Baroque

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Across
  1. 2. most of his music is lost but some was discovered in the 1900s
  2. 4. one of the most influential composers in french music
  3. 6. Italian virtuoso keyboard player
  4. 9. aka Zazzerino
  5. 11. french composer and music theorist
  6. 12. his father was a well-known composer
  7. 15. studied with William Byrd
  8. 17. famous composer of flute music
  9. 19. dutch composer and organist
  10. 21. wrote more music than Bach or Mozart
  11. 22. claimed to see the face of God after completing the Messiah
  12. 23. wrote the Four Seasons and was nicknamed the red haired priest
Down
  1. 1. wrote his first piece at age 15
  2. 2. the musical time period 1600-1750
  3. 3. celebrated master of the early Baroque
  4. 5. wrote the Art of Playing on the Violin
  5. 7. came from a musical family and when he died the Baroque time period died with him
  6. 8. died from a rather unfortunate conducting accident
  7. 10. venetian composer
  8. 13. lost his job to another composer
  9. 14. his music was key in the development of both the sonata and the concerto
  10. 16. regarded as the most important German composer before Bach
  11. 18. he gave us the ground bass, or short melodic phrase repeated over and over again
  12. 20. very famous canon in D, possible plagiarism of his music by a very famous composer