Download this book in pdf format and you have all the essential background for the full enjoyment of baroque music... where baroque music originated, how music traveled across the European continent, how it was published and distributed, the different national influences, notes on performance and baroque instruments... and concise biographies of all the major baroque composers with copious contemporary b/w and line drawing illustrations. CONTENTS WHAT IS BAROQUE? THE GRAND TOUR OF EUROPE MUSIC PUBLISHING IN EUROPE Antonio STRADIVARI - Violin maker - Cremona Tomaso ALBINONI - Italy Arcangelo CORELLI - Rome Francois COUPERIN ("the Great") - France Johann Joseph FUX - Austria Francesco GEMINIANI - Italy, England George Frideric HANDEL - Germany, England Henry PURCELL - England Jean Philippe RAMEAU - France Alessandro SCARLATTI (father) - Italy Domenico SCARLATTI (son) - Italy, Spain John STANLEY - England Georg Philipp TELEMANN - Germany Antonio VIVALDI – Venice Unico Willem van WASSENAER - Holland Jan Dismas ZELENKA - Prague, Dresden Johann Sebastian BACH: EISENACH - MÜHLHAUSEN WEIMAR CÖTHEN LEIPZIG 1 - Cantor and Director of Music LEIPZIG 2 - The Collegium Musicum LEIPZIG 3 - The Introspective Years BAROQUE KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS GOTTFRIED SILBERMANN: Master organ builder BAROQUE MUSIC PERFORMANCE: Produced by the editors at  www.BaroqueMusic.org  where further detail on baroque music can be found. 100pp, numerous b/w and engraved illustrations.

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