1. Musicians
CCHS Academic Team

2. Baroque Period – 1600’s into 1700’s
Highly complex, ornate music
Often very fast, rapid changes
of key and meter.
Claudio Monteverdi
Johnan Pachelbel
Antonio Vivaldi
George Frideric Handel
J.S. Bach
Henry Purcell

3. Antonio Vivaldi 1678-1741 Italian Baroque composer & violinist
Ordained as a priest
“The Red Priest”
The Four Seasons (Violin Concertos)

4. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750
Baroque composer & organist
His children were also musicians
Goldberg Variations
Brandenberg Concertos
Mass in B Minor
The Well-Tempered Clavier
The Art of Fugue
St. Matthew Passion

5. George Frideric Handel 1685-1759
Baroque composer
Born in Germany; moved to England
King of England: George I/George II
Music for the Royal Fireworks
Water Music
Messiah (Hallelujah Chorus) – Oratorio (large musical composition for orchestra, choir, soloists)
Zadok the Priest (played at coronations)

6. Classical Period (1750-1830) Lighter, clearer texture than Baroque.
Less complex than Baroque
Standardization of orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Joseph Haydn
Ludwig von Beethoven (sorta)
Nicolo Paganini

7. Joseph Haydn 1732-1809 Classical Austrian composer
“Father of the Symphony”
Friend of Mozart, teacher of Beethoven
Lived in Vienna, traveled to London
Oratorios: The Seasons, Creation
Over 100 Symphonies!!!
Surprise Symphony (No. 94)
London Symphony
Clock Symphony

8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791
German/Austrian Classical composer
Child prodigy… traveled and performed
Most famously lived in Vienna
Friend of Haydn
“A Little Night Music” (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik)
Opera: The Magic Flute
Opera: Don Giovanni
Opera: Marriage of Figaro
Jupiter Symphony (No. 41)
Requiem: Unfinished

9. Ludwig von Beethoven 1770-1827 German composer and pianist
Classical/Romantic transition era
Moved to Vienna in Studied with Haydn
Hearing loss – almost deaf by end of life
Third Symphony – Eroica (Napoleon)
Only opera: Fidelio
Famed Ninth Symphony
Kreutzer Sonata
Moonlight Sonata