The Baroque style was popular in Germany, Italy, and France from 1600 to around 1750.
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, Germany, and Bohemia lay in.
ruins, the Baroque style became accepted for the rebuilding of religious, civil, and domestic.
structures. At first the architects came from Italy, but soon native architects came to dominate.
the field. The best known were Johann Berhard Fischer von Erlach, Balthasar Neumann and.
Dominik Zimmermann, whose work may still be seen in Austria and Southern Germany. In.
architecture new emphasis was placed on thick and heavy pillars and columns, on domes, on.
layered ornament, and the perception of movement. Examples of baroque architecture include:.
the Chateau at Versailles, St. Paul's Cathedral, the Karlskirche, etc. .
In music the Italians also dominated the field with composers like Corelli, known for his.
concerti grossi, Monteverdi, who wrote many operas, Scarlatti, and Vivaldi, the composer of.
many sacred works for the Catholic Church; but the Germans quickly assimilated the style with.
Bach, and Pachelbel becoming prominent in Germany and Handel becoming popular in both.
Germany and England, while Couperin was a French Baroque composer. A common element of.
baroque music is counterpoint, the writing of separate melodies played against each other by.
different groups of instruments in the same orchestra, and the use of ornamentation. .
In literature the Baroque style is characterized by extravagance in imagination, and.
