MusiciansCCHS 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 Vivaldi1678-1741

• Italian Baroque composer & violinist• Ordained as a priest• “The Red Priest”• The Four Seasons (Violin Concertos)

Johann Sebastian Bach1685-1750

• 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 Handel1685-1759

• 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)

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 Haydn1732-1809

• 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 Mozart1756-1791• German/Austrian Classical composer

• Child prodigy… traveled and performed

• Most famously lived in Vienna

• Friend of Haydn

• “A Little Night Music” (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik)

• Opera: The Magic Flute

• Opera: Don Giovanni

• Opera: Marriage of Figaro

• Jupiter Symphony (No. 41)

• Requiem: Unfinished

Ludwig von Beethoven1770-1827

• 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