18th Century Music has been launched to be an interactive music resource on the web. We invite contributions from academics and students, performers and audiences. Start a debate in one of our forums, get your work published electronically, you can even get a free web-based email address here!

In its present form, this site represents a combination of information found in Craig Bell's (CB), the Bärenreiter Händel-Handbuch (HH) and the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (NG). It also contains information about the various more or less complete editions of Handel's music: The Arnold edition (possibly the first 'complete' edition of any composer's works ever made), Chrysander's edition, the Deutchen Händelgesellschaft (HG); and the new Hallische Händel-Ausgabe (HHA).

A fascinating and instructive lute site

Index by composer of the recorded repertoire of Andreas Scholl, countertenor

Art's Delight is a Massachusetts based duo that performs folk and popular music of the 18th century at historic sites and special events - Bobbie Wayne: Celtic Harp, Lap Dulcimer and Voice, Dan Mozell: Guitar, Mandolin and Voice.

A New Site for Bach Cantatas Recordings Review and Mailing List Archive.
This site is compiled from various postings about Bach Cantatas, especially recordings of them, which have been sent to the "Bach Cantatas Mailing List" (and some from other mailing lists) and may be considered as the web archive for that list. 57 cantatas are already on this site, and it is updated regularly.

Baroque ensemble la Suave Melodia performs repertoire from early English fantasy suites to the demanding soloistic works of Rameau's Pieces de Clavecin en Concerts. la Suave Melodia brings together violinist, Rachael Beesley, Cassandra Luckhardt on viola da gamba, Regina Albanez on theorbo and baroque guitar, and guest harpsichordist Pieter Dirksen.

The newest addition to the web-ring - a general site dedicated to Baroque Music with a particular bias towards the UK. add articles and your own editions and transcriptions... browse for information and resources...

Catalog of music by Bach and the baroque period available on CD through the internet. No membership obligations. $8.95 per CD plus post and packing.

A society whose principal aim is to provide encouragement and support for historically informed performance of early music in Cambridge (UK).

The commercial centre of the Cantata Web. Browse or purchase through over 200 newly worked editions of music from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Linking all cantata sites together.

The world's favourite classical music subscription offering online listening, downloads, custom CDs, and a huge resource of entertaining information to expand your classical music knowledge.

Mid Wales-based Concerto Gallese Baroque Orchestra & Soloists is the Principality's only professional period instrument ensemble. Based in the market town of Brecon, many of its performances take place in the town's beautiful cathedral. The ensemble had its London debut in the Wigmore Hall in October 2003.

Diversimode is a baroque chamber ensemble, based in the UK, consisting of soprano, trumpet and continuo. Please have a look at our website for more information.

List of publications: Saxon musical history

A dynamic vocal ensemble that has rapidly established itself at the forefront of professional singing in Britain. Its aim is to provide not only the Scottish community with a vocal group of outstanding quality, but also Scotland with an international touring group capable of world-class performances.

Sibling site to Baroque Cantata. We present vocal music and its composers for the period c.a.1590 - 1680 AD with emphasis on the Italian repertoire.

Information and services about early music and historical performance all over the world.

Edizione Gallese offers scholarly editions of 17th & 18th century vocal and instrumental music in clear and resonably priced performing editions. The catalogue includes all the surviving music for instrumental ensemble by Alessandro Scarlatti, together with an ongoing series of volumes containing the complete works of Francesco Scarlatti (1666-c.1741). The site also contains a link to Concerto Gallese, a professional period instrument orchestra based in Mid Wales.

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The life, compositions, and times of the great Baroque composer, George Frideric Handel.

All information about early and baroque music: News, new releases, festivals, concerts, performers, associations, masterclass, competitions, luthiers, printed music

Handel House Museum was home to George Frideric Handel from 1723 until his death in 1759. The House celebrates Handel's life and times through live baroque music, restored Georgian interiors, 18th century fine art and furniture and special music events.

Website on the Austrian composer Hans Rott (1858 - 1884) who influenced Gustav Mahler's music. The website will grow very soon and will then be available in an English translation.

Catalogazione di qualsiasi fonte bibliografica riferibile direttamente o indirettamente a J.S. Bach, conservata nelle biblioteche italiane

Complete discography of the famous French composer, Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764). As this site is built on a database, you can find all the records about a specific work or all the records a performer has made. There are now about 250 records and 500 performers.

Traditional hand maker, repairer and dealer in stringed instruments.

3,000+ free MIDI files by classical composers, free MP3 and WMA (coming soon), fugue hystory and analyses, over 5,000 listed fugues, a large bio for Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven, complete bibliographies and more.

l'ensemble fondata da Cosimo Prontera nel 1997, è formata da musicisti specializzati nell'esecuzione del repertorio musicale dei secoli XVII, XVIII, si é costituita con l¹intento di rieseguire, in un rigoroso rispetto della prassi esecutiva barocca, la musica, dalla straordinaria qualità, di quei compositori che dalle Puglie partirono alla volta di Napoli, capitale di un regno non solo economico e politico ma culturale.

