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Also Known As Leoninus
Flourished c.1150 - c.1200
Notable Works “Great Book of Organa”
Movement / Style Notre-Dame school
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Pérotin
French composer
Binchois (right) with composer Guillaume Dufay, illumination from Martin le Franc's Le Champion des dames, c. 1440; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (MS Fr. 12476).
Binchois
Flemish composer
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Gounod, Charles
Charles Gounod
French composer
Jean-Baptiste Lully, engraving by Geille after Johannot, c. 1830.
Jean-Baptiste Lully
French composer
Cherubini, Luigi
Luigi Cherubini
Italian composer
Josquin des Prez
Josquin des Prez
French-Flemish composer
Olivier Messiaen.
Olivier Messiaen
French composer
Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
French composer
Dufay and Gilles Binchois
Guillaume Dufay
Franco-Flemish composer
François Couperin
François Couperin
French composer [1668-1733]
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier
French composer
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Charles Bordes
French composer
Michel-Richard Delalande, detail of a crayon drawing by J.-B. Santerre
Michel-Richard Delalande
French composer
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Jehan Titelouze
French musician and composer
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André Campra
French composer
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Antoine Busnois
French 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
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Italian composer