The lyrics were by Ned Washington, the music by Bronislaw Kaper and Walter Jurmann. The song was featured in the Marx Brothers film "A Night at the Opera" and sung by Allan Jones.
That's like asking "what inspired god to create the universe?". Vivaldi is the composer who inspired all others to become composers. Before Vivaldi, all music was compressed into an infinitely small...
The beginning of the classical period was in around 1750, so any composers whose music was published around this date or after aren't baroque composers. The most famous baroque composers include...