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John Dowland
129,866 listeners
John Dowland (1563–1626) was an English, possibly Irish-born, composer, singer, and lutenist.
Very little is known of Dowland's early life, but it is…
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
90,193 listeners
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (b. 3 February 1525 – 2 February 1526; d. 2 February 1594) was an Italian Renaissance composer and the most…
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William Byrd
86,141 listeners
William Byrd (1540 or late 1539 –1623) was one of the most celebrated English composers in the Renaissance.
He lived until well into the…
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Thomas Tallis
71,257 listeners
Thomas Tallis (c 1505 – 23 November 1585) was an English composer. Tallis flourished as a church musician during the often stormy sixteenth…
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Carlo Gesualdo
56,446 listeners
Carlo Gesualdo, known as Gesualdo da Venosa (?8 March 1560 – 8 September 1613), Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian composer,…
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Josquin des Prez
45,091 listeners
Josquin des Prez (French pronunciation: ; c. 1450/1455 – 27 August 1521), often referred to simply as Josquin, was a Franco-Flemish composer of…
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Michael Praetorius
69,550 listeners
Michael Praetorius (probably 15th February 1571–15th February 1621) was a German composer, organist, and writer on music. He was one of the most…
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Tomás Luis de Victoria
38,950 listeners
Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548 – August 20, 1611) was a Spanish composer of the late Renaissance. He was the most famous composer of the 16th…
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Guillaume Dufay
50,218 listeners
Guillaume Dufay (most probably 1397 - 1474) was an early renaissance composer, and the first of many polyphonic masters from the Low Countries…
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Orlande de Lassus
39,445 listeners
Orlande de Lassus (also Orlandus Lassus, Orlando di Lasso, Roland de Lassus, or Roland Delattre (1532 (possibly 1530) – 14 June 1594) was one of…
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Johannes Ockeghem
32,817 listeners
Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1410, Saint-Ghislain, Belgium – 6 February 1497, Tours, France) was the leading composer of the second generation of the…
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Giovanni Gabrieli
40,364 listeners
Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554/1557–1612) was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of his time, and represents…
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Orlando Gibbons
37,098 listeners
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), English composer and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean periods, a leading composer in the England of his…
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Francesco da Milano
17,338 listeners
Francesco Canova da Milano (18 August 1497 – 2 January 1543) was a virtuoso Italian lutenist and composer of the Renaissance. Born in Monza, near…
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Robert White
23,237 listeners
English composer, b. about 1530; d. Nov., 1574; was educated by his father, and graduated Mus. D., at Cambridge University, 13 Dec., 1560. In March,…
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John Taverner
19,545 listeners
John Taverner (c. 1490–1545) is regarded as the most important English composer of his day. He was also an organist.
Taverner was the first…
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Heinrich Isaac
19,936 listeners
Heinrich Isaac (also Henricus, Arrigo d'Ugo, and Arrigo il Tedesco) (around 1450 – 26 March 1517) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance.…
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Thomas Weelkes
21,516 listeners
Thomas Weelkes (1576–1623) was an English composer and organist of the Renaissance period. He became organist of Winchester College in 1598,…
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Capella De Ministrers
6,944 listeners
Capella de Ministrers is a group created in 1987 in Valencia by its director, the Valencian musicologist Carles Magraner (viola da gamba). Capella de…
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Diego Ortiz
11,565 listeners
Diego Ortiz (c.1510–1570) was a Spanish composer and musicologist, in service to the Spanish viceroy in Naples (Pedro de Urries) and later to Philip…