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,
Matthew Locke (composer) Charles as Composer of the Wind Music ("music for the King's sackbutts and cornets"), and Composer for the Violins. (His successor in the latter office was Henry Purcell, who composed an ode on the death of Locke entitled "What hope for us remains now he is gone?", Z. 472; Locke was a family friend and may have had an influence on the young composer). In 1675 he composed the music for the score of Thomas Shadwell's "Psyche". Matthew Locke (composer) Matthew Locke (c. 1621 – August 1677) was an English Baroque composer and music theorist. Locke was born in Exeter