The Christmas Concerto, concerto grosso op.6,8, represents the beginnings of the concerto form. Corelli’s concerto grossi are essentially an extension of his celebrated trio sonatas,

Hans Leo Hassler was a German composer who is regarded as the finest that Germany produced in the late 16th century.

The history of instrumental music and keyboard music in the baroque period share a similar trajectory whilst retaining distinctive differences.

It is a wonder that the music of Hugo Wolf is seldom performed in comparison to the lied composed by Schubert and Schumann. Wolf expanded upon the development of the lied form as he found it and brought to it a unity between music and