The Baroque Music through History

Baroque PeriodDuring the Baroque period of orchestral music, theleader of the group was usually the harpsichordist orviolinist in the group.Baroque musicians also had a lot of work tocomplete. For ex.

Composing new music for weeklyconcerts, and rehearsing and managing theorchestra,they also had to take care of the instrumentsand the music library.Antonio Vivaldi was a young violinist, around the? age of 15 he wrote his first opera Ottone in Vila.People love Vivaldi’s works. Vivaldi composed a fewmore opera but people did not like them. Vivaldi isknown for his orchestral works the Four Seasons.