Representative composers of the Baroque period: George Friedrich Handel and Claudio Monteverdi.

1. George Friedrich Handel

The representative works include "Almira", "Hallelujah", etc.

Georg Friedrich Handel, a British-German composer, studied composition under the organist Zhahao, and later served as organist and art director in the church. Because of his love for secular music, he moved to Hamburg in 1703 and began to write operas. After 1706, he composed in Hamburg and London, and soon became an authority on music in the UK.

2. Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Monteverdi was the first great composer of the "new music" in the Baroque period. His major works include "Orfeo", "The Return of Ulysses", "The Coronation of Poppea", etc.

Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer. The first public opera house was built in Venice in 1637. He was a pioneer of modern orchestral music.

Extended information

The works of the Baroque period are extremely complex in style, but generally speaking, they reflect the desire to embody emotion in perceptually attractive forms.

The most common characteristics are majestic, vigorous, dynamic, tense atmosphere, focusing on light and light effects, good at expressing various strong emotions and a sense of infinity, and quite breaking through various arts. Boundary trends. The solemn and noble characteristics of the art of the Baroque period come from the combination of the essence of classical ancient art developed during the Renaissance and the restraining effect of ethical concepts.

Composition techniques unique to the Baroque period. Write a clear note in the bass part of the score of a keyboard instrument (usually a clavichord), and mark it with a number indicating the harmony above it (for example, the number 6 means that the note should have its sixth and third notes above it) . The player plays the bass and harmony according to this prompt, and the arrangement and texture of the chord's notes are chosen by the player.

Influenced by scientific developments and the exploration of the Earth, a new interest in nature arose. These two aspects of activities have prompted human beings to have a new view of themselves. On the one hand, they feel that they are insignificant (especially influenced by Copernicus's argument that the earth is not the center of the universe). On the other hand, they feel that they are sacred and great because they are in the center of the universe. There has been a major breakthrough in knowledge.