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Born c.1562 • Radnorshire • Wales
Died March 12, 1628 or March 13, 1628 • Antwerp • Spanish Netherlands
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Orlando Gibbons
English composer
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William Croft
English musician
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Thomas Tomkins
English composer and organist
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Italian composer
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Antonio de Cabezón
Spanish composer
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Johann Jakob Froberger
German composer
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Antonio Soler
Spanish composer
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Johann Kuhnau
German composer
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Louis-Nicholas Clérambault
French musician
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Louis-Claude Daquin
French composer
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Juan Bautista José Cabanilles
Spanish 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
William Byrd
William Byrd
English composer
Portrait of Benjamin Britten, British composer, wearing a suit and patterned tie, looking toward the camera with a neutral expression.
Benjamin Britten
British composer
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William Boyce
British composer
Blow, John
John Blow
English musician
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Thomas Weelkes
English composer
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Richard Farrant
English composer and theatrical producer
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Charles Avison
English composer
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John Marbeck
British composer