Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra Musica Angelica is an internationally renowned Baroque orchestra based in Long Beach, California and led by music director Martin Haselböck, award-winning organist, conductor, and composer. Musica Angelica is dedicated to the historically informed performance of Baroque and early Classical music on period instruments. Its programs include a mixture of known masterworks by composers such as Bach, Handel and Vivaldi, along with rarely heard ‘musical gems’ by lesser-known composers. Musica Angelica was founded in 1992 by lutenist Michael Eagan and gambist Mark Chatfield. Since its inception, Musica Angelica has produced an annual subscription season of orchestral and
Mateo Romero (composer) Franco-Flemish school, he played an important role in the introduction of Italian "stile moderno" in Spain. Most of his works, which were stored in the Royal Library in Lisbon, were destroyed in the Lisbon earthquake of 1755. Surviving works include: Masses: Magnificats, Psalms and Motets: Secular works: Mateo Romero (composer) Mateo Romero (ca. 1575 – 1647) was a Belgian-born Spanish composer of Baroque music and master of the royal chapel. Romero was born as Mathieu Rosmarin in Liège, Belgium, and, following the early death of his father was, like many children from the then-Spanish Netherlands, recruited as a child to