Minuet by Elisabeth Claude Jacquet de la guerre
Minuet by Elisabeth Claude Jacquet de la guerre (1705-1750) Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729 was a French musician, harpsichordist and composer.
Baroque
Air en Gavotte by Christopher Graupner
Air en Gavotte by Christoph Graupner (1683-1760) Christoph Graupner was a German harpsichordist and composer of high Baroque music who lived and worked at the same time as Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and George Frideric Handel.
Dance Song by Johann Sigismund Scholze
Dance Song by Johann Sigismund Scholze (1705-1750) Johann Sigismund Scholze was a Silesian music anthologist and poet.
Sonatina by William Ducombe
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
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
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
Preludio by Giovanni Zamboni (Guitar Tab)
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 Freidric Handel (Guitar Tab)
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 (Guitar Tab)
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
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 …