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Also Known As Heinrich Isaak
Born c.1450 • Brabant • Belgium • Netherlands
Died 1517 • Florence • Italy
Movement / Style Franco-Netherlandish school
Josquin des Prez
Josquin des Prez
French-Flemish composer
Dufay and Gilles Binchois
Guillaume Dufay
Franco-Flemish composer
Alexander Agricola
Dutch composer
Lasso, engraving by James Caldwall
Orlando di Lasso
Flemish composer
Nicolas Gombert
Flemish composer
Pierre de La Rue
Flemish composer
Jacobus Clemens
Flemish composer
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Italian composer
John Dunstable
English composer
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Spanish composer
Jakob Obrecht
Dutch composer
Ludwig Senfl
Swiss composer
Antoine Busnois
French composer
Jean Mouton
French composer
Jean de Ockeghem
Flemish composer
Philippe de Monte
Dutch composer
Jacques Arcadelt
French composer
Loyset Compère
Flemish 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
Adriaan Willaert
Flemish composer