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Baroque Keyboard Masters
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Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
Signature Works: Pièces de Clavecin. Contributions: One of the few well-known female composers of the era, her music is characterized by its virtuosity and expressive detail.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Signature Works: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Goldberg Variations, Inventions and Sinfonias. Contributions: Developed the Baroque style to its peak, with complex counterpoint and technical demands.
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Signature Works: Pièces de clavecin, Treatise on Harmony. Contributions: Influential theorist as well as composer; his compositions were innovative in harmony and form.
Dietrich Buxtehude
Signature Works: Suite in E minor, La Capricciosa. Contributions: His keyboard music has a rhetorical and expressive style, often characterized by a dramatic and improvisatory feel.
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Signature Works: Fiori musicali, Toccata. Contributions: Pioneer in the development of the Baroque keyboard style, particularly known for his toccatas that influenced future generations.
Johann Jacob Froberger
Signature Works: Suite for keyboard, Lamentations. Contributions: Played a pivotal role in the development of the suite for keyboard, and his programmatic works were precursors to later descriptive pieces.
Domenico Scarlatti
Signature Works: 555 Keyboard Sonatas. Contributions: Introduced new techniques such as hand-crossing, and explored the use of thematic development and ornamentation.
Louis Couperin
Signature Works: Unmeasured preludes for harpsichord. Contributions: Contributed significantly to the development of French harpsichord music, particularly in the use of unmeasured preludes.
George Frideric Handel
Signature Works: Suites de pièces pour le clavecin, Chaconne in G major. Contributions: Known for his melodic inventiveness and the integration of various European styles into keyboard works.
François Couperin
Signature Works: Pièces de clavecin, L’art de toucher le clavecin. Contributions: Perfected a refined French style of keyboard writing, emphasis on ornamentation and unique finger techniques.
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