baroque questions with answers graded A+ 2023/2024

baroque Alessandro Striggio - correct answer 1536/1537 - February 29, 1592 was an Italian composer, instrumentalist and diplomat of the Renaissance. He composed numerous madrigals as well as dramatic music, and by combining the two, became the inventor of madrigal comedy. Emilio de' Cavalieri - correct answer 1550-March 11, 1602 was an Italian composer, producer, organist, diplomat, choreographer and dancer at the end of the Renaissance era. His work was critical in defining the beginning of the musical Baroque era. A member of the Roman School of composers, he was an influential early composer of monody, and wrote what is usually considered to be the first oratorio. Giovanni de' Bardi - correct answer February 5, 1534 - September 1612 Count of Vernio, was an Italian literary critic, writer, composer and soldier. He was host, patron, and inspiration to the group of composers, music theorists and scholars who made up the Florentine Camerata, the group which attempted to restore the aesthetic effect of ancient Greek music to contemporary practice. Vincenzo Galilei - correct answer 1520 - 2 July 1591 was an Italian lutenist, composer, and music theorist. In his study of pitch and string tension, produced perhaps the first non-linear mathematical description of a natural phenomenon known to history. He was also a member of the Florentine Camerata. Claudio Monteverdi - correct answer 15 May 1567 (baptized) - 29 November 1643 was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer. Monteverdi's work, marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period. He developed two individual styles of composition - the heritage of Renaissance polyphony and the new basso continuo technique of the Baroque. Monteverdi wrote one of the earliest operas, L'Orfeo, an innovative work that is still regularly performed. Ottavio Rinuccini - correct answer 20 January 1562 - 28 March 1621 was an Italian poet, courtier, and opera librettist at the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. In collaborating with Jacopo Peri to produce the first opera, Dafne, in 1597, he became the first opera librettist. Jacopo Peri - correct answer 20 August 1561 - 12 August 1633 was an Italian composer and singer. He is often called the inventor of opera. He wrote the first work to be called an opera today, Dafne (around 1597), and also the first opera to have survived to the present day, Euridice (1600). Giulio Caccini - correct answer 8 October 1551 - 10 December 1618 was an Italian composer, teacher, singer, instrumentalist and writer. He was one of the founders of the genre of opera, and one of the single most influential creators of the new Baroque style. Credited with the composition of the first surviving opera, Euridice (1600) Giacomo Carissimi - correct answer baptized April 18, 1605 - January 12, 1674 was an Italian composer who is best know for his oratorios. He composed Jepthe Heinrich Schütz - correct answer October 8, 1585 - November 6, 1672 was a German composer and organist. He wrote what is thought to be the first German opera, Dafne, performed at Torgau in 1627, of which the music has since been lost. Girolamo Frescobaldi - correct answer September, 1583 - March 1, 1643 was a musician from Ferrara, one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. Was appointed organist of St. Peter's Basilica from July 21, 1608 until 1628 and again from 1634 until his death. Alessandro Scarlatti - correct answer 2 May 1660 - 24 October 1725 was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. Jean-Baptiste Lully - correct answer 28 November 1632 - 22 March 1687