
Originally Posted by
Weston
Pachelbel? Not in my opinion.
People seem to gravitate toward the end of the baroque era, but let's not dismiss the long earlier period with some fantastic composers.
Claudio Monteverdi
Henrich Schutz (hey, I'm too lazy to get the two dots over the "u")
Archangelo Corelli
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Some of my favorites from the later period:
Domenico Scarlatti - sounds like no one else before or after.
Georg Phillip Telemann - possibly the most prolific composer ever.
Jean-Philippe Rameau - said to be a bit unpleasant, his music is far from it. The Dardanus suite locked me into baroque for a couple of decades.
I'll stop there, though I have many more.