favorite baroque composer?

[high_school_bassoonist]

whats everyone's favorite baroque composer?, try to leave out bach, as that is already said for.

[ttw]

JS Bach followed closely by Handel and the usual suspects: Vivaldi, Telemann, Monteverdi, Rankin, Froberger, etc. It's a long lasting era.

[Composer]

Hmm.

It should be Vivaldi..

[MaestroX]

I like some Monteverdi which I've studied in school, but I always like a bit of Vivaldi

[Composer]

Originally Posted by MaestroX

I like some Monteverdi which I've studied in school, but I always like a bit of Vivaldi

I've studied monteverdi too, but I dont concider him as a baroque composer :wink:

[Shiva]

Hmm, I think i go with good british composer handel on this one. He wrote the wedding famous arrival of the queen of sheba which I like

[stevel]

Originally Posted by Composer

I've studied monteverdi too, but I dont concider him as a baroque composer :wink:

My two picks would be Monteverdi and Telemann.

Monteverdi IS a Baroque composer (as someone said above, it's a long period). Monteverdi is a little like Beethoven in that he bridges the gap between two stylistic periods (Ren/Bar for M, Class/Rom for . Monteverdi himself notes that there are two distinct styles going on in his lifetime, and he writes in both (sort of like if Chuck Berry also wrote Jazz).

Though I agree many people do not really consider him Baroque (largely though because they tend to think of Vivaldi onward as more "baroque-y").

Telemann is far more interesting to me than Bach or Handel (B and H were both born in 1685, T 2 years earlier IIRC). Telemann seems to have a "broader" appeal to me (like Vivaldi) than Bach does - unfortunately he's really overshadowed by Bach and Handel.

Steve

[stevel]

Originally Posted by Shiva

Hmm, I think i go with good british composer handel on this one. He wrote the wedding famous arrival of the queen of sheba which I like

Nah, if i had to be limited to British, I'd go with Purcell! One listen to Dido's Lament won me over (and the rest of it is wonderful too).

Steve

[Cataclysm]

J.S Bach, definitely. Scarlatti and Telemann as well maybe, but Vivaldi's music doesn't have too much variety in it. I'm honestly not quite a fan of many baroque composers.

[Ballaw de Quincewold]

To me, Scarlatti is definitely the most interesting Baroque composer. His compositions offer an INCREDIBLE amount of variety. After him probably Bach, Buxtehude, and Purcell. I dont know if anybody else feels this way, but I tend to see Handel's music as being a kind of joke in comparison to everybody else's.