Musicians
CCHS Academic Team
Baroque Period – 1600’s into 1700’s
• Highly complex, ornate music
• Often very fast, rapid changes
of key and meter.
• Claudio Monteverdi
• Johnan Pachelbel
• Antonio Vivaldi
• George Frideric Handel
• J.S. Bach
• Henry Purcell
Antonio Vivaldi
1678-1741
• Italian Baroque composer & violinist
• Ordained as a priest
• “The Red Priest”
• The Four Seasons (Violin Concertos)
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685-1750
• Baroque composer & organist
• His children were also musicians
• Goldberg Variations
• Brandenberg Concertos
• Mass in B Minor
• The Well-Tempered Clavier
• The Art of Fugue
• St. Matthew Passion
George Frideric Handel
1685-1759
Baroque composer
Born in Germany; moved to England
King of England: George I/George II
Music for the Royal Fireworks
Water Music
Messiah (Hallelujah Chorus) – Oratorio
(large musical composition for
orchestra, choir, soloists)
• Zadok the Priest (played at
coronations)
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Classical Period (1750-1830)
• Lighter, clearer texture than
Baroque.
• Less complex than Baroque
• Standardization of orchestra
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Joseph Haydn
• Ludwig von Beethoven (sorta)
• Nicolo Paganini
Joseph Haydn
1732-1809
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Classical Austrian composer
“Father of the Symphony”
Friend of Mozart, teacher of Beethoven
Lived in Vienna, traveled to London
Oratorios: The Seasons, Creation
Over 100 Symphonies!!!
Surprise Symphony (No. 94)
London Symphony
Clock Symphony
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1756-1791
• German/Austrian Classical composer
• Child prodigy… traveled and performed
• Most famously lived in Vienna
• Friend of Haydn
• “A Little Night Music” (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik)
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Opera: The Magic Flute
Opera: Don Giovanni
Opera: Marriage of Figaro
Jupiter Symphony (No. 41)
Requiem: Unfinished
Ludwig von Beethoven
1770-1827
• German composer and pianist
• Classical/Romantic transition era
• Moved to Vienna in 1792. Studied with
Haydn
• Hearing loss – almost deaf by end of life
• Third Symphony – Eroica (Napoleon)
• Only opera: Fidelio
• Famed Ninth Symphony
• Kreutzer Sonata
• Moonlight Sonata