Abstract. The article is devoted to the pedagogical analysis of the aesthetic foundations of the Baroque culture and identification of the most significant features of the musical art of this era. In the universal picture of the world created by Baroque thinkers, who tended to a comprehensive understanding of being, the main role is assigned to man, or rather, to the problem of human self-knowledge. The created hierarchy of moral values distinguishes between the “high” and “low”, “earthly” and “heavenly” in a person, directs a person to the path of conscious self-control and reasonable self-restraint. In this regard, at the present stage of cultural devel opment, it is necessary to search for the embodiment of the immanent features of the poetics of Baroque compositions from the position of deep knowledge of all levels of their content and symbolism. In modern musical performance, the problems of interpreting Baroque music arise with renewed vigor. In professional training of modern performing musicians, mastering the works of the Baroque style and understanding its aesthetics is an important stage in the formation