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Baroque music is Western classical music from the Baroque era, after the Renaissance music era and before the Classical music era proper. This roughly covers the time period from Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) through Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Baroque music forms a major portion of the classical music canon and is widely performed and enjoyed.
Among the great composers of the early Baroque were Monteverdi and Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672). In the middle baroque the most influential composers include Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713), and Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695). In the late Baroque, the leading figures include Bach (1685-1750), George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), and Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741).
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