The Classical Music Book

79 An Allegory of Friendship by Dutch artist Johannes Voorhout shows Buxtehude leaning on his elbow. Among the other musicians i ...

80 THE NEW ORPHEUS OF OUR TIMES CONCERTI GROSSI, OP. 6 (1714), ARCANGELO CORELLI T he Italian term “concerto” was initially used ...

81 See also: The Four Seasons 92–97 ■ Musique de table 106 ■ Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor 179 BAROQUE 1600 –1750 ...

82 U ntil François Couperin’s Ordres, or suites, French keyboard music had largely taken the form of Baroque popular dances, suc ...

83 A young girl learns to play the harpsichord in The Music Lesson by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. François Couperin taught music to L ...

WHAT THE ENGLISH LIKE IS SOMETHING THEY CAN BEAT TIME TO WATER MUSIC, HWV 348–350 (1717), GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL US_084-089_Hand ...

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86 AN INTERNATIONAL STYLE IN CONTEXT FOCUS An international style BEFORE 1660s Following the restoration of the monarchy in Engl ...

BAROQUE 1600 –1750 87 In 1717, George I asked Handel to compose the music for a barge trip down the Thames. The music needed to ...

88 AN INTERNATIONAL STYLE director. He traveled to Europe to engage the finest orchestral musicians and the most celebrated sing ...

BAROQUE 1600 –1750 89 (174 3), and Belshazzar (174 5). Messiah was so popular that men were asked to attend performances without ...

90 DO NOT EXPECT ANY PROFOUND INTENTION, BUT RATHER AN INGENIOUS JESTING WITH ART SONATA IN D MINOR, K. 9 “PASTORALE” (1738), DO ...

91 See also: Pièces de clavecin 82–83 ■ Musique de table 106 ■ Clementi’s Piano Sonata in F-sharp minor, Op. 25, No. 5 132–133 ■ ...

SPRING HAS COME, AND WITH IT GAIETY THE FOUR SEASONS ( 1725 ), ANTONIO VIVALDI US_092-097_Vivaldi.indd 92 26/03/18 1:00 PM ...

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94 I n Italy, in the 1720s, Vivaldi was best known as a composer of operas, but in northern Europe—as well as after the composer ...

95 Antonio Vivaldi Vivaldi was born in 1678, the son of a violinist in the orchestra of St. Mark’s in Venice. He initially train ...

96 ITALIAN BAROQUE SOLO CONCERTO The score of “Spring” from The Four Seasons, part of L’estro armonico (Harmonic Inspiration), a ...

97 describes musically in the first movement of the “Spring” concerto, where the opening ritornello is a dance representing the ...

THE END AND FINAL AIM OF ALL MUSIC SHOULD BE NONE OTHER THAN THE GLORY OF GOD ST. MATTHEW PASSION (1727), JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH ...