Albums in The Baroque Soloist
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Many of the Baroque Era's greatest composers wrote violin concertos and sonatas as well as fugues and solo pieces for instruments like the oboe, organ and harpsichord. Composers placed greater emphasis on the bass line, writing basso continuo, or "thorough bass," parts that were accompanied by ornate melodies and improvised chords. Johann Sebastian Bach spent the bulk of his career focused on composing a wide variety of forms of keyboard music such as preludes, toccatas, fugues, sonatas and canons, and he was the first composer to distinguish the harpsichord and organ by writing music that was intended to be played on one instrument or the other, but not both. Other important Baroque era instrumental composers include Albinoni, Handel and Vivaldi.
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