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Baroque music

Baroque music is a classical music or music of Europe.

Also recorded as Baroque period · music of the Baroque · Baroque era · baroque

Baroque music

Johann Sebastian Bach (aged 61) in a portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann, second version of his 1746 canvas. Bach is holding a copy of the six-part canon BWV 1076.

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classical music · music of Europe
Period
1600

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