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1643, Dec1657-17221722, Nov 24
a Dutch/German organist and composer. He was one of the most important German composers of the 17th century, a friend of Dieterich Buxtehude and a major influence on Johann Sebastian Bach; however, very few of his works survive to this day.
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Jan Adams Reincken1643, Dec1657
 
17221722, Nov 24
William Byrd1540 ca1560
 
1661623, Jul 4
 an English composer of the Renaissance. He wrote in many of the forms current in England at the t...
Francois Martin [1]unknown1650
 
1669unknown
 A French composer. Not much is known about his life. He served as ordinaire to Gaston, Duke of Or...
Adam Vaclav Michna z Otradovic1600, Jun 301633
 
16731676, Oct 16
 a Czech Catholic aristocrat, poet, composer, hymn writer, organist and choir leader of the early ...
Giacomo Carissimi1605, Apr1623
 
16741674, Jan 12
 an Italian composer. He is one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque or, more accur...
Gaspar Sanz16401660
 
 
16971710
 an Aragonese composer, guitarist, organist and priest born to a wealthy family in Calanda in the ...
John Blow1649, Feb1668
 
 
17001708, Oct 1
 an English Baroque composer and organist, appointed to Westminster Abbey in 1669. In 1685 he was...
Sybrand van Noordt the Younger1659/601700
 
 
17091705
 organist of the old church at Amsterdam about the year 1700 was one of the best performers of his...
Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault1695, Aug 261709
 
17221791
 a French singer and composer. She made her debut at the Paris Opera in 1709 in Jean-Baptiste Lull...
Nicolas Gilles Forqueray1703, Feb 151719
 
17221761, Oct 22
 Born and died in Chaumes-en-Brie. He was organist of the Chapel of Louis XV and several Parisian ...
William Babell1689/901711
 
17231723, Sep 23
 an English musician, composer, and prolific arranger of vocal music for harpsichord. He wrote num...
Georg Bohm1661, Sep 21680
 
17271733, May 18
 a German Baroque organist and composer. He is notable for his development of the chorale partita ...
Jean-Francois Dandrieu1682 ca1687
 
17391739, Feb 7
 a French Baroque composer, harpsichordist and organist. Dandrieu's harpsichord writing is reminis...
Richard Jonesunknown1720
 
17441744, Jan 20
 an English composer and violinist. His pantomime stage works and ballad operas are all lost excep...
Paolo Benedetto Bellinzani16821700
 
17491757, Feb 26
 an Italian composer of first half of the eighteenth century. Among his works are holy masses, off...
Michielina della Pietaunknown1700
 
1749unknown
 an Italian composer, violinist, organist, and teacher of music. A foundling admitted in infancy t...
George Frideric Handel16851696
 
17501759
 a German-born British Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well ...
Johann Sebastian Bach1685, Mar 311703
 
17501750, Jul 28
 a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He enriched established German styles throu...
Giovanni Giorgiunknown1719
 
17621762
 a priest and an Italian composer. His style of polychoral church compositions are influenced by e...
Johann Joachim Quantz1697, Jan 301716
 
17691773, Jul 12
 a German flutist, flute maker and composer. He composed hundreds of flute sonatas and concertos, ...
Constantin Christian Dedekind1628, Apr 21652
 
1781715
 a German poet, dramatist, librettist, composer and bass singer of the Baroque era. His 1657 songb...
Carlo Zuccari1704, Nov 101720
 
17921792, May 3
 an Italian composer and violinist of the late Baroque and early classical; he worked mainly in Mi...
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