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Periods

• Early music
  • • Medieval music c. 500 – c. 1400
    • Early Medieval: c. 500 – c. 1000
    • High Medieval: c. 1000 – c. 1300 Hildegard of Bingen
    • Late Medieval: c. 1300 – c. 1400 Guillaume de Machaut
  • Renaissance music c. 1400 – c. 1600
    • Early Renaissance: c. 1400 – c. 1470 Guillaume Dufay
    • Middle Renaissance: c. 1470 – c. 1530 Josquin des Prez
    • Late Renaissance: c. 1530 – c. 1600 William Byrd
    • Transition to Baroque: c. 1600 Claudio Monteverdi
• Common practice
  • Baroque music c. 1600 – c. 1750
    • Early Baroque: c. 1600 – c. 1650
    • Middle Baroque: c. 1650 – c. 1700
    • Late Baroque: c. 1700 – c. 1720
    • Galant: c. 1720 – c. 1770
  • Classical music c. 1750 – c. 1820
    • Early Classical: c. 1750 – c. 1775
    • Middle Classical: c. 1775 – c. 1790
    • Late Classical: c. 1790 – c. 1820
  • Romantic music c. 1800 – c. 1910
    • Early Romantic: c. ? – c. ?
    • High Romantic: c. ? – c. ?
    • Late Romantic: c. ? – c. ?
• New music

