Sonatina by William Duncombe (1736-1818) William Duncombe was an English composer. He was organist in Kensington. He is mainly known by a few small piano pieces (especially a Sonatina in C Major and the Fanfare or Fanfare Minuet) that are still reprinted in pedagogical collections. They are probably excerpts of the Progressive lessons for the …
Musical Pastime by Valentin Rathgeber (1682-1750) Johann Valentin Rathgeber was a German composer, organist and choirmaster of the Baroque Era. Valentin Rathgeber was a versatile and productive composer and he was one of the most popular and respected composers in the southern Germany. He composed both secular and sacred works, but the most of his …
Chaconne by Johann Anton Logy (1645 – 1721) Johann Anton Logy composed mostly dance suites. Losy mastered French lute style and his extant works demonstrate his intelligence, bright spirited love for the lute. His extensive and highly creative works are scattered through various archives
Prelude from Sonate d’intavolatura de leuto, Opus 1 by Giovanni Zamboni (early 18th-century) Giovanni Zamboni was a baroque composer. Zamboni was an able musician—he mastered theorbo, lute, guitar, mandola, mandoline and harpsichord and he was also skilled in counterpoint. His works include a set of 11 sonatas (Sonate d’intavolatura di leuto op. 1) for the …
Overture from the Messiah by George Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) Messiah (HWV 56) is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel. The text was compiled from the King James Bible and the Coverdale Psalter by Charles Jennens. It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742 and received its London premiere nearly …
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Bourree Anglais by Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750) Silvius Leopold Weiss was a German composer and lutenist. Weiss was one of the most important and most prolific composers of lute music in history and one of the best-known and most technically accomplished lutenists of his day. He wrote around 600 pieces for lute, most of them …
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Minuet in D by Welzel von Radolt (1667-1716) Von Radolt came from a distinguished Vienna family, his family being a high steward in the Emperor’s household. His first and only known printed work was entited “Dir Aller Treueste Freindin, published in Vienna in 1701”. It comprised five volumes containing parts for concerted works for three …
Contredanse en Rondeau by Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) Jean-Philippe Rameau was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era. Little is known about Rameau’s early years, and it was not until the 1720s that he won fame as a major theorist of music with his Treatise on Harmony (1722). …
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Jig from Love and Honor by Thomas Morgan (1650-1710) Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance. Defining the beginning of the musical era is difficult, given the gradually adopted “Renaissance” characteristics: musicologists have placed its beginnings from as early as 1300 to as late as the 1470s.
Sonanta in G by Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style.
