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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
Dufay and Gilles Binchois
Guillaume Dufay
Franco-Flemish composer
Claude Le Jeune
French composer
Jean de Ockeghem
Flemish composer
Lasso, engraving by James Caldwall
Orlando di Lasso
Flemish 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
Claudin de Sermisy
French singer and composer
Clément Janequin
French composer
Adriaan Willaert
Flemish composer
Antoine Busnois
French composer
Nicolas Gombert
Flemish composer
Jacobus Clemens
Flemish composer
Alexander Agricola
Dutch composer

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