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baroque ( - )

Johann Sebastian Bach

No other composer in the history of Western music quite compares to Johann Sebastian Bach. With the sole exception of opera, he mastered every existing genre of music and helped create several new ones, such as the keyboard concerto.

It is no wonder that contemporaries held him in such high esteem.

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Soon after his death, however, he was all but forgotten, regarded only as a writer of impenetrably difficult keyboard music and some useful exercises for students. It was left to later musicians, notably Mozart and Mendelssohn, to rediscover Bach.

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Francesca Caccini

Francesca Caccini was one of the best-known female composers and performers of the Baroque era.

Moreover, she is the first woman known to have written an opera. Unfortunately only one of her operas, La liberazione di Ruggiero dallâisola dâAlcina, survives.

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George Frideric Handel

Unlike most composers of the Baroque era, George Frider