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Born c.1490 • England
Died October 15, 1545 • Boston • England
Movement / Style polyphony
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Christopher Tye
British composer
Tallis, Thomas
Thomas Tallis
English composer
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Italian 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
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Tomás Luis de Victoria
Spanish composer
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Cristóbal de Morales
Spanish composer
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier
French composer
William Byrd
William Byrd
English composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini
Italian composer
Josquin des Prez
Josquin des Prez
French-Flemish composer
Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
French composer
Lasso, engraving by James Caldwall
Orlando di Lasso
Flemish composer
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Loyset Compère
Flemish composer
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Antoine Busnois
French composer
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Nicolas Gombert
Flemish 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
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Alexander Agricola
Dutch 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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John Dunstable
English composer