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Period: 1320 to 1362
da Firenze
Italian composer and priest -
Period: 1325 to 1397
Landini
Italian composer and virtuoso organist. He was blind and the most famous Trecento composer. I consider him one of the most important figures in Italian Madrigals. -
Period: 1340 to 1386
da Bologna
Italian composer, harpist, theorist and Landini's teacher -
Period: 1390 to 1430
Renaissance Musical Era
The renaissance musical period was characterized by secular music and included many different types of small ensembles and types of music like Italian Madrigals, German Lieds, the French Chanson, and the Spanish Villancico. -
Period: 1390 to 1453
Dunstaple
Leading english composer of the renaissance. Many of his works were destroyed -
Period: 1397 to 1474
Du Fay
The first important Renaissance composer and used older medieval cadences -
Period: 1410 to 1497
Ockeghem
A bass singer born in France. Was a great teacher -
Period: 1450 to 1521
des Prez
Martin Luther considered him a great composer. French. -
Period: 1450 to 1517
Isaac
Influenced German music and a court composer for Maxim;ilian I. -
Period: 1452 to 1518
de la Rue
composer in the Burgundian court. -
Period: 1457 to 1505
Obrecht
Dutch composer of many important masses in Europe -
Period: 1466 to 1539
Petrucci
The first music printer and publisher -
Period: 1483 to 1546
Martin Luther
Theologian who pioneered the protestant movement and founded the Lutheran church -
Period: 1490 to 1562
Willaert
Composed music with complex continuous polyphony and a great teacher -
Period: 1505 to
Tallis
An english organist who taught Byrd. -
Period: 1507 to 1568
Arcadelt
Dutch composer who was famous for his Madrigals -
Period: 1515 to 1565
de Rore
A flemish composer who was associated with Willaert -
Period: 1521 to
de Monte
One of the best Renaissance composer who mixed polyphony and homophony -
Period: 1525 to
Pierluigi da Palestrina
Icon of Renaissance music and worked with the council of Trent -
Period: 1532 to
di Lasso
employed by Gabrieli -
Period: 1532 to
A.Gabrieli
Italian organist, composer and teacher. Uncle of G. Gabrieli -
Period: 1534 to
Count bardi
Leader of the Florentine Camerata -
Period: 1535 to
de Wert
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Period: 1540 to
Byrd
Greatest english composer of his time -
Period: 1548 to
de Victoria
Studied in Rome and greatest spanish composer of the renaissance -
Period: 1553 to
Marenzio
leading madrigal composer of the late 16th century -
Period: 1557 to
Morely
English madrigal composer -
Period: 1561 to
Gesualdo
known for chromaticism in the renaissance -
Period: 1567 to
Monteverdi
I consider him the best composer of the renaissance, ahead of his time -
Period: 1576 to
Weelkes
English madrigal composer