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Composers • Writers • Performers born active died
1628, Apr 2 1652-1690s 1715
a German poet, dramatist, librettist, composer and bass singer of the Baroque era. His 1657 songbook Aelbianische Musen-Lust was a large collection of musical settings of German strophic poetry, for solo voice. In 1680 the outbreak of plague caused Dedekind to flee Dresden for Meissen. In his last years he composed much less; his late work was almost entirely sacred poetry.
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Constantin Christian Dedekind 1628, Apr 2 1652
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William Byrd 1540 ca 1560 166 1623, Jul 4 an English composer of the Renaissance. He wrote in many of the forms current in England at the t... Francois Martin [1] unknown 1650 1669 unknown A French composer. Not much is known about his life. He served as ordinaire to Gaston, Duke of Or... Adam Vaclav Michna z Otradovic 1600, Jun 30 1633 1673 1676, Oct 16 a Czech Catholic aristocrat, poet, composer, hymn writer, organist and choir leader of the early ... Giacomo Carissimi 1605, Apr 1623 1674 1674, Jan 12 an Italian composer. He is one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque or, more accur... Gaspar Sanz 1640 1660 1697 1710 an Aragonese composer, guitarist, organist and priest born to a wealthy family in Calanda in the ... John Blow 1649, Feb 1668 1700 1708, Oct 1 an English Baroque composer and organist, appointed to Westminster Abbey in 1669. In 1685 he was... Sybrand van Noordt the Younger 1659/60 1700 1709 1705 organist of the old church at Amsterdam about the year 1700 was one of the best performers of his... Jan Adams Reincken 1643, Dec 1657 1722 1722, Nov 24 a Dutch/German organist and composer. He was one of the most important German composers of the 17... Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault 1695, Aug 26 1709 1722 1791 a French singer and composer. She made her debut at the Paris Opera in 1709 in Jean-Baptiste Lull... Nicolas Gilles Forqueray 1703, Feb 15 1719 1722 1761, Oct 22 Born and died in Chaumes-en-Brie. He was organist of the Chapel of Louis XV and several Parisian ... William Babell 1689/90 1711 1723 1723, Sep 23 an English musician, composer, and prolific arranger of vocal music for harpsichord. He wrote num... Georg Bohm 1661, Sep 2 1680 1727 1733, May 18 a German Baroque organist and composer. He is notable for his development of the chorale partita ... Jean-Francois Dandrieu 1682 ca 1687 1739 1739, Feb 7 a French Baroque composer, harpsichordist and organist. Dandrieu's harpsichord writing is reminis... Richard Jones unknown 1720 1744 1744, Jan 20 an English composer and violinist. His pantomime stage works and ballad operas are all lost excep... Paolo Benedetto Bellinzani 1682 1700 1749 1757, Feb 26 an Italian composer of first half of the eighteenth century. Among his works are holy masses, off... Michielina della Pieta unknown 1700 1749 unknown an Italian composer, violinist, organist, and teacher of music. A foundling admitted in infancy t... George Frideric Handel 1685 1696 1750 1759 a German-born British Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well ... Johann Sebastian Bach 1685, Mar 31 1703 1750 1750, Jul 28 a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He enriched established German styles throu... Santa della Pieta unknown 1725 1750 1774 ca an Italian singer, composer, and violinist. She is known to have been a contralto soloist, violin... Francesco Durante 1684 1725 1755 1755 a Neapolitan composer. A complete collection of Durante's works, consisting almost exclusively of... Charles Dolle unknown 1735 1755 1755 ca a French viol player and composer. Very little is known about his life. He was active in Paris an... Mlle Guerin 1739 ca 1755 1755 unknown a French composer. She composed an opera at age 16, titled Daphnis et Amalthée which was perform... Mme Papavoine 1735 ca 1755 1755 1761 a French composer. She married violinist Louis-August Papavoine some time before 1755. Nothing el... Richard Mudge 1718 1741 1757 1763, Apr an English clergyman and composer of the late baroque period. Mudge became curate of the villages... Manuel Jose de Quiros unknown 1730 1760 1765 an 18th-century Guatemalan composer. Quirós is the first musician in the New World to receive a ... Giovanni Giorgi unknown 1719 1762 1762 a priest and an Italian composer. His style of polychoral church compositions are influenced by e... Francesco Araja 1709, Jun 25 1729 1765 1768 ca an Italian composer who spent 25 years in Russia and wrote at least 14 operas for the Russian Imp... Elisabeth de Haulteterre 1720 ca 1737 1768 1768 a French composer and violinist. Despite the similarity of the name, she did not come from La Cou... Johann Joachim Quantz 1697, Jan 30 1716 1769 1773, Jul 12 a German flutist, flute maker and composer. He composed hundreds of flute sonatas and concertos, ... Jan Zach 1699, Nov 1724 1772 1773, May 24 a Czech composer, violinist and organist. Although he was a gifted and versatile composer capable... Johann Peter Kellner 1705, Sep 28 1725 1772 1772, Apr 19 a German organist and composer. He was the father of Johann Christoph Kellner. He was appointed c... Giovanni Cifolelli 1750s ca 1764 1775 unknown an Italian mandolin virtuoso and dramatic composer whose date and place of birth are unknown. In ... Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712, Jun 28 1739 1776 1778, Jul 2 a philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the ... Francesco Uttini 1723 1743 1776 1795, Oct 25 an Italian composer and conductor who was active mostly in Sweden. an Italian composer and conduc... Antonin Kammel 1730, Apr 21 1750 1779 1784/5, Oct 5 a composer and violinist. Kammel was born at Belec, now in the Czech Republic. He was part of the... Marie Emmanuelle Bayon Louis 1746 1760 1779 1825, Mar 29 a French composer, pianist, and salonnière. Very little is known for certain about her life. The... Vincenta Da Ponte unknown 1770 1780s 9 unknown an Italian composer, singer and instrumentalist. As a composer, Da Ponte is known only from an un... Vincenta Da Ponte unknown 1770 1780s 9 unknown an Italian composer, singer and instrumentalist. She was a member of the coro, or music school, o... James Nares 1715, Apr 19 1734 1781 1783, Feb 10 an English composer of mostly sacred vocal works, though he also composed for the harpsichord and... Johann Philipp Kirnberger 1721, Apr 24 1741 1783 1783, Jul 27 a musician, composer (primarily of fugues), and music theorist. Kirnberger played a significant r... Michel Yost 1754 1770 1786 1786, Jul 5 a famous French clarinetist and cofounder of the French clarinet school. He was a brilliant instr... Christian Gottlob Neefe 1748 1760 1789 1798 a German opera composer and conductor. He studied law at Leipzig University, but subsequently ret... Maddalena Laura Sirmen 1745, Dec 9 1766 1789 1818, May 18 an Italian composer, violinist, and later unsuccessful singer. In 1771, she debuted her "Concerto... Francis Hopkinson 1737, Sep 21 1761 1791 1791, May 9 designed the first official American flag. He was an author, a composer, and one of the signers o... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756, Jan 27 1761 1791 1791, Dec 5 a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era, born in Salzburg. Mozart showed prodigi... Carl Michael Bellman 1740, Feb 4 1768 1791 1795, Feb 11 a Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, poet and entertainer. He is a central figure in the Swe... Carlo Zuccari 1704, Nov 10 1720 1792 1792, May 3 an Italian composer and violinist of the late Baroque and early classical; he worked mainly in Mi... Claude Balbastre 1724, Dec 8 1750 1792 1799, May 9 a French composer, organist, harpsichordist and fortepianist. He was one of the most famous music... Benjamin Cooke 1734, Nov 28 1743 1793 1793, Sep 14 an English composer, organist and teacher. He was the organist at Westminster Abbey, master of th... William Billings 1746, Oct 7 1770 1794 1800, Sep 26 regarded as the first American choral composer. He possibly received musical instruction from Jo... Polly Young 1749 1755 1795 1799 an English soprano, composer and keyboard player. Following her marriage, Young mostly appeared i... Justin Morgan 1747, Feb 28 1771 1798 1798, Mar 22 a U.S. horse breeder and composer. Morgan was a composer, best known for his hymns and fuguing tu... Joseph Haydn 1732, Mar 31 1739 1803 1809, May 31 a prominent and prolific Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the de... Andre Ernest Modeste Gretry 1741 1759 1803 1813 a composer from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (present-day Belgium), who worked from 1767 onward... Johann Christoph Kellner 1736, Aug 15 1762 1803 1803 a German organist and composer, the son of Johann Peter Kellner. He wrote a treatise on music the... Joseph Abaco 1710, Mar 27 1729 1805 1805, Aug 31 an Italian violoncellist and composer. He wrote nearly 40 cello sonatas, the Capricci for Violonc... Madame Ravissa unknown 1778 1807 1807 an Italian singer and composer. She was from Turin, but apparently lived in Paris from 1778 until... Joseph Quesnel 1746, Nov 15 1766 1809 1809, Jul 2/3 a French Canadian composer, poet, and playwright. Among his works were two operas, Colas et Co... John Antes 1740, Mar 24 1769 1809 1811, Dec 17 the first American Moravian Missionary to travel and work in Egypt, one of the earliest American-... Jean-Baptiste Davaux 1742, Jul 19 1760 1816 1822, Feb 2 a French violinist and composer. He started playing the violin and the mandolin. In 1767 Davaux w... William Herschel 1738, Nov 15 1774 1820 1822, Aug 25 a German-born British astronomer, composer, and brother of Caroline Herschel. His interest in ast... Ludwig van Beethoven 1770, Dec 1778 1826 1827, Mar 26 a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Roman...
