Its chief Italian exponents were Giacomo Carissimi and Alessandro Scarlatti.In Germany, under the leadership of Heinrich Sch??tz, Georg Philipp Telemann, Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann Sebastian Bach, and other composers, the cantata da chiesa developed into a far more elaborate form than its Italian model.After the middle of the 18th century, the importance of the cantata music as an independent genr