Italy
Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Monteverdi and Purcell.
The most important vocal genres in Baroque music were opera and oratorio
Italian Opera
Claudio Monteverdi was the bridge composer between the Renaissance Era to the Baroque Era.
concerto, opera, sonata, cantatas, and symphony
Castrato
Baroque opera
The Man Without a Country - opera - was created in 1937.
Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Monteverdi and Purcell.
were Opera librettos were written only in Italian throughout the Baroque period.
sinfonia
The most important vocal genres in Baroque music were opera and oratorio
JS (or Johann Sebastian) Bach. He wrote several Fugues and many Chorales and Cantatas, just to name certain forms, but did not write opera.
The baroque era - from around 1600 to the death of Handel in 1759 - saw both the birth of opera as a musical form and its growth into perhaps the most enduring musical genre. It was an evolutionary period and operas written are referred to as baroque operas.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Italian Opera
Italian Opera