Dates of the main composers

Dates of the main

composers

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It is often useful to have a listing of the main composers of a

particular era. This list is of course not complete, and never will be.
Some dates are speculative, and there may be disagreement in the
sources, or new discoveries which change our knowledge. Period
divisions can always be argued over, and differed from region to
region.
I would appreciate it if readers could email me to fill in any glaring
omissions, or to correct an error. This list was originally compiled
when I was teaching some years ago, and there might be some
improvements necessary.
Abbreviations:
fl. flourished (ie. we don't know the dates, but this is when he/she
was working)
c. circa (about)
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Historical treatises on viola da
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William White, a forgotten 17th
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Some choice musical quotations
Dates of the main composers

Mediaeval [c.1000 - c.1450]

Baroque [c. 1600 - c. 1750]

Peter Abelard (1079 - 1142)

Giulio Caccini (c. 1546 - 1618)

Abbess Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179)

Jacopo Peri (1561 - 1633)

Leonin (fl. 1150 - 1240)

Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643)

Perotin (c. 1160 - 1240)

Heinrich Schutz (1585 - 1672)

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Adam de la Halle (1245 - after 1306)

Luigi Rossi (1597 - 1659)

Philippe de Vitry (1291 - 1361)

Francesco Cavalli (1602 - 1676)

Guillaume de Machaut (1300 - 1377)

Giovanni Carissimi (1605 - 1674)

Francesco Landini (c. 1325 - 1397)

Marc'Antonio Cesti (1623 - 1669)

John Dunstable (1380 - 1453)

Giovanni Battista Lully (c. 1632 - 1687)

Leonel Power (? - 1445)

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1634 - 1704)

Gilles Binchois (c. 1400 - 1460)

John Blow (1647 - 1708)

Guillaume Dufay (1400 - 1477)

Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)

Johannes Ockeghem (1430 - 1494)

Dietrich Buxtehude (1637 - 1707)

Renaissance [c. 1450 - c. 1600]

Heinrich von Biber (1644 - 1704)

Josquin des Prez (c. 1440 - 1521)

Johann Pachelbel (1653 - 1706)

Pierre de la Rue (c. 1460 - 1518)

Arcangelo Corelli (1653 - 1713)

Heinrich Isaac (c. 1450 - 1517)

Marin Marais (1656 - 1728)

Jacob Obrecht (1452 - 1505)

Giuseppe Torelli (1658 - 1709)

Robert Fayrfax (1464 - 1521)

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 - 1725)

William Cornysh (c. 1465 - 1523)

Francois Couperin (1668 - 1733)

Glareanus (1488 - 1563)

Antoine Forqueray (1672 - 1745)

Clement Janequin (c. 1485 - c. 1560)

Louis Nicholas Clerambault (1676 - 1749)

Adrian Willaert (1490 - 1562)

Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)

Ludwig Senfl (c. 1490 - 1543)

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767)

John Taverner (c. 1490 - 1545)

Jean Philippe Rameau (1683 - 1764)

Christopher Tye (c. 1500 - 1573)

Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1725)

Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 - 1585)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)

Andrea Gabrieli (1510 - 1586)

George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)

Jacobus Clemens (Clemens non Papa)

(c.1510 - c. 1556)

Francesco Geminiani (1687 - 1762)

Jean Marie Leclair (1697 - 1764)

Jacques Arcadelt (c. 1510 - 1568)

Cipriano de Rore (1516 - 1565)

Rococo/Classical [c.1740 - c. 1810]

Johann Joachim Quantz (1697 -1773)

Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina ( 1525 - 1594)

Michel Corrette (1707 - 1795)
Claude Le Jeune (1528 - 1600)
Thomas Arne (1710 - 1778)
Robert White ( c.1530 - 1574)
William Boyce (1710 - 1779)
Luca Marenzio (1533 - 1599)

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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710 - 1736)

Orlando de Lasso (Roland de Lassus) (1538
- 1594)

Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 - 1787)

Tomas Luis de Victoria (c. 1540 - 1611)

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 1788)

William Byrd (1543 - 1623)

Johann Stamitz (1717 - 1757)

Giovanni Gabrieli (1557 - 1612) (Andrea

Gabrieli's nephew)

Leopold Mozart (W.A. Mozart's father)

(1719 - 1787)

Thomas Morley (1558 - 1603)

Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)

Carlo Gesualdo (Price of Venosa) (c. 1560 1613)

Johann Christoph Bach (1735 - 1782)

John Bull (1563 - 1628)

Giles Farnaby (c. 1565 - 1640)
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562 - 1621)
John Dowland (1563 - 1626)
Giovanni Coprario (John Cooper) (c. 1570 1627)
Michael Praetorius (1571 - 1621)
Anthony Holborne (? - 1602)
Thomas Tomkins (1572 - 1656)
John Wilbye (1574 - 1638)

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739 - 1799)

Karl Stamitz (Johann's son) (1745 - 1801)
Muzio Clementi (1752 - 1832)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778 - 1837)
John Field (1782 - 1837)
Fernando Sor (1778 - 1839)
Niccolo Paganini (1782 - 1840)
Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)

Thomas Weelkes (c. 1575 - 1623)

Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583 - 1643)
Orlando Gibbons (1585 - 1625)
Johann Hermann Schein (1586 - 1630)
Samuel Scheidt (1587 - 1654)
John Jenkins (1592 - 1678)
William Lawes (1602 - 1645)
Johann Jacob Froberger (1616 - 1667)
Matthew Locke (c. 1630 - 1677)

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