Baroque music Baroque music Baroque music ( or ) is a period or style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750. This era followed the Renaissance music era, and was followed in turn by the Classical era. Baroque music forms a major portion of the "classical music" canon, and is now widely studied, performed, and listened to. Key composers of the Baroque era include Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, George Frideric Handel, Claudio Monteverdi, Domenico Scarlatti, Alessandro Scarlatti, Henry Purcell, Georg Philipp Telemann, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Arcangelo Corelli, Tomaso Albinoni, François Couperin, Giuseppe Tartini, Heinrich Schütz,
Baroque sculpture of traditional classical ideas with new Baroque opinions. His inspiration by antique is the moste visible at Tomb of Pope Leo XI created between 1634–44, for which Algardi gained fame around the whole Rome. After that he gained popularity with the Pope Innocent X, too. He was promoted to the post of papal sculptor and commissioned by many works for him. His style was during this period more and more influenced by baroque methods and his sculpture became more dynamic, dramatic and emocional. But still they kept their classic reference and did not link up completely to new approaches. His