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Born January 7, 1634 • Poland
Died June 30, 1666 (aged 32) • Dresden • Germany
Movement / Style Baroque music
Painting by Elias Gottlieb Hausmann of Johann Sebastian Bach wearing a dark coat with a white shirt and holding a sheet of music in his left hand.
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer
Oil portrait of composer Georg Frideric Handel by Thomas Hudson, showing Handel in a red coat with gold trim, white wig, and holding a sheet of music.
George Frideric Handel
German-English composer
Telemann, Georg Philipp
Georg Philipp Telemann
German composer
C.P.E. Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
German composer
Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz
German composer
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Johann Christian Bach
German composer
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, drawing by P. Gulle, 1783; in the Staatsbibliothek, Berlin
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
German composer
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Georg Muffat
German composer
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John Christopher Pepusch
German composer
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Johann Jakob Froberger
German composer
Pachelbel's Canon
Johann Pachelbel
German composer
Quantz, Johann Joachim
Johann Joachim Quantz
German musician
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Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
German composer
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Heinrich Albert
German composer
Carl Friedrich Abel, engraving by A. Saint-Aubin after a portrait by C.-N. Cochin, 1781
Carl Friedrich Abel
German composer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Purcell, Henry
Henry Purcell
English composer
Domenico Scarlatti, engraving.
Domenico Scarlatti
Italian composer
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi
Italian composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau
French composer