Baroque recorder player and Traditional fiddler Laura Cannell. Will soon be starting MMus and studying performance technique, articles and discussions will be on the website soon.

This site is dedicated to Leonardo Leo's music and teaching and to the preparation and publication of new editions of his music. Join the discussion, browse through our music selection, or simply read more about the composer of works like the 8 part Miserere and some of the most beautiful cantate spirituale ever written.

A site devoted to the lute song repertoire, as well as its successors.

After more than ten years of performing together at hundreds of events, we have the experience to create just the right musical ambience to suit your needs, whether you are planning a wedding ceremony, a private reception or a corporate function.

Come hear repertoire from the 16th through the 19th centuries in Manhattan's oldest house. Our concerts offer the special chance to enjoy intimate afternoons of chamber music performed by early music specialists in Morris-Jumel Mansion's charming octagonal drawing room. Artists include Lucas Harris, lute; Carlene Stober, baroque cello/gamba; Jessica Gould, soprano; Rebecca Pechefsky, harpsichord; Jeffrey Dooley, countertenor; Andrew Bolotowsky, traverso; Greg Bynum, recorder; David Bakamjian, baroque cello; Pasquale Bianculli, classical guitar, and Kathy McDonald, flute.

The database of sheet music

Atlanta's leading vocal-instrumental early music ensemble, on period instruments.

Rare vocal scores from: Caccini, Cherubini, Cimarosa, Da Capua, Donizetti, Frazzi, Orlandini, Pergolesi, Peri, Raimondi, Rossini, Sacchini, Salieri, Spontini, Traetta, etc..

Web Page of Predrag Gosta, a young and accomplished conductor, expert for music of Baroque on period instruments.

Music resource for UK festivals, concert venues and performers.

Provides links to articles, lists, catalogues and databases concerning all aspects of the recorder worldwide. It is an ideal springboard for players, students, teachers and researchers alike.

Recording Tips is a free email newsletter all about recording. Tips from top professionals on how to get the most out of your recording equipment. What to do and what NOT to do in a recording studio! Pearls of wisdom you simply can't do without!

Australia's premiere supplier of Mediaeval, Renaissance, Baroque & Classical sheet music and facsimiles, plus strings for early instruments. Saraband Music also publishes early music and books. Publishes some of Rosalind Halton's editions.

Group dedicated to the lovers of the Belcanto and to Simone Bartolini a wonderful Italian sopranist.

Sonnerie is one of the foremost and most respected period instrument ensembles in the world. Founded by Monica Huggett in 1982 and based in London, the group has been acclaimed for its performances from Sydney to Paris, and from Helsinki to Vancouver, as well as its numerous concerts at London's prestigious Wigmore Hall. Sonnerie's core group consists of four musicians: Monica Huggett, violin, Emilia Benjamin, violin, viola da gamba and viola, Joe Crouch, cello and viola da gamba, and Matthew Halls on the keyboards. These four form the basis of the larger chamber ensemble while also functioning as a flexible smaller unit, performing trio sonatas, quartets and the like.

Bowed and plucked early instruments maker. Restorer and expert on historical instruments.

Small chamber orchestra dedicated to re-enacting classic works from the baroque period using original instruments, costumes and by candlelight.

This page is dedicated to the recently (about 1998) re-discovered German Baroque composer Roemhildt (1684-1757). It is a research project providing material (complete texts of the cantatas etc) for joint "internet-based" team-work, open to the public.

Aims to showcase the life and works of the German Baroque composer Johann Adolph Hasse - Il Sassone - (1699 - 1783), an opera composer of reknown and student of Porpora and Alessandro Scarlatti.

The Historic Silbermann Organ (1714) in Freiberg Cathedral, Saxony - description, photos, full specification, note on the builder, Gottfried Silbermann (1683-1753).

Information and discography on modern singers reviving the lost art of the castrati. Bibliography for castrati literature. Biographies for current and past adult male sopranos.

The Porpora Project has been established in order to display and support the investigations into the life and music of Nicola Porpora by performer and musicologist James Sanderson.
Through his fascination with the vocal music of this much-neglected composer and singing teacher, Sanderson intends to create an accurate portrayal of the depth and breadth of Porpora's work and the effect it had on music-making in the 18th century.

This website exists to share the music of Alessandro Scarlatti and his contemporaries through editions, recordings, and discussion. It is based largely on the research of Rosalind Halton, Kate Eckersley, and James Sanderson, all of whom are performer/researchers dedicated to turning manuscripts of long forgotten music into experiences of music and poetry interwoven.

This site is specially dedicated to the voice and art of the old-Castrati and the Baroque Opera together with its exponents of the past and the present.

The Traetta website project seeks to honour and perpetuate the memory of the composer Tommaso Traetta and to promote knowledge and enjoyment of his music and his contribution to Italian and international cultural life by collecting, exhibiting and interpreting texts and articles related to his life and his works.

WLSCM is a service offered by the Society of Seventeenth-Century Music to its members and to the musical community at large. It presents new editions of seventeenth-century compositions that have remained unpublished or that are not available commercially. Access is free to the general public provided the Conditions for Users are observed.