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"Traditions and styles?" Sometimes writers dwell so much on "style" they fail to say much about music. Maybe the writer is not very familiar with Dowland, Francesco da Milano, Corelli, Gabrielli, etc. It's OK to limit the list to "late baroque" (starting when?) and later, but the above comment is questionable.
Other than this, it's an interesting article.
Kollman's "Sun of Composers" 1799 (Beethoven was not that famous yet).
