Marin Mersenne

Marin Mersenne

male, deceased (1648)
Marin Mersenne, Marin Mersennus or "le Père Mersenne" was a French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as t...
Petrus de Cruce

Petrus de Cruce

male
Petrus de Cruce (Pierre de la Croix) was active as a cleric, composer and theorist in the late part of the 13th century. His main contribution was...
Jean-Philippe Rameau

Jean-Philippe Rameau

male, deceased (1764)
Jean-Philippe Rameau (September 25, 1683 - September 12, 1764) was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque...
Philippe de Vitry

Philippe de Vitry

male, deceased (1361)
Philippe de Vitry (October 31, 1291 - June 9, 1361) was a French composer, music theorist and poet. He was an accomplished, innovative, and...
Guillaume Costeley

Guillaume Costeley

male, deceased (1606)
Guillaume Costeley was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was the court organist to Charles IX of France and famous for his numerous...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

male, deceased (1778)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778) was a Genevan philosopher of the Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French...
Johannes de Grocheio

Johannes de Grocheio

male, deceased (1320)
Johannes de Grocheio (Grocheo) (ca. 1255-ca.1320) was a Parisian musical theorist of the early fourteenth century. His French name was Jean de...
Loys Bourgeois

Loys Bourgeois

male
Loys Bourgeois (Louis Bourgeois) (c.1510 to 1515 - 1559 or later) was a French composer and music theorist of the Renaissance. He is most famous as...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

male
Rousseau lived for thirty years with an uneducated seamstress named Thérèse Lavasseur, whom he met in 1745. They had five children, all of whom Ro...