Albinoni |
Bach |
Biber |
Blow |
Buxtehude |
Caccini
Carissimi | Chambonnières | Charpentier | Corelli | Couperin | Frescobaldi
Froberger | Geminiani | Gluck | Händel | Lully | Metastasio
Monteverdi | Pachelbel | Pepusch | Pergolesi | Peri | Purcell
Rameau | Sammartini | Scarlatti | Scheidt | Schein | Schütz
Stradella | Tartini | Telemann | Torelli | Vivaldi | Zachau
Carissimi | Chambonnières | Charpentier | Corelli | Couperin | Frescobaldi
Froberger | Geminiani | Gluck | Händel | Lully | Metastasio
Monteverdi | Pachelbel | Pepusch | Pergolesi | Peri | Purcell
Rameau | Sammartini | Scarlatti | Scheidt | Schein | Schütz
Stradella | Tartini | Telemann | Torelli | Vivaldi | Zachau
John Blow
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- (b Newark Nottinghamshire 1649, d Westminster 1708)
English composer and organist. One of the first choirboys of Chapel Royal after Restoration in 1660. Organist, Westminster Abbey, 1668-1679, until his pupil Purcell succeeded him, 1695-1798. Also Master of Choristers, St. Paul's Cathedral, 1687-1703. Wrote over 100 anthems, 13 services, many secular songs, and the masque Venus and Adonis (c. 1682). Bliss composed Meditations on a Theme by John Blow.