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,
Bourbon Baroque Bourbon Baroque Bourbon Baroque is a period instrument ensemble founded by harpsichordist John Austin Clark and baroque violinist Nicolas Fortin (1980–2016) in the summer of 2007 in Louisville, Kentucky. The ensemble specialises in historical informed performance of the music of the 17th and 18th centuries. The ensemble performs concerts as well as full opera productions. The 2010 production of George Frideric Handel's opera "Alcina" has been recorded for TV and aired first on April 12, 2011. Bourbon Baroque has been performing Handel's "Messiah" in the holiday season every year since 2013. Bourbon Baroque performs regularly throughout the year in a