A nineteenth century French art style and movement that originated as a reaction to the Baroque.

Alexandrines are common in the German literature of the Baroque period and in French poetry of the early modern and modern periods.

In 1973, French dance historian Francine Lancelot ( 1929 – 2003 ) began her formal studies in ethnomusicology which later lead her to researching French traditional dance forms and eventually Renaissance and Baroque dances.

* 1657 – Michel Richard Delalande, French Baroque composer and organist ( d. 1726 )

Jules Hardouin Mansart became France's most important architect of the period, bringing the pinnacle of French Baroque architecture.

Although incorporating Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, Purcell's legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music.

Unlike in the past there are many types of lutes encountered today: 5-course medieval lutes, renaissance lutes of 6 to 10 courses in many pitches for solo and ensemble performance of Renaissance works, the archlute of Baroque works, 11-course lutes in d-minor tuning for 17th century French, German and Czech music, 13 / 14-course d-minor tuned German Baroque Lutes for later High Baroque and Classical music, theorbo for basso continuo parts in Baroque ensembles, gallichons / mandoras, bandoras, orpharions and others.

The French Baroque school is exemplified by composers such as Ennemond Gaultier ( 1575 – 1651 ), Denis Gaultier ( 1597 / 1603 – 1672 ), François Dufaut ( before 1604 – before 1672 ) and many others.

* 1687 – Jean Baptiste Senaillé, French born Baroque composer and violin virtuoso ( d. 1730 )

* 1599 – Étienne Moulinié, French Baroque composer ( d. 1676 )

The 17th century falls into the Early Modern period of Europe and in that continent was characterized by the Dutch Golden Age, the Baroque cultural movement, the French Grand Siècle dominated by Louis XIV, the Scientific Revolution, and The General Crisis.

It developed in 16th century England, and was quickly adopted on the Continent where it eventually became the final movement of the mature Baroque dance suite ( the French gigue ; Italian and Spanish giga ).

Its distinctive rhythmic profile and function thus led to the French overture style as found in the works of late Baroque composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach.

There is a cantata by the French Baroque composer André Campra telling the story of Arion

The Brooks ' permanent collection includes works from the Italian Renaissance and Baroque eras to British, French Impressionists, and 20th-century artists.

In the Baroque period the design approaches developed in French formal gardens such as Versailles were extended into urban development and redevelopment.

Built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, 1675-1683 for the duc de Chevreuse, Colbert's son-in-law, is a French Baroque château of manageable size.

Inspired by St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, the original for all Baroque domes, it is one of the triumphs of French Baroque architecture.

The variations found just after each canon are genre pieces of various types, among them three Baroque dances ( 4, 7, 19 ); a fughetta ( 10 ); a French overture ( 16 ); and two ornate arias for the right hand ( 13, 25 ).

Gershwin collaborated on the original program notes with the critic and composer Deems Taylor, noting that: " My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.

* 1672 – André Cardinal Destouches, French composer ( d. 1749 )

* 1693 – Laurent Belissen, French composer ( d. 1762 )

* 1857 – Cécile Chaminade, French pianist and composer ( d. 1944 )

* 1905 – André Jolivet, French composer ( d. 1974 )

* 1683 – Jean-Joseph Mouret, French composer ( d. 1738 )

* 1910 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer ( d. 1995 )

* 1890 – Jacques Ibert, French composer ( d. 1962 )

* 1927 – Martial Solal, French pianist and composer

* 1961 – Alexandre Desplat, French composer

* 1666 – Jean-Féry Rebel, French composer and violinist ( d. 1747 )

* 1785 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer ( d. 1858 )

* 1892 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer ( d. 1983 )

As the political situation threatened and eventually overwhelmed Austria, which was repeatedly crushed by French political forces, Salieri's first and most important biographer Mosel described the emotional effect that this political, social, and cultural upheaval had on the composer.

* 1992 – Olivier Messiaen, French composer ( b. 1908 )

* 1954 – François Valéry, French singer-songwriter and composer

* 1874 – Vincent Scotto, French composer ( d. 1952 )

Her father, Joaquín Nin, was a Cuban pianist and composer, when he met her mother Rosa Culmell, who was a classically trained singer in Cuba of French and Danish descent.

From 1907 he also began to be influenced by the French composer Claude Debussy, whose compositions Kodály had brought back from Paris.

* 1724 – Claude Balbastre, French composer, organist and harpsichordist ( d. 1799 )

* 1775 – François-Adrien Boïeldieu, French composer ( d. 1834 )

* 1931 – Vincent d ' Indy, French composer ( b. 1851 )

* 1803 – Hector Berlioz, French composer ( d. 1869 )

* 1837 – Émile Waldteufel, French composer ( d. 1915 )