Baroque music

Robert Tournières, Concert, France, 1690s, showing a baroque cello, virginal, singer, violin, and French baroque lute.

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San Giuseppe dei Falegnami, Rome. The large wooden bow-fronted organ gallery, which is corbelled out and occupies the entire width of the nave. The actual organ case is a spectacularly intricate piece of Baroque design featuring carved angels blowing trumpets. Just above the pipes is a fresco of an angelic musical trio.

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Baroque music the Baroque is the earliest period in European music whose music is still widely heard. Handel and Bach were two major artists in this genre. Handel was German who spent most of his days in England and is most highly recognized because of his religious pieces. Bach was a well known organist and the music director for the Church of Saint Thomas. His work gave him the reputation of one of the greatest composers of all time