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Born c.1560 • Truro • England
Died 1640 • London • England
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English composer
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English composer
William Byrd
William Byrd
English composer
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Orlando Gibbons
English composer
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Thomas Tomkins
English composer and organist
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Andrea Gabrieli
Italian composer
Oil portrait of composer Georg Frideric Handel by Thomas Hudson, showing Handel in a red coat with gold trim, white wig, and holding a sheet of music.
George Frideric Handel
German-English composer
Tallis, Thomas
Thomas Tallis
English composer
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British composer
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British composer
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English composer
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English composer
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John Bennet
English composer
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Robert Jones
English composer
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William Croft
English musician
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British composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Painting by Elias Gottlieb Hausmann of Johann Sebastian Bach wearing a dark coat with a white shirt and holding a sheet of music in his left hand.
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Italian composer