Baroque refers to styles of theater, literature, architecture, and especially music. It developed

from the Renaissance styles of France and Italy, making its first appearance in Rome around

1600. The style was highly favored by the Catholic Church after its revival during the Counter

Reformation. Because of its emphasis on the emotional, realistic, and dramatic, the Catholic

Church saw the style as ideal for the propagation of the faith.

At the end of the Thirty Years War, when much of Austria, Ge

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