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Transition from Renaissance to Baroque (born 1500–49)

Composers in the Renaissance/Baroque transitional era include the following (listed by their date of birth): *

Philippe de Monte Philippe de Monte (1521 – 4 July 1603), sometimes known as Philippus de Monte, was a Flemish composer of the late Renaissance active all over Europe. He was a member of the 3rd generation madrigalists and wrote more madrigals than any other comp ...

(1521–1603) *

Baldassare Donato Baldassare Donato (also Donati) (1525-1530 – June 1603) was an Italian composer and singer of the Venetian school of the late Renaissance. He was ''maestro di cappella'' of the prestigious St. Mark's Basilica at the end of the 16th century ...

(1525/1530–1603) *

Costanzo Porta Costanzo Porta (1528 or 1529 – 19 May 1601) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance, and a representative of what is known today as the Venetian School. He was highly praised throughout his life both as a composer and a teacher, and had ...

(1529–1601) * Jiří Rychnovský (1529–1616) * Guillaume Costeley (1530–1606) *

Fabritio Caroso Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta (1526/1535 – 1605/1620) was an Italian Renaissance dancing master and a composer or transcriber of dance music. His dance manual ''Il Ballarino'' was published in 1581, with a subsequent edition, significantly dif ...

(1530–1605/1620) * Mateo Flecha the Younger (1530–1604) *

Gianmatteo Asola Giammateo Asola (also spelled Gian Matteo, Giovanni Matteo; Asula, Asulae; 1532 or earlier – 1 October 1609) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance. He was a prolific composer of sacred music, mostly in a conservative style, althoug ...

(1532–1609) *

Andrea Gabrieli Andrea Gabrieli (1532/1533Bryant, Grove online – August 30, 1585) was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. The uncle of the somewhat more famous Giovanni Gabrieli, he was the first internationally renowned member of the Ven ...

(1532/1523–1585) *

Claudio Merulo Claudio Merulo (; 8 April 1533 – 4 May 1604) was an Italian composer, publisher and organist of the late Renaissance period, most famous for his innovative keyboard music and his ensemble music composed in the Venetian polychoral style. He w ...

(1533–1604) *

Francesco Soto de Langa Francisco Soto de Langa (Langa de Duero, 1534 — Rome, 1619) was a singer, editor and composer. A minor exponent of the ''lauda'' and priest of the Congregation of the Oratory where he was affiliated with St. Fillippo Neri and Giovanni Animuc ...

(1534–1619) * Rocco Rodio (1535–after 1615) *

Mikołaj Gomółka Mikołaj Gomółka (c. 1535 – after 30 April 1591, most probably 5 March 1609) was a Polish Renaissance composer, and member of the royal court of Sigismund II Augustus, where he was a singer, flutist and trumpeter. Gomółka was born in Sando ...

(1535–1609) *

Cesare Negri Cesare Negri (c. 1535 – c. 1605) was an Italian dancer and choreographer. He was nicknamed ''il Trombone'', an ugly or jocular name for someone "who likes to blow his own horn". Born in Milan, he founded a dance academy there in 1554. He was a ...

(1535–1605) * Simone de Bonefont (1535 - ?) *

Johannes Matelart Johannes Matelart (also Matelart, Matellarto, Matelarte and other variations; first name sometimes Ioanne or Jean) (before 1538 – 7 June 1607) was a Flemish composer of the late Renaissance, active in Flanders, Bonn, and Rome. Details of his lif ...

(before 1538–1607) * Stefano Felis (1538–1603) *

William Byrd William Byrd (; 4 July 1623) was an English composer of late Renaissance music. Considered among the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he had a profound influence on composers both from his native England and those on the continent. He ...

(1540–1623) * Matthäus Waissel (1540–1602) *

Giovanni Ferretti Giovanni Ferretti (c. 1540 – after 1609) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance, best known for his secular music. He was important in the development of the lighter kind of madrigal current in the 1570s related to the villanella, and was ...

(1540–after 1609) * Tiburzio Massaino (1540–after 1608) *

Hernando de Cabezón Hernando de Cabezón, ( baptized 7 September 1541 – 1 October 1602) was a Spanish composer and organist, son of Antonio de Cabezón. Only a few of his works are extant today, and he is chiefly remembered for publishing the bulk of his father's w ...

(1541–1602) *

Gioseffo Guami Gioseffo Guami (27 January 1542 – 1611) (Gioseffo Giuseppe Guami or Gioseffo da Lucca) was an Italian composer, organist, violinist and singer of the late Renaissance Venetian School. He was a prolific composer of madrigals and instrumental mu ...

