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Born c.1527 • Valenciennes • France
Died c.1600 • Paris • France
Lasso, engraving by James Caldwall
Orlando di Lasso
Flemish composer
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Jacques Arcadelt
French composer
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Jacobus Clemens
Flemish composer
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez
French composer and conductor
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
Portrait of French composer Erik Satie around 1915, showing him with a bald head, glasses, a full beard, and a suit with a striped tie.
Erik Satie
French composer
Josquin des Prez
Josquin des Prez
French-Flemish composer
Dufay and Gilles Binchois
Guillaume Dufay
Franco-Flemish composer
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Claude Goudimel
French composer, editor, and publisher
Duparc
Henri Duparc
French composer
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Claudin de Sermisy
French singer and composer
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Loys Bourgeois
French composer
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Clément Janequin
French composer
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Antoine Busnois
French composer
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Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
French composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg in a suit, seated at a piano and holding a conductor's baton, appears to be conducting music in a wood-paneled room.
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
Anton von Webern, 1940.
Anton Webern
Austrian composer
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Charles Ives
American composer