(A Full list of medieval composers)
Early Medieval (500 C.E. - 1000) composers:
Kassia of Constantinople (c. 805 - c. 865)
Notker the Stammerer (c. 840 - 912) (Swiss) -
Hucbald (c. 850 - 930) wrote the first systematic work on western music theory
High Medieval (100 - 1250) composers:
Guido of Arezzo (c. 991 - 1033?) (Italian) - Invented first modern musical notation
William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (1071 - 1127) - First troubadour
Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179) German - Composer of the first liturgical drama / Morality Play.
Chrétien de Troyes (1135? - 1165?) - First trouvére
Léonin (fl. 1150 - 1201) French? Composer at Notre Dame, invented polyphony.
Walther von der Vogelweide (c. 1170 – c. 1230) German - Greatest German Medieval Poet
Alfonso X of Castile (1221–1284) Spanish - Cantigas de Santa Maria
Late Medieval (1250 - 1400) composers:
Adam de la Halle (1240 - 1287) French
Philippe de Vitry (1291 - 1361) French
Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300 - 1337) French
Francesco Landi (c. 1325 - 1397) Italian - Music of the Trecento
Monk of Salzburg (c. 1350? - 1400?) German - Unknown monk composed 100 Liederhandschriften
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Renaissance (1400 - 1600) composers: (A full list of Renaissance composers)
Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376/77 -1445) Tyrol -
Leonel Power (c. 1380 - 1145) English -
John Dunstable (c. 1390 - 1453) English - Transitional figure to Renaissance music
Guillaume Du Fay (1397 - 1474) Franco-Flemish - First master of the Franco-Flemish school
Gilles Binchois (1400 - 1460) Low Countries
Johannes Ockeghem (410/1425 – 1497) Franco-Flemish -
Josquin des Prez (1455? - 1521) Franco-Flemish - Master of High Renaissance polyphony
John Taverner (c. 1490 – 1545) - English
Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 – 1585) - English
Jacques Arcadelt (1507 - 1558) Franco-Flemish - Known for his secular madrigals
Antonio de Cabezón (1510 – 1566) - Spanish Keyboard composer
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 - 1594) Italian - Culmination of Late Renaissance polyphony
Orlande de Lassus (c. 1530 - 1594) Franco-Flemish -
William Byrd (c. 1539/40 - 1623) English -
Tomás Luis de Victoria (c. 1548 – 1611) Spanish
John Dowland (1563 – buried 20 February 1626) - English?/Irish?
Thomas Campion (1567 – 1620) - English
Transition to Baroque Music:
Guilo Caccini (1551 - 1618) Italian - Transitional figure, his madrigals influenced early opera
Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1555 - 1612) Italian
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562 – 1621) Dutch north German organ tradition.
John Bull (1562 or 1563 – 1628) English - Organ & virginal (harpsichord) music
Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643) Italian - madrigals, wrote L'Orfeo (1607) the first lasting opera
Michael Praetorius (1571 – 1621) German - Vocal & instrumental period
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583 – 1643) Italian - Keyboard (harpsichord) music
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