The 17th-century classical music greatest works
The ones you know or you must know.
Other renowned works
1735 - Jesu, meine Freude Johann Sebastian Bach
1692 - Oedipus Henry Purcell
1692 - Hail, bright Cecilia! Henry Purcell
1674 - Alceste Jean-Baptiste Lully
1669 - Monsieur de Pourceaugnac Jean-Baptiste Lully
1638 - Hor che'l ciel e la terra e'l vento tace Claudio Monteverdi
1636 - Musikalische Exequien Heinrich Schütz
1608 - L’Arianna Claudio Monteverdi
1604 - Lachrimae or Seaven Teares John Dowland
1600 - Flow, my tears, fall from your springs John Dowland
This selection of works is not the result of personal preferences or artistic opinion. Selected works come from an exclusive data analysis method developed by soclassiq.
The dating of the works can be precise or sometimes approximate. It may correspond to the premiere date or publication year or completion of the composition (that can be several years after its first public execution).
1600 .. 1700 : the essential composers
1685-1750 Johann Sebastian Bach °
1685-1759 George Frideric Handel °
1678-1741 Antonio Vivaldi °
1681-1767 Georg Philipp Telemann
1685-1757 Domenico Scarlatti
1653-1713 Arcangelo Corelli °
1567-1643 Claudio Monteverdi °
1548-1611 Tomás Luis de Victoria
1637-1707 Dietrich Buxtehude
1585-1672 Heinrich Schütz
1660-1725 Alessandro Scarlatti
1668-1733 François Couperin °
° : Masterpieces listed
On stage or recorded, listen these essential works
Meet the greatest works of classical music
Currently, 25000+ works are listed for a small selection of 101 composers among thousands listed here. Many composers are missing of which some are essential: J. Rodriguo, C. Franck, H. Gorecki, C. Nielsen, J.Corigliano, P. Hindemith, C. Ives, A. Webern ... New catalogues will be processed later to complete this experience of the discovery of the classical music masterpieces. Thus this selection of works will be updated.
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The purpose of these pages is to point out few relevant works only among tens of thousands and to provide some chronological references.