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Baptized December 30, 1678
Died August 14, 1727 • Bath • England
Movement / Style Baroque art and architecture • Baroque music
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William Boyce
British composer
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Thomas Tomkins
English composer and organist
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Jeremiah Clarke
English 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
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
Blow, John
John Blow
English musician
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Thomas Weelkes
English composer
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Orlando Gibbons
English 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
Domenico Scarlatti, engraving.
Domenico Scarlatti
Italian composer
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Italian composer
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Dietrich Buxtehude
Danish composer
François Couperin
François Couperin
French composer [1668-1733]
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Johann Jakob Froberger
German composer
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Antonio Soler
Spanish composer
Tallis, Thomas
Thomas Tallis
English composer
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John Bull
English composer
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Pelham Humfrey
English composer
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John Marbeck
British composer