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Flourished	c.201 - c.400
Subjects Of Study	music • musical notation • ancient Greece

Aristides Quintilianus

Greek author

Guido d’Arezzo

Italian musician

Henri Pousseur

Belgian composer

Philippe de Vitry

French composer

Julián Carrillo

Mexican composer

Samuel Scheidt

German composer

Hucbald

French music theorist

Xenophon

Greek historian

Yanni

Greek-born American composer and musician

Iannis Xenakis

French composer

Archytas of Tarentum

Greek mathematician

Euhemerus

Greek mythographer

Aristoxenus

Greek philosopher

Dimitri Mitropoulos

Greek conductor

Agathias

Byzantine historian and poet

Mikis Theodorakis

Greek composer

Terpander

Greek musician

Townes Van Zandt

American musician

Tiny Tim

American musician

Eazy-E

American musician