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Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period.
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Earliest surviving opera
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Baroque
Artistic style in Europe and colonies, c. 1600–1750
The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s. It followed Renaissance art and Mannerism and preceded the Rococo and Neoclassical styles. It was encouraged by…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)