Composers

Composers

Name	Birth	Death	Nationality	Period	Notes	Recordings	Stars
Peter Abelard	1079	1142	French	High Medieval	Various chants, a hymn, three sequences and seven laments	17
Hildegard of Bingen	1098	1179	German	High Medieval	72 works	267
Bernart de Ventadorn	c. 1130–1140	c. 1190–1200	Occitan	High Medieval	Troubadour 19 (1 fragmentary) works; 45 poems total	46
Giraut de Bornelh	c. 1140	c. 1200	Occitan	High Medieval	Troubadour Four works; 77 poems total	25
Léonin	fl. 1150s	c. 1201	French	High Medieval	Notre-Dame school (Ars antiqua)	26
Raimbaut de Vaqueiras	c. 1150–60	1207	Occitan	High Medieval	Troubadour Seven works; 35 poems total	27
Walther von der Vogelweide	c. 1170	c. 1230	German	High Medieval	Minnesanger	31
Gautier de Coincy	1177/8	1236	French	High Medieval	Trouvere Eight surviving poems with music	20
Blondel de Nesle	fl. 1180	after 1200	French	High Medieval	Trouvere	14
Neidhart von Reuental	c. 1190	after 1236	German	High Medieval	Minnesanger	8
Pérotin (Perotinus)	fl. c. 1200	after 1200	French	High Medieval	Notre-Dame school (Ars antiqua)	70
Adam de la Halle	1245–50	1285–8 or after 1306	French	High Medieval	Trouvere 78 works	58
Philippe de Vitry	1291–1361		French	Late Medieval	Ars nova 13 works at least	30
Guillaume de Machaut	c. 1300	1377	French	Late Medieval	Ars nova 143 works	214
Francesco Landini	c. 1325	1397	Italian	Late Medieval	Trecento	85
Jacopo da Bologna	fl. 1340	after 1386	Italian	Late Medieval	Trecento 34 works	32
Solage	fl. late 14th century		French	Late Medieval	Ars subtilior Ten works in the Chantilly Codex	33
Jacob Senleches	fl. 1382	after 1383	French	Late Medieval	Ars subtilior	18
Baude Cordier	before 1364	after 1397	French	Late Medieval	Ars subtilior About twelve survive.	15
Johannes Ciconia	c. 1370	1412	Franco-Flemish	Late Medieval	Trecento Ars subtilior 45 works	60
Leonel Power	c. 1370–1385	1445	English	Early Renaissance	Medieval-Renaissance Transition Old Hall Manuscript 40 known compositions. Mass movements and other Latin settings	31
Oswald von Wolkenstein	c. 1376	1445	German	Early Renaissance	Medieval-Renaissance Transition 108 works survive. Lieder	61
John Dunstaple (John Dunstable)	c. 1390	1453	English	Early Renaissance	Medieval-Renaissance Transition Contenance angloise Around 60 works survive, including Mass movements and isorhythmic motets	87
Arnold de Lantins	c. 1395-1405	c. 1432	Flemish	Early Renaissance	Mass movements, ballades, rondeaux	16
Guillaume Dufay (Guillaume Du Fay)	c. 1400	1474	French	Early Renaissance		262
Gilles Binchois (Gilles de Bins)	c. 1400	1460	Burgundian	Late Medieval/ Early Renaissance		70
John Plummer	c. 1410	c. 1483	English	Early Renaissance		12
Johannes Ockeghem	c. 1410	1497	Franco-Flemish	Early Renaissance		153
Antoine Busnois	c. 1430	1492	French	Early Renaissance		77
Walter Frye	fl. c. 1450	after 1474	English	Early Renaissance		28
Johannes Tinctoris	c. 1435	1511	Franco-Flemish	Early Renaissance		15
Johannes Martini	c. 1440	1497/98	Franco-Flemish	Early Renaissance		20
Heinrich Finck	1444/1445	1527	German	Early Renaissance		29
Alexander Agricola	1445/1446	1506	Franco-Flemish	Early Renaissance		77
Robert Wilkinson (Robert Wylkynson)	c. 1450	after 1515	English	Early Renaissance		16
Walter Lambe	c. 1450	after 1504	English	Early Renaissance	Major contributor to the Eton Choirbook.	18
Loyset Compère	c. 1450	1518	French	Middle Renaissance		62
Heinrich Isaac	c. 1450	1517	Franco-Flemish	Middle Renaissance		258
Josquin des Prez	c. 1450	1521	Franco-Flemish	Middle Renaissance		593
