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Born April 23, 1464 • England
Died October 24, 1521 (aged 57) • Saint Albans • England
John Dunstable
English composer
William Byrd
William Byrd
English composer
Tallis, Thomas
Thomas Tallis
English composer
William Mundy
English composer
Leonel Power
English composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer
Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini
Italian composer
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Italian 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
Josquin des Prez
Josquin des Prez
French-Flemish composer
Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
French composer
Dufay and Gilles Binchois
Guillaume Dufay
Franco-Flemish composer
Lasso, engraving by James Caldwall
Orlando di Lasso
Flemish composer
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Spanish composer
Cristóbal de Morales
Spanish composer
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
French composer
Claudin de Sermisy
French singer and composer
Antoine Busnois
French composer
Jacob Handl
German-Austrian composer