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The Széchenyi Medicinal Bath in Budapest

Neo-Baroque is a term used to describe artistic creations which display important aspects of Baroque style, but are not from the Baroque period proper, around the 17th-18th centuries. It is most frequently used to refer to music or architecture, but can also concern painting or the decorative arts.

Neo-Baroque architecture

Alferaki Palace in Taganrog, Russia (1848).

Some examples of Neo-baroque architecture:

• The Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, Japan
• The Alferaki Palace in Taganrog, Russia
• The Ashton Memorial in Lancaster, England
• The Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia
• The Bode Museum in Berlin, Germany
• The Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen, Denmark
• The Cluj-Napoca National Theatre in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• The Ortaköy Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey
• The Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul, Turkey
• The Palais Garnier (also known as the Paris Opera) in Paris, France
• The Semper Oper in Dresden, Germany
• The Széchenyi Medicinal Bath in Budapest, Hungary
• The former royal palace, today the National Art Gallery of Bulgaria in Sofia, Bulgaria
• Wenckheim Palace, Budapest, Hungary
• Park Club, Budapest, Hungary

There are also number of post-modern buildings in a style that might be called "Baroque" – for example The Dancing House in Prague by Vlado Milunić and Frank Gehry, who have described it as "new Baroque"^[1].

Neo-baroque architects

• Ferdinand Fellner (1847-1917) and Hermann Helmer (1849-1919)
• Arthur Meinig (1853-1904)

Neo-baroque music

See also: Neoclassicism in music

The foyer of the Paris Opera, built by Charles Garnier

Some examples of composers living after the Baroque period who use or have used Baroque idioms or forms (such as extensive contrapuntal passages or fugues) in their works:

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), German
• Hendrik Bouman (1951–), Dutch
• Paul Hindemith (1895–1963), German
• Elodie Lauten (1950–), French born, later a U.S. citizen
• Witold Lutosławski (1913–1994), Polish
• Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), German
• Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), German
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), Austrian
• Giorgio Pacchioni (1947–), Italian
• Max Reger (1873–1916), German
• Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936), Italian
• Peter Schickele (1935–), U.S., under the pseudonym P. D. Q. Bach (1807-1742), by way of parody
• Hugo Distler German
• Johanna Senfter (1879-1961), German
• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), Russian
• Michael Starke (composer) (1955–), U.S.
• Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), Russian

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