Bach, Handel, and Scarlatti Born
1685
Three composers who would define high Baroque music were all born within weeks of each other in different parts of Europe: Johann Sebastian Bach in Eisenach, George Frideric Handel in Halle, and Domenico Scarlatti in Naples. Music history does not often cluster its masters so obligingly, and the coincidence would produce a generation of genius that reshaped Western music entirely.
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Also in 1685 (4 other events on record)
- Revocation of Edict of Nantes · Europe · Religion
- James II Takes the English Throne · Europe · Politics
- Huguenots Flee to Brandenburg · Europe · Politics
- Monmouth Rebellion · Europe · War
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.