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Baroque Concerto

The concerto

Concertos have three movements – fast, slow, fast.

The concerto in the Baroque period (roughly 1600-1750)

Baroque composers who wrote concertos include Vivaldi, Bach and Handel. Vivaldi wrote over 500 concertos and half of them were for violin.

There were two types of Baroque concerto - the concerto grosso and the solo concerto.

The Baroque concerto grosso:

is written for a group of solo instruments (the concertino) and for a larger ensemble (the ripieno)

has well-known examples like Bach’s six Brandenburg Concerto

The Baroque solo concerto:

is written for one solo instrument and the orchestra

often has brilliant and technically demanding passages for the soloist to play