Jean Japart	fl. 1474	after 1481	Franco-Flemish	Middle Renaissance	Active in Italy	11
Jacob Obrecht	1457/58	1505	Franco-Flemish	Middle Renaissance		96
Jean Mouton	c. 1459	1522	French	Middle Renaissance		88
Pierre de La Rue	c. 1460	1518	Franco-Flemish	Middle Renaissance	Most famous composer of the Grande chapelle of the Habsburg court	89
Antoine Brumel	c. 1460	1512/1513	French	Middle Renaissance		87
Robert Fayrfax	1464	1521	English	Middle Renaissance		35
Pedro de Escobar	c. 1465	after 1535	Portuguese	Middle Renaissance		34
Richard Davy	c. 1465	c. 1507	English	Middle Renaissance	Major contributor to the Eton Choirbook	18
John Browne	fl. c. 1490	after 1490	English	Middle Renaissance	Major contributor to the Eton Choirbook	27
William Cornysh (William Cornish)	c. 1470	1523	English	Middle Renaissance	8 pieces in the Eton Choirbook and 13 in Henry VIII's Songbook	53
Antoine de Févin	c. 1470	1511/12	French	Middle Renaissance	Brother of Robert de Févin	37
Philippe Verdelot	c. 1475	before 1552	French	Middle Renaissance	Active in Italy	78
Clément Janequin	c. 1485	1558	French	Middle Renaissance		129
Hugh Aston	c. 1485	1558	English	Middle Renaissance		20
Robert Carver	1485	1570	Scottish	Middle Renaissance	Wrote a mass on L'Homme armé (the only known by a British composer) and a nineteen-part O bone jesu	10
John Redford	c. 1486	1547	English	Middle Renaissance	One of the main contributors to The Mulliner Book	12
John Taverner	c. 1490	1545	English	Middle Renaissance		125
Adrian Willaert	c. 1490	1562	Franco-Flemish	Middle Renaissance	founder of the Venetian School; active in Italy; influential as a teacher as well as a composer	160
Henry VIII of England (Henry Tudor)	1491	1547	English	Middle Renaissance		81
Nicolas Gombert	c. 1495	c. 1560	Franco-Flemish	Middle Renaissance	prominent contrapuntist of generation after Josquin; worked for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor	125
Costanzo Festa	c. 1495	1545	Italian	Middle Renaissance	Early composer of madrigals; member of Sistine Chapel choir	48
Cristóbal de Morales	c. 1500	1553	Spanish	Middle Renaissance		132
Thomas Tallis	c. 1505	1585	English	Late Renaissance		557
Thomas Crecquillon	c. 1505	1557	Franco-Flemish	Late Renaissance	A member of Charles V's imperial chapel	69
Christopher Tye	c. 1505	? 1572	English	Late Renaissance		106
Jacques Arcadelt	c. 1507	1568	Franco-Flemish	Late Renaissance	Most famous of the early madrigalists	115
Hans Neusiedler	1508	1563	German	Late Renaissance		45
Antonio de Cabezón	c. 1510	1566	Spanish	Late Renaissance		224
Pierre de Manchicourt	c. 1510	1564	Franco-Flemish	Late Renaissance	Active in Spain	32
Osbert Parsley	1511	1585	English	Late Renaissance	Also spelled Parsely; wrote a set of Lamentations for Holy Week	10
Claude Goudimel	c. 1514/1520	1572	French	Late Renaissance		42
John Sheppard	c. 1515	1559	English	Late Renaissance		122
Cypriano de Rore	c. 1515	1565	Franco-Flemish	Late Renaissance		141
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina	c. 1525	1594	Italian	Late Renaissance		691
Francisco Guerrero	1528	1599	Spanish	Late Renaissance		195
William Mundy	1529	1591	English	Late Renaissance	Father of John Mundy; his output includes fine examples of both the large-scale Latin votive antiphon and the short English anthem, as well as Masses and Latin psalm settings; his style is vigorous and eloquent; represented in The Mulliner Book and in the Gyffard partbooks	38
Costanzo Porta	c. 1529	1601	Italian	Late Renaissance		14
