Baroque classical romantic contemporary composers biography
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Baroque classical romantic contemporary composers biography
The 30 greatest classical music composers of all time
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Bach is the definitive Baroque composer. If you have sublime Bach you don’t need the others (and we’re only half kidding).
Born in 1685 in Eisenach in Germany, Bach was a prolific composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist.
The music he wrote spanned forces – from solo instrumental works, such as the Cello Suites (below), to huge sacred choral pieces, instrumental concertos like the Brandenburg Concertos, and collections of keyboard music, including The Well-Tempered Clavier, that pushed contemporaneous instruments to their limits.
Read more: 10 of Bach’s all-time best pieces of music
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Continuing the tradition of names with three words and four well-formed syllables in the middle one, is the child prodigy and all-round genius, Mozart.
Composing in, and defining, the Clas