(1542–1611) *

Giovanni Maria Nanino Giovanni Maria Nanino (also Nanini; 1543 or 1544 – 11 March 1607) was an Italian composer and teacher of the late Renaissance. He was a member of the Roman School of composers, and was the most influential music teacher in Rome in the late 16t ...

(1543/1544–1607) *

Francesco Guami Francesco, the Italian (and original) version of the personal name " Francis", is the most common given name among males in Italy. Notable persons with that name include: People with the given name Francesco * Francesco I (disambiguation), sev ...

(1544–1602) *

Anthony Holborne Anthony ''AntonyHolborne ''Holburne(c. 1545 – 29 November 1602) was a composer of music for lute, cittern, and instrumental consort during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Life An "Anthony Holburne" entered Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1562, ...

(1545–1602) *

Luzzasco Luzzaschi Luzzasco Luzzaschi (c. 1545 – 10 September 1607) was an Italian composer, organist, and teacher of the late Renaissance. He was born and died in Ferrara, and despite evidence of travels to Rome it is assumed that Luzzaschi spent the majority o ...

(1545–1607) * Jakub Polak (1545–1605) *

Ginés de Boluda Ginés de Boluda (1545 in Hellín – c. 1606) was a Spanish church musician and composer. He was maestro de capilla'' at the Cathedral of Cádiz by 1578, taking up the same post at Cuenca Cathedral in that year succeeding Francisco Gabriel Gálv ...

(1545–1606) *

Manuel Mendes Manuel Mendes (or Manoel Mendes; c. 1547 – 24 September 1605) was a Portuguese composer and teacher of the Renaissance. While his music remains obscure, he was important as the teacher of several of the composers of the golden age of Portugu ...

(1547–1605) *

Francesco Soriano Francesco Soriano (1548 or 1549, in Soriano nel Cimino – 19 July 1621, in Rome) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most skilled members of the Roman School in the first generation after Palestrina. Soriano was born ...

(1548–1621) *

Tomás Luis de Victoria Tomás Luis de Victoria (sometimes Italianised as ''da Vittoria''; ) was the most famous Spanish composer of the Renaissance. He stands with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Orlande de Lassus as among the principal composers of the late Ren ...

(1548–1611) *

Eustache Du Caurroy François-Eustache du Caurroy (baptised February 4, 1549 – August 7, 1609) was a French composer of the late Renaissance. He was a prominent composer of both secular and sacred music at the end of the Renaissance, including '' musique mesurée'' ...

(1549–1609) * Bernardo Clavijo del Castillo (1549–1626)

Early Baroque era composers (born 1550–99)

Composers of the Early Baroque era include the following figures listed by the probable or proven date of their birth: *

Jacobus Gallus Jacobus Gallus (a.k.a. Jacob(us) Handl, Jacob(us) Händl, Jacob(us) Gallus; sl, Jakob Petelin Kranjski; between 15 April and 31 July 155018 July 1591) was a late-Renaissance composer of presumed Slovene ethnicity.Skei/Pokorn, Grove online Born ...

(1550–1591) *

Charles Tessier Charles Tessier (ca. 1550 – after 1604) was a French composer and lutenist.Lute Society journal: Volume 20 Lute Society (Great Britain) - 1978 THE LUTE AIRS OF CHARLES TESSIER. FRANK DOBBINS. Although no corroboration has been found for Fetis' ...

(1550–after 1604) * Thomas Mancinus (1550–1612) *

Ippolito Baccusi Ippolito Baccusi (also Baccusii, Hippolyti) (c. 1550 – 2 September 1609) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance, active in northern Italy, including Venice, Mantua, and Verona. A member of the Venetian School of composers, he had a str ...

(1550–1609) *

Emilio de' Cavalieri Emilio de' Cavalieri (c. 155011 March 1602), or Emilio dei Cavalieri, the spellings "del" and "Cavaliere" are contemporary typographical errors, was an Italian composer, producer, organist, diplomat, choreographer and dancer at the end of th ...

(c. 1550–1602) *

Cesario Gussago Cesario Gussago ( fl. 1599-1612) was an Italian priest, musician and composer of the late Renaissance era. He studied philosophy and theology at the University of Pavia and served as church organist in Brescia at Santa Maria della Grazia Santa Ma ...