Thomas Preston	before 1540s	c. 1563	English	Late Renaissance	Composed 12 Offertory settings for keyboard, including the popular Felix namque, and an alternatim organ Mass for Easter, containing the only known sequence setting of the time; his keyboard writing is extremely virtuosic for the period	15
Claude Le Jeune	1530	1600	French	Late Renaissance		66
Orlande de Lassus	c. 1532	1594	Franco-Flemish	Late Renaissance		539
Andrea Gabrieli	1532/1533	1585	Italian	Late Renaissance	Uncle of Giovanni Gabrieli	173
Robert Parsons	c. 1535	1572	English	Late Renaissance	Latin music includes antiphons, Credo quod redemptor, Domine quis habitabit, Magnificat and Jam Christus astra; also three responds from the Office of the Dead, songs (including Pandolpho), In nomine settings for ensemble, and a galliard	110
Giaches de Wert	1535	1596	Franco-Flemish	Late Renaissance	Active in Italy	49
Filippo Azzaiolo	fl. 1557	1569	Italian	Late Renaissance		26
Robert White	1538	1574	English	Late Renaissance		61
Alessandro Striggio	c. 1540	1592	Italian	Late Renaissance	Musician to the Medici; composer of the colossal 60-voice Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno	30
Nicholas Strogers	fl. 1560	after 1575	English	Late Renaissance	Also spelled Strowger, Strowgers; three (probably four) keyboard pieces in a Christ Church, Oxford, manuscript, and a Fantasia in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (No. 89); an In nomine exists in a Bodleian manuscript	17
William Byrd	c. 1540	1623	English	Late Renaissance		1006
Clement Woodcock	1540	1590	English	Late Renaissance	Also spelled Woodcoke, Woodecock; his Browning my dear is one of several pieces of the period based on a popular tune, also known as The leaves be green	19
Anthony Holborne	c. 1545	1602	English	Late Renaissance		20
John Johnson	c. 1545	1594	English	Late Renaissance		58
Tomás Luis de Victoria	1548	1611	Spanish	Late Renaissance		463
Giulio Caccini	1551	1618	Italian	Transition Renaissance	One of the founders of opera	286
Luca Marenzio	c. 1553	1599	Italian	Transition Renaissance		122
Giovanni Gabrieli	1554/1557	1612	Italian	Transition Renaissance	Nephew of Andrea Gabrieli	453
Thomas Morley	1557/1558	1603	English	Transition Renaissance		292
Peter Philips	1560	1628	English	Transition Renaissance	Exiled to Flanders	159
Carlo Gesualdo	1560	1613	Italian	Transition Renaissance		228
John Bull	1562	1628	English	Transition Renaissance	Exiled to the Netherlands	169
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck	1562	1621	Franco-Flemish	Transition Renaissance		374
John Dowland	1563	1626	English	Transition Renaissance		821
Giles Farnaby	c. 1563	1640	English	Transition Renaissance		97
Hans Leo Hassler	1564	1612	German	Transition Renaissance		226
Claudio Monteverdi	1567	1643	Italian	Transition Renaissance		1207
Thomas Campion	1567	1620	English	Transition Renaissance	Also spelled Campian; the only English composer to experiment with musique mesurée, and the first to imitate the Florentine monodists	126
Tobias Hume	c. 1569	1645	English	Transition Renaissance	Responsible for the earliest known use of col legno in Western music	108
Michael Praetorius	c. 1571	1621	German	Transition Renaissance		726
Thomas Tomkins	1572	1656	English	Transition Renaissance		192
Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger	c. 1575	1628	English	Transition Renaissance	Illegitimate son of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder	77
Thomas Weelkes	1576	1623	English	Transition Renaissance		167
Sigismondo d'India	c. 1582	1629	Italian	Transition Renaissance		89
Orlando Gibbons	1583	1625	English	Transition Renaissance		408

