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Born c.1575
William Byrd
William Byrd
English composer
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Thomas Morley
British composer
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Thomas Weelkes
English composer
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Orlando Gibbons
English composer
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William Mundy
English composer
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Giles Farnaby
English composer
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Michael East
English composer
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Robert Jones
English composer
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Thomas Tomkins
English composer and organist
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Jonathan Battishill
British composer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Italian composer
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Francesca Caccini
Italian composer and singer
Portrait of Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa by Francesco Mancini, showing the composer in profile wearing a yellow embroidered coat and white cravat against a dark background.
Carlo Gesualdo, principe di Venosa, conte di Conza
Italian composer and lutenist
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Barbara Strozzi
Italian singer and composer
Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz
German composer
Lasso, engraving by James Caldwall
Orlando di Lasso
Flemish composer
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Italian composer
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Jacques Arcadelt
French composer
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Francesco Landini
Italian composer