 Text search
 Related images
 HistoryWorld
 Link
 Map
Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms. |
|  |
| | | | | | | |
|
| 1698 |
| | | A maker of harpsichords in Florence, Bartolomeo Cristofori, develops the piano ('soft') and forte ('loud') feature which leads to the piano | |
| |
|
| 1709 |
| | | In a friendly keyboard contest in Rome between Handel and Domenico Scarlatti, the result is a draw – Handel being the winner on the organ and Scarlatti on the harpsichord | |
| |
|
| 1711 |
| | | Handel's success in London with his opera Rinaldo prompts him to settle in Britain | |
| |
|
| 1712 |
| | | The violinist Archangelo Corelli composes his Christmas Concerto, the best known of his influential group of twelve Concerti Grossi | |
| |
|
| c. 1720 |
| | | The symphony begins to develop as a musical form, deriving from the overtures of operas | |
| |
|
| c. 1720 |
| | | Like the symphony, the string quartet develops during the eighteenth century, moving from simple beginnings to great complexity | |
| |
|
| 1720 |
| | | Johann Sebastian Bach compiles the Little Keyboard Book a set of pieces to teach his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach | |
| |
|
| 1721 |
| | | Johann Sebastian Bach writes the six Brandenburg Concertos for his employer at the court of Köthen | |
| |
|
| 1722 |
| | | J.S. Bach publishes The Well-Tempered Clavier, a collection of 24 Preludes and Fugues | |
| |
|
| 1725 |
| | | Vivaldi publishes the set of violin concertos known as The Four Seasons | |
| |
|
| | | | | |
| |