Baroque

Baroque composers

Name	Birth	Death	Nationality	Period	Notes	Recordings	Stars
Johannes Hieronymous Kapsberger	1580	1651	Italian	Early Baroque		209
Gregorio Allegri	1582	1652	Italian	Early Baroque	Brother of Domenico Allegri	259
Thomas Ravenscroft	c. 1582	c. 1633	English	Early Baroque	Published a book of psalms amongst others	71
Robert Johnson	c. 1583	1633	English	Early Baroque	Active in England and Scotland	154
Girolamo Frescobaldi	1583	1643	Italian	Early Baroque		704
Heinrich Schütz	1585	1672	German	Early Baroque		530
Johann Hermann Schein	1586	1630	German	Early Baroque		160
Samuel Scheidt	1587	1654	German	Early Baroque		322
John Jenkins	1592	1678	English	Early Baroque		80
Tarquinio Merula	1595	1665	Italian	Early Baroque		259
Luigi Rossi	1597	1653	Italian	Early Baroque		110
William Lawes	1602	1645	English	Early Baroque		110
Francesco Cavalli	1602	1676		Middle Baroque		192
Giacomo Carissimi	1605	1674		Middle Baroque		153
Johann Jakob Froberger	1616	1667		Middle Baroque		232
Barbara Strozzi	1619	1677		Middle Baroque		126
Antonio Cesti	1623	1669		Middle Baroque		61
Giovanni Legrenzi	1626	1690		Middle Baroque		109
Johann Caspar Kerll	1627	1693		Middle Baroque		130
Jean-Henri d'Anglebert	1629	1691		Middle Baroque		76
Jean-Baptiste Lully	1632	1687		Middle Baroque		404
Pavel Josef Vejvanovský	c. 1633/1639	1693		Middle Baroque		45
Dieterich Buxtehude	c. 1637	1707		Middle Baroque		852
Gaspar Sanz	1640	1710		Middle Baroque		241
Marc-Antoine Charpentier	1643	1704		Middle Baroque		493
Johann Adam Reincken	1643?	1722		Middle Baroque		64
Alessandro Stradella	1643	1682		Middle Baroque		182
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber	1644	1704		Middle Baroque		375
Juan Bautista Cabanilles	1644	1712		Middle Baroque		91
Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco	1644	1728		Middle Baroque		24
John Blow	1649	1708		Middle Baroque		178
Cataldo Amodei	c. 1650	c. 1695		Middle Baroque		3
Giovanni Battista Bassani	c. 1650	1716		Middle Baroque		31
Arcangelo Corelli	1653	1713		Middle Baroque		870
Georg Muffat	1653	1704		Middle Baroque		195
Johann Pachelbel	1653	1706		Middle Baroque		927
Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer	1656	1746		Middle Baroque		81
Marin Marais	1656	1728		Middle Baroque		412
Michel-Richard de Lalande, or Delalande	1657	1726		Middle Baroque		84
Giuseppe Torelli	1658	1709		Middle Baroque		243
Henry Purcell	1659	1695		Middle Baroque		1909
André Campra	1660	1744		Middle Baroque		134
Johann Joseph Fux	1660	1741		Middle Baroque		96
Alessandro Scarlatti	1660	1725		Middle Baroque		630
Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki	c. 1665/1667	1734		Late Baroque		11
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre	1665	1729		Late Baroque		63
Antonio Lotti	c. 1667	1740		Late Baroque		189
Johann Christoph Pepusch	1667	1752		Late Baroque		30
François Couperin	1668	1733		Late Baroque		882
Alessandro Marcello	1669	1747		Late Baroque		286
Antonio Caldara	1670	1736		Late Baroque		221
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni	1671	1751		Late Baroque		722
Jeremiah Clarke	c. 1674	1707		Late Baroque		317
Antonio Vivaldi	1678	1741		Late Baroque		4374
Manuel de Zumaya	c. 1678	1755		Late Baroque		9
Jan Dismas Zelenka	1679	1745		Late Baroque		153
Georg Philipp Telemann	1681	1767		Late Baroque		1947
Christoph Graupner	1683	1760		Late Baroque		119
Johann David Heinichen	1683	1729		Late Baroque		92
Jean-Philippe Rameau	1683	1764		Late Baroque		946
Johann Sebastian Bach	1685	1750		Late Baroque		15983
George Frideric Handel	1685	1759		Late Baroque		5942
Domenico Scarlatti	1685	1757		Late Baroque		1456
Nicola Porpora	1686	1768		Late Baroque		183
Francesco Geminiani	1687	1762		Late Baroque		204
Johann Georg Pisendel	1687	1755		Late Baroque		52
Sylvius Leopold Weiss	1687	1750		Late Baroque		206
Johann Friedrich Fasch	1688	1758		Late Baroque		172
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier	1689	1755		Late Baroque		190
Leonardo Vinci	c. 1690	1730		Late Baroque		79
Giuseppe Tartini	1692	1770		Late Baroque		421
Pietro Locatelli	1695	1764		Late Baroque		266
Giuseppe Sammartini	1695	1750		Galant		129
Jean-Marie Leclair l'aîné	1697	1764		Galant		236
Johann Joachim Quantz	1697	1773		Galant		140
Johann Adolph Hasse	1699	1783		Galant		227
Jan Zach	1699	1773		Galant		16
Giovanni Battista Sammartini	1700	1775		Galant		77
Carlos Seixas	1704	1742		Galant		53
Baldassare Galuppi	1706	1785		Galant		174
Giovanni Battista Martini, or Padre Martini	1706	1784		Galant		104
Michel Corrette	1707	1795		Galant		155
Franz Benda	1709	1786		Galant		76
Thomas Arne	1710	1778		Galant		233
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach	1710	1784		Galant		228
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi	1710	1736		Galant		538
William Boyce	1711	1779		Galant		154
Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville	1711	1772		Galant		71
Frederick the Great Frederick II of Prussia	1712	1786		Galant		39
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach	1714	1788		Galant		1225
Leopold Mozart	1719	1787		Galant		223
Antonio Soler	1729	1783		Galant		226

