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An early Baroque
composer, Monteverdi
borrowed many of his
melodies and scales from
the Medieval and Renaissa...
Lutenist Anthony Rooley
formed Consort of Musicke
in 1969 to play early music.
They perform English and
Italian works from the Re...
When not murdering
people, this Italian Prince
wrote inventive and
progressive madrigals.
Church composer whose
life spanned the sixteenth
century. Plenty of voices
going every which way, all
singing about God. After t...
Gabrieli's music, born in
sixteenth century Venice,
demonstrates the earliest
beginnings of the Baroque
era. Giovanni Gabrieli (155...
This French poet/musician
demonstrates the Ars Nova
musical style of the
fourteenth century.
Contemporary of Chaucer...
Dufay hung around with
popes in the fifteenth
century and wrote
complex vocal polyphony,
both sacred and secular.
Born in 1098 and raised in a
convent, Hildegard became
a prolific author and an
advisor to popes and rulers.
Sweelinck's life as an
organist, composer, and
lifelong Amsterdam resident
straddled the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries.
This fifteenth century
Dutchman achieved
success creating highly
complex contrapuntal
choral works, masses, an...
Dowland's a Londoner and
European court musician
best known for his lute
accompanied songs. His
sensitive technique was s...
Lassus' prolific output from
his Bavarian chapel
appointment represents all
the sixteenth century's
major musical genres.
Gibbons was an English
composer of the
Elizabethan era who held
the post of organist at
Westminster Abbey.
Morley was a composer and
music editor of Elizabethan
England, and once held a
monopoly over all printed
music in England.
This serious minded
composer of sacred Latin
music has become history's
best-known
Renaissance-era Spanish...
An expressive early
composer, Byrd distributed
his talent over both the
sacred and secular realms.
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