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Epitafio de Sicílio
It is the oldest complete musical composition currently preserved. -
Period: 476 to 1453
Old Middle Ages
The Middle Ages was the period in European history from the collapse of Roman civilization in the 5th century CE to the period of the Renaissance -
597
Gregorian chant
It is a type of plainsong, simple, monodic, and with music subordinated to the text used in the liturgy of the Catholic Church. -
992
Guido d’Arezzo
He was an Italian Benedictine monk and music theorist who is one of the central figures of medieval music. -
1098
Hildegard von Bingen
was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath, active as a composer, writer, philosopher, scientist, naturalist, physician, mystic, monastic leader, and prophetess during the high Middle Ages. Also known as the Sibyl of the Rhine and the Teutonic Prophetess, she is also one of the most famous composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most recorded in modern times. -
1135
Bernart de Ventadorn
He was a popular Provençal troubadour, composer and poet. He is probably the best-known troubadour of the style called trobar leu -
1135
Leonin
Léonin or Magister Leoninus is, along with Perotin, the first known composer of polyphonic organum, associated with the School of Notre Dame. -
1155
Perotín
He was a French composer who was born in Paris. Considered the most important composer of the Notre Dame de Paris school. -
1200
Ars Antiqua
It is a term that musicology uses to refer to polyphonic music from a period that is not entirely specific. -
1221
Alfonso X the Wise
He was the king of the Crown of Castile and the other titled kingdoms between 1252 and 1284. Upon the death of his father, Ferdinand III the Saint, he resumed the offensive against the Muslims and occupied Jerez (1253), Salé, the port of Rabat (1260) and conquered Cádiz (c. 1262) -
1300
Guillaume de Machaut
Guillaume de Machaut was a French medieval cleric, poet and composer. His influence was enormous and he is historically the greatest representative of the movement known as Ars nova, being considered the most famous composer of the 14th century. -
Period: 1300 to
Renaissance
Renaissance is the name given in the 19th century to a broad cultural movement that took place in Western Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. -
1320
Ars nova
From the end of the 12th century, the rhythmic innovations introduced by Franco de Colonia and Petrus de Cruce paved the way for new discoveries -
1335
Francesco Landini
He was an Italian composer, organist, singer, poet, instrument maker and astrologer. -
1400
Johannes Gutenberg
inventor of the modern printing press with movable type -
1468
Juan del Encina
He was a poet, musician and playwright of the Spanish Renaissance during the time of the Catholic Monarchs. Together with Juan de Anchieta, Juan de Urreda, Joan Cornago, Francisco de Peñalosa as one of the greatest exponents of religious and secular polyphony in Spain at the end of the 15th century and beginning of the 16th century, during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs. -
1483
Martín Lutero
Born as Martin Luder,[3] he was a theologian, philosopher and Augustinian Catholic friar who began and promoted the Protestant Reformation in Germany and whose teachings inspired the theological and cultural doctrine called Lutheranism.[ -
1500
Cristóbal de Morales
Spanish Catholic priest and choirmaster, the main representative of the Andalusian polyphonic school and one of the three greats, along with Tomás Luis de Victoria and Francisco Guerrero, of Spanish polyphonic composition of the Renaissance. His music is vocal and sacred, with only a couple of exceptions. He is probably the best Spanish composer of the first half of the 16th century and his fame, which immediately spread throughout Europe, survived for centuries to come. -
1510
Antonio de Cabezon
He was a Spanish composer and organist known for his important contribution to music. -
1525
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
He was an Italian composer of the Renaissance considered one of the most important figures in the development of sacred music. -
1532
Orlando di Lasso
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. -
1533
Andrea Gabrieli
was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. Uncle of perhaps the more famous composer Giovanni Gabrieli, he was the first internationally renowned member of the Venetian School of composers. He was highly influential in the spread of the Venetian style in both Italy and Germany. -
1544
Maddalena Casulana
was an Italian composer, lute player, and singer of the late Renaissance. She was the first woman composer to have an entire volume of her music printed and published exclusively in the history of Western music. -
1548
Tomás Luis de Victoria
He was a Catholic priest, choirmaster and famous polyphonic composer of the Spanish Renaissance. He has been considered one of the most relevant and advanced composers of his time, with an innovative style that announced the imminent Baroque. -
1566
Carlo Gesualdo
He was an Italian composer, one of the most significant figures of late Renaissance music, with intensely expressive madrigals and sacred music pieces with a chromaticism that would not be heard again until the end of the 19th century. The best-known event of his life was the murder of his first wife and her lover when he found them "in flagrante delicto". Forgotten over time, he was rediscovered in the 20th century due to the fascination with his extraordinary music and his shocking personal.