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Born 1583 • Oxford • England
Died June 5, 1625 (aged 42) • Canterbury • England
Notable Works “Cries of London” • “Fantasies in Three Parts Compos’d for Viols” • “Madrigals and Motetts of 5 Parts”
Movement / Style polyphony
William Byrd
William Byrd
English composer
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Thomas Tomkins
English composer and organist
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Thomas Weelkes
English composer
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William Croft
English musician
Tallis, Thomas
Thomas Tallis
English composer
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Antonio de Cabezón
Spanish composer
Oil portrait of composer Georg Frideric Handel by Thomas Hudson, showing Handel in a red coat with gold trim, white wig, and holding a sheet of music.
George Frideric Handel
German-English composer
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William Boyce
British composer
Blow, John
John Blow
English musician
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John Bull
English composer
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John Mundy
English composer
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Jeremiah Clarke
English composer
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Peter Philips
British 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
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Italian composer
Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
French composer
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Italian composer
François Couperin
François Couperin
French composer [1668-1733]
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Andrea Gabrieli
Italian composer
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Hans Leo Hassler
German composer