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Claudio Monteverdi
- 1567-1643
- Italian
- Orfeo: Toccata, A l'amara novella and Tu se' morta, possente spirto
- Arianna
- wrote first important opera
- did not get paid for what he deserved and was humiliated by it
- became maestro di cappella in Venice
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Barbara Strozzi
- 1619-1677
- Italian
- L'amente segreto
- Voglio Morire
- great woman composer
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Henry Purcell
- 1659-1695
- English
- Dido and Aeneas
- "greatest of all English composers"
- wrote one of first English operas
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Arcangelo Corelli
- 1653-1713
- Italian
- Trio Sonata in C Major, Opus 4, No. 1
- first superstar of violin
- only person buried in Rome's Pantheon
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Antonio Vivaldi
- 1678-1741
- Italian
- Violin Concerto in E Major, Opus 8, No. 1, The Spring
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Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1685-1750
- German
- Organ Fugue in G minor
- Well-tempered Clavier
- The Brandenburg Concertos
- Wachet Auf, ruft uns die stimme
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George Frideric Handel
- 1685-1759
- German
- Water Music
- Rinaldo
- Messiah
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