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Pages in category "Composers for harpsichord" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Musicians who play the harpsichord are known as harpsichordists. This list includes post 19th-century harpsichordists. This list includes post 19th-century harpsichordists. Notable earlier harpsichordists mostly appear on the list of Baroque composers .
The top line shows composers from each era for orientation. All of these composers, except Schubert and Brahms in the nineteenth century, composed for the harpsichord. At the bottom of the chart are listed events that affect the harpsichord in some way, or give historical context.
Solo harpsichord compositions included dance suites, fantasias, and fugues. Among the most famous composers who wrote for the harpsichord were the members of English virginal school of the late Renaissance, notably William Byrd (c. 1540–1623).
The New Grove musical dictionary summarizes the earliest historical traces of the harpsichord: "The earliest known reference to a harpsichord dates from 1397, when a jurist in Padua wrote that a certain Hermann Poll claimed to have invented an instrument called the 'clavicembalum'; [1] and the earliest known representation of a harpsichord is a sculpture (see below) in an altarpiece of 1425 ...
Many baroque composers played the harpsichord, including Johann Sebastian Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, George Frideric Handel, François Couperin and Jean-Philippe Rameau.At this time, it was common for such musicians also to play the organ, and all keyboard instruments, and to direct orchestral music while playing continuo on the instrument.
Regarded as one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century, [1] he replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French composer of his time for the harpsichord, alongside François Couperin. [2] Little is known about Rameau's early years.
This article lists French composers who wrote for the harpsichord during the 17th and 18th centuries. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .