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Born c.1445 • Hainaut • Belgium
Died August 16, 1518 • Saint-Quentin • France
Movement / Style Franco-Netherlandish school
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Nicolas Gombert
Flemish composer
Josquin des Prez
Josquin des Prez
French-Flemish composer
Dufay and Gilles Binchois
Guillaume Dufay
Franco-Flemish composer
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Jean de Ockeghem
Flemish composer
Lasso, engraving by James Caldwall
Orlando di Lasso
Flemish composer
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Antoine Busnois
French composer
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Jacobus Clemens
Flemish composer
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Tomás Luis de Victoria
Spanish 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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Marc-Antoine Charpentier
French composer
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Claudin de Sermisy
French singer and composer
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Alexander Agricola
Dutch composer
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Philippe de Monte
Dutch composer
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Adriaan Willaert
Flemish composer
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Pierre de La Rue
Flemish composer
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Jean Mouton
French 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
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Italian composer
Tallis, Thomas
Thomas Tallis
English composer
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Christopher Tye
British composer