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Born c.1486 • Zürich • Basel • Switzerland
Died 1542 or 1543 • Munich • Germany
Movement / Style Franco-Netherlandish school
Josquin des Prez
Josquin des Prez
French-Flemish composer
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Italian composer
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John Dunstable
English composer
Dufay and Gilles Binchois
Guillaume Dufay
Franco-Flemish composer
Lasso, engraving by James Caldwall
Orlando di Lasso
Flemish composer
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Tomás Luis de Victoria
Spanish composer
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Heinrich Isaac
Flemish composer
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Jakob Obrecht
Dutch composer
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Austrian composer
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Hungarian 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
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
Beach, Amy Marcy
Amy Marcy Beach
American musician
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Sir Henry J. Wood
British musician
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Philippe de Monte
Dutch composer
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Jean de Ockeghem
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