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Notable Baroque Composers - Statistics
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| Nationality | Birth | Death | Hint/Notable Work | Answer | % Correct |
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| Italian | 1678 | 1741 | The Four Seasons | Antonio Vivaldi | 98%
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| German | 1685 | 1750 | Brandenburg Concertos | Johann Sebastian Bach | 98%
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| German/British | 1685 | 1759 | The Messiah | George Frideric Handel | 97%
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| German | 1653 | 1706 | Canon in D | Johann Pachelbel | 91%
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| English | 1659 | 1695 | Dido and Aeneas | Henry Purcell | 84%
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| Italian | 1685 | 1757 | Composer of 555 keyboard sonatas. | Dominico Scarlatti | 76%
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| Italian | 1567 | 1643 | Considered one of the first opera composers. Transitional late Renaissance and early Baroque composer. | Claudio Monteverdi | 72%
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| Italian | 1653 | 1713 | Important composer in the development of common practice harmony. One of the first composers to write exclusively in major or minor keys. | Arcangelo Corelli | 69%
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| French | 1632 | 1687 | Court composer for King Louis XIV. Best known for writing operas. | Jean-Baptiste Lully | 69%
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| German | 1681 | 1767 | Considered by many to be the most prolific composer in history with more than 3000 works attributed to him. | Georg Philipp Telemann | 67%
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| French | 1668 | 1733 | Known for writing music for the harpsichord, sometimes referred to as “________ le Grand” to distinguish him from other famous composers from the same family. | François Couperin | 57%
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| Danish | 1637 | 1707 | Best known as an organ virtuoso and composer of organ music. Had a large influence on composers such as J.S. Bach and Handel. | Dieterich Buxtehude | 55%
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| French | 1683 | 1764 | His Treatise on Harmony is considered an important early codification of tonal harmony. | Jean-Philippe Rameau | 55%
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| Italian | 1671 | 1751 | Most famous today for a piece he DIDN'T write. The Adagio in G minor, which is often attributed to him, was written by a 20th century musicologist who fraudulently claimed it as a discovery. | Tomaso Albinoni | 53%
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| Italian | 1692 | 1770 | Devil's Trill Sonata | Giuseppe Tartini | 40%
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| Bohemian/Austrian | 1644 | 1704 | Rosary Sonatas | Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber | 38%
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| Italian | 1554 | 1612 | Part of the Venetian school, an important transitional figure from the Renaissance to the Baroque. | Giovanni Gabrieli | 28%
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| Italian | 1583 | 1643 | Virtuoso keyboard player, one of the most important composer of early keyboard works. | Girolamo Frescobaldi | 26%
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| Italian | 1658 | 1709 | Important composer in the early development of the concerto grosso and solo concerto form. | Giuseppe Torelli | 24%
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