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Composers of the Baroque era, ordered by date of birth:

Transition from Renaissance to Baroque (born 1500–1549)

Composers in the Renaissance/Baroque transitional era include the following (listed by their date of birth):

Early Baroque era composers (born 1550–1599)

Composers of the Early Baroque era include the following figures listed by the probable or proven date of their birth:

Middle Baroque era composers (born 1600–1649)

Composers of the Middle Baroque era include the following figures listed by the date of their birth:

Late Baroque era composers (born 1650–1699)

Composers of the Late Baroque era include the following figures listed by the date of their birth:

Early Galante era composers – transition from Baroque to Classical (born 1700 and after)

Composers during the transition from the Baroque to Classical eras, sometimes seen as the beginning of the Galante era, include the following figures listed by their date of birth:

Brief timeline

Jean-Joseph de Mondonville Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Baldassare Galuppi Carlos Seixas Johann Adolf Hasse Riccardo Broschi Johann Joachim Quantz Pietro Locatelli Giuseppe Tartini Leonardo Vinci Johann Friedrich Fasch Francesco Geminiani Nicola Porpora Silvius Leopold Weiss George Frideric Handel Domenico Scarlatti Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Gottfried Walther Jean-Philippe Rameau Johann David Heinichen Georg Philipp Telemann Jan Dismas Zelenka Antonio Vivaldi Tomaso Albinoni Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer Antonio Caldara Turlough O'Carolan François Couperin Alessandro Scarlatti Henry Purcell Michel Richard Delalande Marin Marais Arcangelo Corelli Johann Pachelbel Heinrich Ignaz Biber Dieterich Buxtehude Marc Antoine Charpentier Jean-Baptiste Lully Jean-Henri d'Anglebert Johann Heinrich Schmelzer Barbara Strozzi Johann Jakob Froberger Giacomo Carissimi Antonio Bertali William Lawes Francesco Cavalli Samuel Scheidt Heinrich Schütz Girolamo Frescobaldi Gregorio Allegri Claudio Monteverdi Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Jacopo Peri

See also

There is considerable overlap near the beginning and end of this era. See lists of composers for the previous and following eras: