#8548, aired 2022-01-05 | LESSER-KNOWN COMPOSERS $400: Cecilia Bartoli unearths arias by obscure composers Vinci & Steffani on her 2020 album "Queen of" this 17th c. musical era Baroque |
#8447, aired 2021-07-20 | COMPOSERS, PAINTERS & SCIENTISTS $800: You're listening to the most famous work of this Italian Baroque composer Vivaldi |
#5037, aired 2006-07-04 | COMPOSERS $1200: Go for Baroque & name this composer of "Music for the Royal Fireworks" Handel |
#4493, aired 2004-03-03 | HANDEL $800: Along with Bach, Handel is considered one of the greatest composers of the late era of this musical style Baroque |
#3283, aired 1998-12-09 | GOING FOR BAROQUE $100: Baroque composers developed monody, vocal music with this many melodies & supported by harmony 1 |
#2935, aired 1997-05-09 | COMPOSERS $800: This German Baroque composer wrote his "Hunt Cantata" for the birthday of the Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels Bach |
#2857, aired 1997-01-21 | COMPOSERS $400: Published after his death, "The Art of the Fugue" was this Baroque composer's last work Johann Sebastian Bach |
#2529, aired 1995-09-07 | BAROQUE COMPOSERS $200: This composer's brother Johann Christoph taught him to build & play the organ Johann Sebastian Bach |
#2529, aired 1995-09-07 | BAROQUE COMPOSERS $400: This "Candide" author wrote librettos for Baroque composer Jean-Philippe Rameau Voltaire |
#2529, aired 1995-09-07 | BAROQUE COMPOSERS $600: "The Four Seasons" is part of his Opus 8, which appeared in 1725 Vivaldi |
#2529, aired 1995-09-07 | BAROQUE COMPOSERS $800: In 1653 Jean-Baptiste Lully became composer to this French king with whom he danced in a ballet Louis XIV |
#2529, aired 1995-09-07 | BAROQUE COMPOSERS $1000: This German traveled to London in 1710 to produce his opera "Rinaldo" & decided to stay Handel |
#2509, aired 1995-06-29 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $600: In 1723 this Baroque composer was appointed choir leader at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig (Johann Sebastian) Bach |
#2260, aired 1994-06-03 | COMPOSERS $800: In 1850, exactly 100 years after his death, a society was formed in Leipzig to promote his Baroque works (Johann Sebastian) Bach |
#1581, aired 1991-06-17 | COMPOSERS $400: This great Baroque composer's last work was "Die Kunst der Fuge", or "The Art of the Fugue" (Johann Sebastian) Bach |
#1554, aired 1991-05-09 | COMPOSERS $600: In the Baroque period so many of this family held musical jobs in Erfurt, their name came to mean musician Bach |
#997, aired 1988-12-27 | COMPOSERS $400: This Baroque composer's name translates to "John S. Brook" Johann Sebastian Bach |
#830, aired 1988-03-25 | GOING FOR BAROQUE $400: Like many notable Baroque composers, Couperin held this instrumental post in a church organist |
#798, aired 1988-02-10 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $600: Of Bach, Beethoven, or Brahms, the one who was a Baroque composer Bach |
#361, aired 1986-01-27 | COMPOSERS $200: Since his sons were musicians, this greatest Baroque composer could have written a family fugue J.S. Bach |