Favorite Early Keyboard Composer

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

A fun disc is Andrew Rangell's "A Bridge to Bach." This features 4 Sweelinck hits, plus work of other composers of the time, all played unHIPly on a grand piano.

[71 dB]

Since Weckmann isn´t but three years younger than Froberger he must be early too. And Kerll is only eleven years younger than Froberger. But the word "early" is not well defined in this poll. Some think that early is everything before 1750. F.i. Donington in his "The Interpretation of Early Music".

Well, Froberger isn't that "early" either. He is one of the last early ones or one of the first middle ones. 

Anyway, maybe I think of this too much in terms of early, middle and late baroque, when we are talking about keyboard music, not baroque. Many of these composers are in fact from renaissance period. So, in fact early keyboard music may mean everything before 1750 as you say. So, we can include J. S. Bach, Buxtehude, D. Scarlatti, Handel,...

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

I was thinking approximately of 1650 as a cut-off date. But I didn't want to define it too precisely.