Classical

Classical composers

Name	Birth	Death	Nationality	Period	Notes	Recordings	Stars
Johann Baptist Georg Neruda	c. 1707	c. 1780		Early Classical		33
Franz Xaver Richter	1709	1789		Early Classical		58
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach	1714	1788		Early Classical		1225
Christoph Willibald Gluck	1714	1787		Early Classical		1185
Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz	1717	1757		Early Classical		73
Leopold Mozart	1719	1787		Early Classical		223
Georg Benda, or Jiří Antonín Benda	1722	1795		Early Classical		61
Carl Friedrich Abel	1723	1787		Early Classical		104
Tommaso Traetta	1727	1779		Early Classical		24
Niccolò Piccinni	1728	1800		Early Classical		58
Giuseppe Sarti	1729	1802		Early Classical		44
Antonio Soler	1729	1783		Early Classical		226
Antonio Sacchini	1730	1786		Early Classical		15
Franz Joseph Haydn	1732	1809		Early Classical		4985
François-Joseph Gossec	1734	1829		Early Classical		116
Johann Christian Bach	1735	1782		Early Classical		434
Josef Mysliveček	1737	1781		Early Classical		96
Michael Haydn	1737	1806		Early Classical		261
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf	1739	1799		Early Classical		116
Johann Baptist Wanhal or Vanhall	1739	1813		Early Classical		136
Giovanni Paisiello	1740	1816		Early Classical		170
Luigi Boccherini	1743	1805		Early Classical		872
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges	1745	1799		Early Classical		47
Carl Stamitz	1745	1801		Early Classical		169
Leopold Kozeluch	1747	1818		Early Classical		86
Domenico Cimarosa	1749	1801		Early Classical		250
Antonio Rosetti	c. 1750	1792		Early Classical		94
Antonio Salieri	1750	1825		Early Classical		122
Muzio Clementi	1752	1832		Early Classical		278
Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli	1752	1837		Early Classical		15
Franz Anton Hoffmeister	1754	1812		Early Classical		93
Vicente Martín y Soler	1754	1806		Early Classical		33
Giovanni Battista Viotti	1755	1824		Early Classical		117
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	1756	1791		Early Classical		14011
Joseph Martin Kraus	1756	1792		Early Classical		97
Paul Wranitzky, also Pavel Vranický	1756	1808		Early Classical		33
Ignaz Pleyel	1757	1831		Early Classical		104
Franz Krommer	1759	1831		Early Classical		98
Luigi Cherubini	1760	1842		Early Classical		300
Johann Ladislaus Dussek	1760	1812		Early Classical		121
Adalbert Gyrowetz	1763	1850		Early Classical		14
Étienne Méhul	1763	1817		Early Classical		52
Ludwig van Beethoven	1770	1827		Early Classical		13189
Anton Reicha	1770	1836		Early Classical		129
Pierre Rode	1774	1830		Early Classical		23
Johann Nepomuk Hummel	1778	1837		Early Classical		443
Conradin Kreutzer	1780	1849		Early Classical		91
Ferdinand Ries	1784	1838		Early Classical		113
Louis Spohr	1784	1859		Early Classical		397
Friedrich Kuhlau	1786	1832		Early Classical		160
Carl Czerny	1791	1857		Early Classical		183
Franz Peter Schubert	1797	1828		Early Classical		8535

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