1820.
• The Classical period falls between the Baroque and
the Romantic periods. Classical music has a lighter, clearer texture
than Baroque music and is less complex. It is mainly homophonic,
using a clear melody line over a subordinate
chordal accompaniment, but counterpoint was by no means
forgotten, especially later in the period.
• It also makes use of style galant which emphasized light elegance in
place of the Baroque's dignified seriousness and impressive grandeur.
Variety and contrast within a piece became more pronounced than
before and the orchestra increased in size, range, and power.
Joseph Haydn

• an Austrian composer of
the Classical period. He was
instrumental in the development
of chamber music such as
the piano trio.
• His contributions to musical
form have earned him the
epithets "Father of
the Symphony" and "Father of
the String Quartet".
• Haydn spent much of his career as
a court musician for the
wealthy Esterházy family at their
remote estate. Until the later part
of his life, this isolated him from
other composers and trends in
music so that he was, as he put it,
"forced to become original". Yet his
music circulated widely, and for
much of his career he was the most
celebrated composer in Europe.
• He was a friend and mentor
of Mozart, a tutor of Beethoven,
and the older brother of
composer Michael Haydn.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• baptised as Johannes
Chrysostomus Wolfgangus
Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific
and influential composer of
the classical era.
• Born in Salburg,Mozart showed
prodigious ability from his earliest
childhood. Already competent
on keyboard and violin, he
composed from the age of five and
performed before European
royalty. At 17, Mozart was engaged
as a musician at the Salzburg court
but grew restless and travelled in
search of a better position.
• While visiting Vienna in 1781, he
was dismissed from his Salzburg
position. He chose to stay in the
capital, where he achieved fame
but little financial security.
During his final years in Vienna,
he composed many of his best-
known symphonies, concertos,
and operas, and portions of
the Requiem, which was largely
unfinished at the time of his
early death at the age of 35. The
circumstances of his death have
been much mythologized.
• He composed more than 600 works,
many of which are acknowledged as
pinnacles
of symphonic, concertante, chamber,
operatic, and choral music.
• He is among the most enduringly
popular of classical composers, and
his influence is profound on
subsequent Western art music.
• Ludwig van Beethoven composed his
early works in the shadow of Mozart,
and Joseph Haydn wrote: "posterity
will not see such a talent again in 100
years"
Ludwig van Beethoven
• was a German composer
and pianist. A crucial figure in
the transition between
the classical and romantic eras
in classical music.
• He remains one of the most
recognized and influential
musicians of this period, and is
considered to be one of the
greatest composers of all time.
• His hearing condition worsened
to almost complete deafness by
1811, and he then gave up
performing and appearing in
public.
Franz Schubert

• was an Austrian composer of the

late Classical and
early Romantic eras. Despite his
short lifetime, Schubert left
behind a vast oeuvre, including
more than 600 secular vocal
works (mainly Lieder), seven
complete symphonies, sacred
music, operas, incidental
music and a large body of piano
and chamber music.
• he became acquainted with the
orchestral music
of Haydn, Mozart,
and Beethoven.
• He died eight months later at
the age of 31, the cause officially
attributed to typhoid fever, but
believed by some historians to
be syphilis.