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Born c.1385 • England
Died December 24, 1453 • London • England
Dufay and Gilles Binchois
Guillaume Dufay
Franco-Flemish composer
William Byrd
William Byrd
English composer
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Italian composer
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
Josquin des Prez
Josquin des Prez
French-Flemish composer
Lasso, engraving by James Caldwall
Orlando di Lasso
Flemish 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
Tallis, Thomas
Thomas Tallis
English composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, with a serious expression and a brick wall in the background.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
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Sir Henry J. Wood
British musician
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Robert Fayrfax
English composer
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William Mundy
English composer
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Leonel Power
English 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
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Austrian composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Hungarian composer
Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini
Italian composer
Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
French composer