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Baptized June 1, 1653
Died February 23, 1704 • Passau • 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
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Johann Jakob Froberger
German composer
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi
Italian composer
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Arcangelo Corelli
Italian musician
François Couperin
François Couperin
French composer [1668-1733]
Purcell, Henry
Henry Purcell
English composer
Jean-Baptiste Lully, engraving by Geille after Johannot, c. 1830.
Jean-Baptiste Lully
French composer
Alessandro Scarlatti, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 1692; in the Palacio del Duque de Hijar, Epila, Spain
Alessandro Scarlatti
Italian composer
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Italian composer
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Dietrich Buxtehude
Danish composer
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Francesco Geminiani
Italian musician
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Marin Marais
French composer
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Johann Hermann Schein
German composer
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Christoph Graupner
German composer
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Georg Böhm
German composer
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Johann Philipp Krieger
German composer
C.P.E. Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
German composer
Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz
German composer