#Baroque Composers

[thelonesomepianist]

Happy birthday Herr Bach ♡

[silvazeanimaniacsfangirl642]

Happy 345th Birthday Antonio Vivaldi

[interludehk]

The Baroque music period produced some of the most intense, dramatic, devotional, appealing, and simply most beautiful music imaginable. In school, we are all told that the Baroque music period falls between the years 1600 and 1750. “Baroque” is a very general and relatively recent term adopted for this historical period. And while no era starts and ends at the stroke of midnight, the bookmark years do designate important signposts. Baroque composers and listen to performances on Interlude.

[gasparodasalo]

Johann Gottfried Walther (1684-1748) - Concerto for Solo Organ in b-minor (after Vivaldi RV 275), III. Allegro. Performed by Luca Scandali, organ.

[sesamenom]

some ideas from an au where maglor just keeps living in britain (/himring?)

especially in the earlier eras he had to put a lot more effort into styling/dyeing his hair to cover his ears & the blueness/Elf Sparkle. he also wore glasses for a while to dim the Treelight Eyes (because even as badly faded as he is, it's still really obvious with how old he is).

[ariuuokay]

I FINALLY FOUND THE MEME I NEEDED JUST FOR THIS,anyways I'm having an art shortage rn I'm crying,kicking, screaming,But here they are!Happy fruity tooty month everyone and to these two:3🌸🏳️‍🌈

[monotonous-minutia]

give me mezzos or give me death.

well maybe not death but severe annoyance in the amount of productions casting tenors/countertenors in roles that were written for mezzos or sopranos.

[lesser-known-composers]

Paolo Lorenzani (1640-1713) - Dialogue entre Jesus et l'Ame a 5 voix avec simphonie

Choir: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Conductor: Herve Niquet

[th3-0bjectivist]

Dear listener, I tried listening to six full hours of mainstream radio this week again. I tried, oh, sweet merciful Jesus, I tried. Lo, I have at this point all but confirmed that modern radio is a steaming pool of liquid dogshit. Given a second appraisal, it’s dogshit with a candy-coated hardshell for ease of ingestion! The disheartening repetition, the complete lack of cutting-edge creativity and genuine emotion, ten to twenty ass-ramming commercials in a row only to come back to the feckless frenzy of fail that comprises the vast, vast majority of modern music? It was all terribly grating, and somehow the music was even worse. As soon as I couldn’t take a millisecond more of the doldrums of modern radio, I went to YouTube and listened to two straight and comparatively blissful hours of immortal work by Antonio Vivaldi. So, get into the time machine again with me dear listener, and set course for the early 1700’s, a time when radio didn't exist! The social standards might not have been top-notch, but the powdered wigs were undeniably gorgeous, and the quality of the music… to die for!!!

As anyone who comes from a musical family has likely experienced, Vivaldi had the principles of composition fused to his DNA, and perhaps even down to the subatomic level with the help of his father. Having trained for priesthood in his early years, Vivaldi instead gradually gravitated toward a now celebrated career in music. Becoming an elite level violinist under the tutelage of his father Giovanni Battista, whom he regularly toured Venice and played duelling violins with, this legend of orchestra developed an immense capacity for transforming the basics of music into something so immensely interwoven and sublime that very few can or will ever dare so much as approach the legitimate majesty of his body of orchestral work. Known as something of an Italian religious dogmatist, his calling to the church and desire to be a priest secured him the nickname ‘Il Prete Rosso’ (The Red Priest) because he was a ginger, or in modern politically correct parlance… a natural red head. During a three-decade long gig serving as Master of Violin at an historical Vincentian orphanage, Ospedale della Pietà, Vivaldi managed to gather inspiration and organize his most emotionally powerful compositions. I could probably add a lot of unnecessary details here, but his greatest and most everlasting works are part of his ‘The Four Seasons’, a set of four violin concertos that are meant to express nearly the precise sensations and emotions of summer, winter, autumn, and spring. If you smash play on the above track you will be treated to Presto (from the Summer section), a song you probably know or have heard before. Presto means ‘quickly’ in Italian and is performed at one of the quickest speeds a human can possibly play music (second only to prestissimo speed, I think). Vivaldi also had a strange disease throughout all his life which many historians suspect might have been severe asthma. And with his penchant for taking numerous ‘leaves of absences’ to tour the world and develop an international reputation, this clearly mega-talented rockstar of yester-century ended up spending all the money he earned during his lifetime. Sadly, after approaching the end of his life and skidding through a decade’s worth of career decline, all accounts show that he died completely broke, having spent what little money he had left on multiple assistants that circumnavigated him through his now dire and at the time completely untreatable health issues. Vivaldi isn’t my personal favorite composer of all-time, I’ll leave that distinction to Bach (who himself was inspired by Vivaldi). But his works live on to this very day because he accomplished exactly what he strove to do; embody the excellence of execution in his craft to produce works that bring us together as human beings and sometimes inspire a rare spark of imagination to propel us to create the very best work we can possibly bring forth.

Right above this paragraph is a live variation of The Four Seasons, a classic musical work of art and transcendent beauty that I cannot recommend highly enough. Vivaldi sure did one thing that modern, corporately funded, concentrated and even desperate bands just can’t… and that is actually innovate. He had immense natural technical skills, had them brought to bloom by his family and his own efforts, and he ended up creating over 500 instrumental and choral works, plus about 40 operas. Have *you* created 500 instrumental and choral works and 40 operas!? Didn’t think so. So, get to work on that! And join me next time for some jaunty Brahms. Image source: https://www.craiyon.com/image/dPwZA5VRRTawSH1T9Sslcw

[chelleinyy]

Some Vivaldi before I disappear again

[casualclassical]

The Classical Composer Zodiac

[bigmilk-13]

If someone gets this without looking it up, I will literally marry you.

My favourite classical piece is Concerto No.4 in F Minor, Op. 8 RV 297 by Antonio Vivaldi.

[gasparodasalo]

Christoph Graupner (1683-1760) - Concerto for Flauto d'amore, Oboe d'amore, Viola d'amore, Strings and Basso continuo in G-Major, GWV 333, II. Allegro. Performed by Marcel Ponseele/Ensemble Il Gardellino on period instruments.

[ourmindonmusicpodcast]

Happy Birthday, Antonio Vivaldi! Celebrating the Timeless Genius of a Musical Legend

[davidbeardmusic]

What shall I do to Show by Henry Purcell (1659–1695). A moving, majestic, graceful, classical composition from the Baroque period arranged and performed on Piano, Flutes and Cello. Please license here for media use: https://audiojungle.net/item/purcell-piano-1/23027770 Also available in 'Piano only' and 'Flutes & Cello only'. Useful for patriotic or religous projects, drone footage, video production, history and documentaries, projects on Royalty, Ceremony, Grand Public Occasion, Period, Costume Dramas, Funerals, War, Sad Occaisons etc. Applicable to the creation of film, television, commercials, documentaries, film trailer cues, history programs, advertising, architecture, impressive buildings etc. For more music for media use visit https://audiojungle.net/user/davidbeardmusicproduction/portfolio

[leninisms]

i said play baroque music and spotify is playing adagio for strings get the fuck out of my face