A Baroque orchestra is an ensemble for mixed instruments that existed during the Baroque era of Western Classical music , commonly identified as 1600–1750. Baroque orchestras are typically much smaller, in terms of the number of performers, than their Romantic -era counterparts. Baroque orchestras originated in France where Jean-Baptiste Lully added the newly re-designed hautbois (oboe) and transverse flutes to his orchestra, Les Vingt-quatre Violons du Roi ("The Twenty-Four Violins of the King"). As well as violins and woodwinds, baroque orchestras often contained basso continuo instruments such as the theorbo , the lute , the harpsichord and the pipe organ .
4-507: Freiburger Barockorchester (Freiburg Baroque Orchestra) is a German Baroque orchestra founded in 1987, with the mission statement: "to enliven the world of Baroque music with new sounds". The orchestra is based in Freiburg im Breisgau . In addition to Baroque music, it has performed works by composers such as Beethoven , Schubert and Weber , and contemporary music. The orchestra gave its first concert in 1987 and began touring abroad with
8-454: A performance in Amsterdam in 1989. The first tour to America in 1995. Violinists Gottfried von der Goltz and Petra Müllejans from among their own numbers are the regular musical directors. The orchestra performs a quarter of its concerts with guest conductors such as Ivor Bolton , René Jacobs , Philippe Herreweghe , Pablo Heras-Casado and Trevor Pinnock . The Freiburger Barockorchester
12-676: The smaller variety were Bach's orchestras, for example in Koethen where he had access to an ensemble of up to 18 players. Examples of large scale Baroque orchestras would include Corelli's orchestra in Rome which ranged between 35 and 80 players for day-to-day performances, being enlarged to 150 players for special occasions. The term Baroque orchestra is commonly used today to refer to chamber orchestras giving historically informed performances of baroque or classical music on period Baroque instruments or replica instruments. The period-instrument revival of
16-618: Was awarded the 2012 Echo Klassik Awards as "Ensemble of the Year (Historical Instruments)". Baroque orchestra In the Baroque period, the size of an orchestra was not standardised. There were large differences in size, instrumentation and playing styles—and therefore in orchestral soundscapes and palettes—between the various European regions. The 'Baroque orchestra' ranged from smaller orchestras (or ensembles) with one player per part, to larger scale orchestras with many players per part. Examples of
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