Baroque Music
by Claude V. Palisca
Period: Baroque
Born: Thursday, April 9, 1598 in Gross Breesen, Prussia
Died: Thursday, February 23, 1662 in Berlin, Germany
Nation of Origin: Germany
Major Works:
Masses, motets, chorales, and other sacred music.
Several of his chorale melodies were later used by J. S. Bach.
Other Information:
General Bibliography:
Bukofzer, Manfred F., Music in the Baroque Era, from Monteverdi to Bach, W.W. Norton & Company, November 1947, ISBN: 0393097455
Kennedy, Michael, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 1997, ISBN: 0198691629
Palisca, Claude V. Baroque Music, Prentice Hall, December 1990, ISBN: 0130584967
Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc., January 2001, ISBN: 1561592390
Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group, December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257
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