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Also Known As Perotinus
Died 1238? • Paris • France
Notable Works “Alleluia Nativitas”
Movement / Style Ars Antiqua • Notre-Dame school
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Léonin
French composer
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Italian composer
Tallis, Thomas
Thomas Tallis
English 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
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
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