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Born 1543 • Lincoln • England
Died July 4, 1623 (aged 80) • England
Notable Works “Cantiones Sacrae” • “Fitzwilliam Virginal Book” • “Gradualia” • “Psalmes, Songs and Sonnets” • “Songs of sundrie natures”

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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Purcell, Henry
Henry Purcell
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Thomas Tallis
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William Boyce
British composer
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Austrian composer
C.P.E. Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
German composer
Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
French composer
Lasso, engraving by James Caldwall
Orlando di Lasso
Flemish composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams
British composer
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John Blow
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Matthew Locke, portrait by an unknown artist; in the collection of the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford
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William Croft
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Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
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