Early Classical Music ca. 1550-1750

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Classical 155-1750 music






 
I consider the most important composer of instrumental music in the immediately pre-Bach period to be H.I.F. Biber. His Battalia is almost 20th-century avant-garde in conception: there are passages where several keys are played at once, and the cellists are instructed to play with "extended techniques": inserting a piece of paper behind the strings to imitate canon shots (not very effective admittedly, but it is the idea that counts)


And of course the Mystery Sonatas are such a journey.

This was also a very prolific time for English consort music. The prime exponents were John Jenkins...

...and William Lawes.

The biggest names in keyboard music would be the Domenico Scarlatti and the Couperin family, but I'd like to draw your Frescobaldi and his pupil Froberger. The former has written a remarkable set of 100 variations on a passacaglia theme.

While the latter has given us a large volume of Toccatas.
 
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I consider the most important composer of instrumental music in the immediately pre-Bach period to be H.I.F. Biber. His Battalia is almost 20th-century avant-garde in conception: there are passages where several keys are played at once, and the cellists are instructed to play with "extended techniques": inserting a piece of paper behind the strings to imitate canon shots (not very effective admittedly, but it is the idea that counts)
That poor bastard playing the lute, the triangle of the baroque chamber music scene.
 
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