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1400 BCE
Epitafio de Seikilos
The musical composition tells us these wise words: As long as you live, shine, do not suffer for anything at all. -
Period: 476 to 1492
Middle Age
The Middle Age was a period of time in the European history between the Antiquity and the Modern Age, characterized by feudalism, crusades, and Romanesque art. -
600
Canto gregoriano
The Gregorian was the liturgical chant of the church of Rome, influenced by the Gallican in the second half of the 8th century, whose extension to the entire West took place at the same time as that of the Latin rite itself, of which it was the acoustic expression. -
Period: 992 to 1050
Guido d’Arezzo
Guido d'Arezzo perfected musical writing with the incorporation of the tetragram, which was a musical pause of four horizontal lines, precursor of the staff with which the pitches of the sound were fixed more precisely, a system similar to the current one, as well as pneumatic notation. -
Period: 1098 to Sep 17, 1179
Hildegard von Bingen
She is one of the most famous composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most recorded in modern times.
Considered one of the most influential, multifaceted and fascinating personalities of the Late Middle Ages and Western history. -
Period: 1135 to 1201
Leonin
He created a style of composition from the mid-12th century, used at Notre Dame around 1200. It is not preserved in its original form, but several copies have survived in manuscripts found in Florence, Wolfenbüttel and Madrid. -
Period: 1135 to 1194
Bernart de Ventadorn
He was an Occitan troubadour, an outstanding figure in provincial
poetry and the main representative of the trobar leu. -
Period: 1155 to 1230
Perotín
Perotin, called in French Pérotin le Grand ("the Great") or in Latin Magister Perotinus Magnus (also Perotinus Magnus and Magister Perotinus) was a medieval French composer. -
Period: Nov 23, 1221 to Apr 4, 1284
Alfonso X (el sabio)
He is considered the founder of Castilian prose and it was, precisely in his time, when Castilian became the official language of the kingdom, leaving Latin in the background. The monarch was a tremendously cultured person. He had studies in astronomy, history and legal sciences, among other areas. -
Period: 1300 to Apr 13, 1377
Guillaume de Machaut
He was a French poet and musician, greatly admired by his contemporaries as a master of French versification and regarded as one of the leading French composers of the 14th-century Ars Nova (q.v.) musical style. -
1320
Are Nova
Ars Nova is a term that comes from Latin and translates as "new art." This term was used for the first time in the 14th century to refer to a musical trend that emerged in France and Belgium. This new musical trend was characterized by innovation and experimentation, and gave rise to a more complex and sophisticated style of music than what was done until then, both in rhythm and musical notation. -
1322
Ars Antiqua
It is a song for two or three voices of a contrapuntal nature. It has the peculiarity that each independent voice has a different text and a different rhythm, making it a very lively and contrasting music. -
Period: 1335 to Sep 2, 1397
Francesco Landini
Was a prominent composer of 14th-century Italy, famous during his lifetime for his musical memory, his skill at improvisation, and his virtuosity on the organetto, or portable organ, as well as for his compositions. -
Feb 3, 1468
Johannes Gutenberg (death day)
Was a German goldsmith, inventor of the modern printing press with movable type -
Period: Jul 12, 1468 to 1529
Juan del Encina
As a playwright, he is considered the initiator and patriarch of Spanish theater. Its beginning can be dated to Christmas 1492, when it performed before the Dukes of Alba two theatrical eclogues in which shepherds announce the birth of Christ. -
Period: Nov 10, 1483 to Feb 18, 1546
Martín Lutero
Five hundred years ago the Protestant movement began that changed Christianity forever. On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther published his criticism against the Catholic Church and its center of power in Rome that launched the Reformation. -
Period: 1500 to 1553
Cristóbal de Morales
Spanish Catholic priest and chapelmaster, being the main representative of the Andalusian polyphonist school and one of the three greats, along with Tomás Luis de Victoria and Francisco Guerrero, of the Spanish polyphonic composition of the Renaissance. Their music is vocal and sacred. -
Period: Mar 30, 1510 to Mar 26, 1566
Antonio de Cabezón
He was a Spanish organist, harpist and composer of the Renaissance. The works of music for keyboard, harp and vihuela by Antonio de Cabezón, published in Madrid in 1578, by his son Hernando de Cabezón. -
Period: 1532 to
Orlando di Lasso
He was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. Along with Palestrina and Victoria, he is considered one of the most influential composers of the 16th century. -
Period: 1533 to
Andrea Gabrieli
He was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. -
Period: 1544 to
Maddalena Casulana
She was the first woman composer to have an entire exclusive volume of her music printed and published in the history of Western music. -
Period: 1548 to
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Fue un sacerdote católico, maestro de capilla y célebre compositor polifonista del renacimiento español. Se le ha considerado uno de los compositores más relevantes y avanzados de su época, con un estilo innovador que anunció el inminente barroco. -
Period: 1557 to
Giovanni Gabrieli
He was an Italian composer and organist, born and died in Venice. One of the most influential musicians of his time, he represents the culmination of the Venetian school, framed in the transition from Renaissance music to Baroque music. -
Period: Mar 30, 1566 to
Carlo Gesualdo
The composer Carlo Gesualdo, prince of Venosa and count of Conza was born in Venosa (Basilicata, Italy) in 1566 and died in Avellino (Campania) in 1613. He murdered his wife, his wife's lover and his own son. -
1567
Claudio Monteverdi
He was an Italian composer, singer, choir director, viola player and ecclesiastic. Monteverdi is known as the person responsible for the birth of 16th century opera, leaving behind the polyphonic tradition of the time. -
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (death day)
He was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known representative of the 16th-century Roman School of musical composition. -
Giacomo Carissimi
Giacomo Carissimi (baptized April 18, 1605 in Marino, near Rome [Italy]; died January 12, 1674 in Rome) was one of the greatest Italian composers of the 17th century, known mainly for his oratorios and secular cantatas. . -
Barbara Strozzi
The Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi was one of the most important composers of Italian baroque cantatas and arias. His work was published prolifically during his lifetime and was essential to the historical development of vocal music and opera beyond the Baroque era. -
Stradivarius
In the world of string instruments, few are as prized as the Stradivarius. Its creator was Antonio Stradivari, a tireless luthier from Cremona who manufactured almost 1,200 instruments throughout his more than 70 years of work. -
Antonio Vivaldi
Vivaldi composed more than 700 works for different instruments, including more than 400 violin concertos and 46 operas. -
George Philipp Telemann
Telemann is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most prolific composer in history. In addition to composing more than 1000 cantatas and 600 suites, he also created operas, passions, oratorios and concertos for various instruments. -
Georg Friedrich Händel
He was a German composer, later naturalized English, considered one of the leading figures in the history of music, especially the baroque, and one of the most influential composers of Western and universal music. -
Johann Sebastian Bach is
Bach's work was diverse, including the Brandenburg Concertos, the St. Matthew Passion, the Toccata and Fugue in D minor and the Sacred Cantatas 80, 140 and 147, among many others. He was a great composer, but also a great player of the harpsichord, keyboard and organ. -
Henry Purcel
He was an English composer of the middle baroque period, best remembered for his more than 100 songs; a tragic opera, Dido and Aeneas; and his incidental music for a version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream called The Fairy Queen.