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Born c.1490 • Brugge • Belgium
Died December 8, 1562 • Venice • Italy
Movement / Style Franco-Netherlandish school • concertato style • polyphony
Lasso, engraving by James Caldwall
Orlando di Lasso
Flemish composer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Italian composer
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Jacques Arcadelt
French composer
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Giaches de Wert
Flemish composer
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Nicolas Gombert
Flemish composer
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Jacobus Clemens
Flemish composer
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Alexander Agricola
Dutch composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
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Giovanni Legrenzi
Italian composer
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Luca Marenzio
Italian composer
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Armas Järnefelt
Finnish composer
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Italian composer
Guillaume de Machaut, detail of a miniature from Oeuvres de Guillaume de Machaut, c. 1370–80; in the Bibliothèque Nationale (Ms. Fr. 1584).
Guillaume de Machaut
French poet and musician
Josquin des Prez
Josquin des Prez
French-Flemish composer
Dufay and Gilles Binchois
Guillaume Dufay
Franco-Flemish composer
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Orlando Gibbons
English composer
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Andrea Gabrieli
Italian composer
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Antoine Busnois
French composer
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Tomás Luis de Victoria
Spanish composer