Baroque Music Era in Germany

The Baroque music, which was the first music to use tonality in the recent sense, is also known for its ornamentation and musicians use of counterpoint. It coined in Northern Italy at the end of the 16^th century, and the pattern came quickly to German, and was done of the most active points of the early Baroque music. Early German Baroque composers like Johann Schein, Samuel Scheidt, Herinrich Schutz, and Michael Praetorius. The culmination of the Baroque period was undoubtedly in the work of Johann Sebastian Bach in the first half of the 18^th century. Bach wrote several Baroque works, which include preludes, concertos, fugues, and cantatas for harpsichord, violin and wind, orchestral suits, the Brandendurg Concertos, St. Mathew Passion, St. John Passion and the Christmas Oratorio. Bach’s recent include George Friedrich Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann, the latter best known for the oratorio Messiah.

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