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4 days ago · Years active. 17th–18th centuries. The Baroque ( UK: / bəˈrɒk / bə-ROK, US: /- ˈroʊk / -ROHK; French: [baʁɔk]) is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s. [1]
5 days ago · Peter Paul Rubens (born June 28, 1577, Siegen, Nassau, Westphalia [Germany]—died May 30, 1640, Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands [now in Belgium]) was a Flemish painter who was the greatest exponent of Baroque painting’s dynamism, vitality, and sensuous exuberance.
- Charles Scribner
4 days ago · Joseph Haydn (born March 31, 1732, Rohrau, Austria—died May 31, 1809, Vienna) was an Austrian composer who was one of the most important figures in the development of the Classical style in music during the 18th century. He helped establish the forms and styles for the string quartet and the symphony.
- Joseph Haydn was an Austrian composer who was one of the most important figures in the development of the Classical style in music during the 18th...
- Haydn was an extremely prolific composer, and some of his most well-known works include the London Symphonies, The Creation, Trumpet Concerto, and...
- Haydn was the second son of humble parents: his father was a wheelwright, and his mother, before her marriage, was a cook. His younger brother, Mic...
- When Haydn was a child, he received a basic music education from his cousin. He later served as a chorister for St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna,...
- Haydn died peacefully in his home in Vienna in 1809 at the age of 77.
4 days ago · Caravaggio (born September 29, 1571, Milan or Caravaggio [Italy]—died July 18/19, 1610, Porto Ercole, Tuscany) was a leading Italian painter of the late 16th and early 17th centuries who became famous for the intense and unsettling realism of his large-scale religious works.
- Caravaggio (byname of Michelangelo Merisi) was a leading Italian painter of the late 16th and early 17th centuries who became famous for the intens...
- The father of Caravaggio (born Michelangelo Merisi) was Fermo Merisi, and the name of Caravaggio’s mother was Lucia Aratori.
- Caravaggio (byname of Michelangelo Merisi) was probably born in the small town of Caravaggio, Lombardy (in Italy). He spent his early life in both...
- Caravaggio is best known for being a renowned yet controversial Italian painter of the late 1500s and early 1600s. Some of his best-known works of...
3 days ago · From an early age, Bach studied the works of his musical contemporaries of the Baroque period and those of prior generations, and those influences were reflected in his music. Like his contemporaries Handel, Telemann and Vivaldi, Bach composed concertos, suites, recitatives, da capo arias , and four-part choral music and employed basso continuo .
4 days ago · Out-Sider Records present a revamped version of the 1996 Distortion Records Paul Martin compilation with It Happened. 1966-67 garage anthems, jangly folk-rock and baroque pop courtesy of prolific songwriter Paul Myerberg aka Paul Martin.
Les Baroques: If you are from the Netherlands, read no further — this song reached #8! It is “a brilliant pop song”, “bizarre . . . a strange punky original with bassoon fills and a great . . . vocal performance”. Oh, and it is also a “[p]erfect fusion of baroque pop and garage”.
