Samuel Scheidt
Samuel Scheidt (baptized November 3, 1587 – March 24, 1654) was a German composer, organist, and teacher from the early Baroque era.
Georg Böhm
Georg Böhm was born on September 2, 1661, and died on May 18, 1733. He was a German Baroque organist and composer. He is well-known for helping to create the chorale partita and for having an effect on the young J.
Johann Adam Reincken
Johann Adam Reincken (also known as Jan Adams, Jean Adam, Reinken, Reinkinck, Reincke, Reinicke, Reinike; born December 10, 1643 – died November 24, 1722) was a Dutch and German organist and composer. He was one of the most important composers of the 17th century, a friend of Dieterich Buxtehude, and had a major influence on Johann Sebastian Bach. However, very few of his works have survived to the present day.
John Blow
John Blow (born 23 February 1649 – died 1 October 1708) was an English composer and organist during the Baroque period. He was appointed as the organist of Westminster Abbey in late 1668. He taught students such as William Croft, Jeremiah Clarke, and Henry Purcell.
Matthew Locke (composer)
Locke was born in Exeter and was a singer in the choir of Exeter Cathedral, where he worked under Edward Gibbons, the brother of Orlando Gibbons. At eighteen years old, Locke traveled to the Netherlands, and it is possible he converted to Roman Catholicism during this time. Locke, along with Christopher Gibbons (the son of Orlando), created the music for Cupid and Death, a masque written in 1653 by playwright James Shirley.
Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons (baptized on December 25, 1583 – June 5, 1625) was an English composer and keyboard player who was one of the last great musicians of the English Virginalist School and English Madrigal School. He was the most famous member of a musical family. By the 1610s, he was the leading composer and organist in England.
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
Élisabeth Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (born Jacquet, March 17, 1665 – June 27, 1729) was a French musician, harpsichordist, and composer. She was an important person in French Baroque music, especially in the development of cantatas and keyboard music. She was one of the first women in France to be recognized as a composer, and her music was performed and published widely.
Isabella Leonarda
Isabella Leonarda was born on September 6, 1620, and died on February 25, 1704. She was an Italian composer from Novara. When she was 16 years old, she joined the Collegio di Sant’Orsola, an Ursuline convent, and remained there for the rest of her life.
Barbara Strozzi
Barbara Strozzi (also known as Barbara Valle; born August 6, 1619 – died November 11, 1677) was a composer and singer from Venice during a time in music history called the Baroque Period. During her lifetime, Strozzi published eight books of her own music. She had more secular music (music that was not religious) printed than any other composer of her time.
Reinhard Keiser
Reinhard Keiser was born on January 9, 1674, and died on September 12, 1739. He was a German opera composer who lived and worked in Hamburg. He composed more than 100 operas.