Her face is rather wan as she emerges from a dark background, typical of Baroque portraits. Scipione Borghese—who preferred emotion in art over the cold, at times perverse, academicism of ...
The director of Collegium 1704 talks about Zelenka, the greatest Czech Baroque composer, and his uniquely bold and distinctive approach composition – which still has the capacity to shock and ...
Artistic director of the Boston early-music ... including the director's sometimes dramatic tempo variations. In the baroque era, Toohey noted, "the meter would expand and contract in an ...
The baroque era was a 150 year period in history – 1600 until 1750 – and it included musicians like George Frideric Handel, as well as other composers of their time such as Frenchwoman ...
“Starting in 1607 with Monteverdi’s opera Orfeo and ending in 1759 with the death of the great ‘English’ composer Handel, the Baroque period produced great music of brilliance and ...