Thomas Tallis

Thomas Tallis

male, deceased (1585)
16th century, tudor, dover, composer, Benedictine, augustinian…Renaissancecomposer
Thomas Tallis (circa 1505-23 November 1585) was an English composer. Tallis flourished as a church musician during the often stormy 16th century in...
William Byrd

William Byrd

male, deceased (1623)
tudor, Renaissance, English, baroque, Renaissancecomposer, Polymath…renaissance man, composer
William Byrd (c. 1540 - 4 July 1623) was an English composer of the Renaissance. He lived until well into the seventeenth century without writing...
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

male, deceased (1594)
from the Province of Rome, Renaissance, church music, sixteenth-century, musical composition, Roman School…Renaissance music, Roman school composer, composer, Renaissancecomposer
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (between 3 February 1525 and 2 February 1526 - 2 February, 1594) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance. He...
John Dowland

John Dowland

male, deceased (1626)
Come Again, In darkness let me dwell, Flow my tears, I saw my Lady weepe, Composer for lute, English…composer, Renaissancecomposer, Baroque composer
John Dowland (1563 - buried February 20, 1626) was an English composer, singer, and lutenist. He is best known today for his melancholy songs such...
Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Monteverdi

male, deceased (1643)
Italian opera composer, gambist, Renaissance, Opera composer, Baroque composer, Renaissancecomposer…composer, Renaissance music
Claudio Monteverdi (May 15, 1567 (baptized) - November 29, 1643) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer. His work marks the transition from...
Carlo Gesualdo

Carlo Gesualdo

male, deceased (1613)
nobleman, Count of Conza, madrigal, Italian, Renaissance, venosa…composer, Renaissancecomposer, Renaissance music, Composer of madrigals
Carlo Gesualdo, known as Gesualdo da Venosa (?March 8, 1566 - September 8, 1613), Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian music...
Giovanni Gabrieli

Giovanni Gabrieli

male, deceased (1612)
musician, Baroque composer, Renaissancecomposer, Venetian school composer, composer, Italian…Renaissance, Renaissance music
Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554/1557 - August 12, 1612) was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of his time,...

Tomás Luis de Victoria

male, deceased (1611)
Orlando de Lassus, Counter-Reformation, palestrina, spanish, 16th century, Renaissance…Renaissance music, composer, Renaissancecomposer
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 c...
Guillaume Dufay

Guillaume Dufay

male, deceased (1474)
Music theorist, Renaissancecomposer, Franco-Flemish composer, Du Fay, Medieval composer, Renaissance…Burgundian school composer, Renaissance music, composer, Composer of the Burgundian school
Guillaume Dufay (Du Fay, Du Fayt) (?August 5, 1397 - November 27, 1474) was a Franco-Flemish composer and music theorist of the late Middle...
Jacobus Gallus

Jacobus Gallus

male, deceased (1591)
moravia, slovene, slovenian, czech, Renaissance, composer…Renaissancecomposer
Jacobus Gallus Carniolus (Jacob Handl or Jacob Handl-Gallus) (July 3, 1550 - July 18, 1591) was a late Renaissance composer of Slovene origin. He...