Guillaume de Machaut

Guillaume de Machaut

male, deceased (1377)
poet, composer, French, rondeau, Medieval composer, Medieval poet…Medievalmusic
Guillaume de Machaut, sometimes spelled Machault, (c. 1300 – April 1377), was an important Medieval French poet and composer. Guilllaume de Ma...
Guillaume Dufay

Guillaume Dufay

male, deceased (1474)
Music theorist, Renaissance composer, Franco-Flemish composer, Du Fay, Medieval composer, Renaissance…music theory, Medievalmusic, Renaissance music
Guillaume Dufay (Du Fay, Du Fayt) (?August 5, 1397 - November 27, 1474) was a Franco-Flemish composer and music theorist of the late Middle...
Benjamin Bagby

Benjamin Bagby

male
composer, Harpist, beowulf, notre dame, harmonia mundi, sequentia…Medievalmusic, Early music performer
Benjamin Bagby is a singer, composer, harpist, and groundbreaking performer of medieval music. Educated at Oberlin and the Schola Cantorum in...
Jordi Savall

Jordi Savall

male, 68 years old
musician, Igualada, Renaissance music, catalonia, Viol player, Medievalmusic…Early music performer, early music, baroque music
Jordi Savall i Bernadet (born 1941, in Igualada, Spain) is a Spanish viol player, conductor, and composer. He has been one of the major figures in...
Johannes Ciconia

Johannes Ciconia

male, deceased (1412)
Gil Alvarez De Albornoz, Ars subtilior composer, composer, Medieval composer, Trecento composer, music theory…Medievalmusic, Music of the Trecento, Music theorist
Johannes Ciconia was a late medieval composer and music theorist. He has possibly been conflated with his father of the same name in some...

Troubadour

male
trobador, Occitan language, chivalry, Musical performer, Occitan, Defunct occupations…The Medieval Lyric, Occupations in music, Medievalmusic, Medieval literature
A troubadour (a French adaptation of the Occitan word trobador) was a composer and performer of songs during the High Middle Ages in Europe. The...
Mike Patton

Mike Patton

male, 41 years old
Michael Allan Patton, White Trash Firecracker, Faith No More member, first-person shooter, Grammy, the darkness…Medieval-style chanting, Medievalmusic
Michael Allan Patton is a Grammy nominated musician, best known as the lead singer of the band Faith No More from 1988 to 1998. He has also handled...
Guido Of Arezzo

Guido Of Arezzo

male, deceased (1033)
Guidonian hand, Italian music theorist, death, from Arezzo, boethius, Italian…Medievalmusic, Music theorist
Guido of Arezzo or Guido Aretinus or Guido da Arezzo or Guido Monaco or Guido D'Arezzo (991/992-after 1033) was a music theorist of the Medieval...

Gustave Reese

male, deceased (1977)
Harvard University, Oxford University, Duke University, University of Michigan, New York University, University of Southern California…juilliard school of music, Medievalmusic, Renaissance music, Music in the Middle Ages, Music in the Renaissance
Gustave Reese was an American musicologist and teacher. Reese is mainly known for his work on medieval and Renaissance music, particularly with his...
John Renbourn

John Renbourn

male, 65 years old
Folk guitarist, Songwriter, Sir John Alot, Pentangle, from Marylebone, Marylebone…European classical music, Medievalmusic, classical music, Medieval era
John Renbourn (born August 8, 1944, Marylebone, North London, England) is a British guitarist and songwriter. He is possibly best-known for his...