(1550–1612) *

Pomponio Nenna Pomponio Nenna (baptized 13 June 1556 – 25 July 1608) was a Neapolitan Italian composer of the Renaissance. He is mainly remembered for his madrigals, which were influenced by Gesualdo, and for his polychoral sacred motets, posthumously pu ...

(1550–1613) *

Riccardo Rognoni Riccardo Rognoni or Richardo Rogniono (ca. 1550 – before 20 April 1620) is the earliest known member of the Rognoni family which started one of the earliest of all violin schools, based in Milan. His treatise ''Passaggi per potersi esercita ...

(c. 1550–c. 1620) * David Sacerdote (1550–1625) * Ruggiero Trofeo (1550–1614) *

Orazio Vecchi Orazio Vecchi (6 December 1550 (baptized) in Modena – 19 February 1605) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance. He is most famous for his madrigal comedies, particularly ''L'Amfiparnaso''. Life He was born in Modena, and ...

(1550–1605) * Guillaume de Chastillon, sieur de La Tour (c. 1550–1610) * Tomasz Szadek (1550–1612) *

Krzysztof Klabon Krzysztof Klabon (c. 1550 – c. 1616) was a Polish Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer. He was one of the most renowned instrumentalists of his time in Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central ...

(1550–1616) *

Gregory (Gregorius) Howet (Huwet) Gregory may refer to: People and fictional characters * Gregory (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Gregory (surname), a surname Places Australia * Gregory, Queensland, a town in the Shire o ...

(1550–1617) * Pedro de Cristo (1550–1618) *

Vicente Espinel Vicente Gómez Martínez-Espinel (; 28 December 15504 February 1624) was a Spanish writer and musician of the Siglo de Oro. He is credited the creation of the modern poetic form of the ''décima'', composed of ten octameters, named '' espinela'' ...

(1550–1624) * Juan Navarro (1550–1610) * Ambrosio Cotes (1550–1603) *

Sebastián Raval Sebastián Raval (c. 15501604) was a Spanish composer of vocal and instrumental music. Born in Cartagena, Spain, Cartagena, he served as a soldier of the Spanish army, Army of Flanders in Flanders and Sicily. He joined the order of St. John of Jer ...

(1550–1604) * Jan Trojan Turnovský (1550–1606) *

Pavel Spongopaeus Jistebnický Pavel Spongopaeus Jistebnický (1550-1560 in Jistebnice u Tábora – 1619 in Kutná Hora) was a Czech composer of the Renaissance and early Baroque era. He worked as a teacher all his life. He took several different posts and in 1598, at the ...

(1550–1619) *

Giulio Caccini Giulio Romolo Caccini (also Giulio Romano) (8 October 1551 – buried 10 December 1618) was an Italian composer, teacher, singer, instrumentalist and writer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the founders of the genre ...

(1551–1618) *

Benedetto Pallavicino Benedetto Pallavicino (c. 1551 – 26 November 1601) was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. A prolific composer of madrigals, he was resident at the Gonzaga court of Mantua in the 1590s, where he was a close associate of Gia ...

(1551–1601) * Girolamo Belli (1552–1620) * Edmund Hooper (1553–1621) *

Johannes Eccard Johannes Eccard (1553–1611) was a German composer and kapellmeister. He was an early principal conductor at the Berlin court chapel. Biography Eccard was born at Mühlhausen, in present-day Thuringia, Germany. At the age of eighteen he went to ...

(1553–1611) *

Leonhard Lechner Leonhard Lechner (also Leonard, 15539 September 1606) was a German composer, kapellmeister, tenor and music editor who was taught by Orlando de Lassus. He added Athesinus to his signature, referring to his origin in today's South Tyrol. His last ...

(1553–1606) * Elway Bevin (1554–1638) *

William Inglot William Inglott or Inglot (1553/4buried 31 December 1621) was an English organist and composer of the Elizabethan era, who is mostly associated with the cathedral in the English city of Norwich. Inglott moved from Norwich to Hereford Cathedr ...

(1554–1621) *

Emmanuel Adriaenssen Emmanuel Adriaenssen (also ''Adriaensen'', ''Adriansen'', ''Hadrianus'', ''Hadrianius''; c. 1554 in Antwerp – buried 27 February 1604 in Antwerp) was a Flemish lutenist, composer and master of music.Cosimo Bottegari (1554–1620) *

Girolamo Diruta Girolamo Diruta (c. 1546 – 1624 or 1625) was an Italian organist, music theorist, and composer. He was famous as a teacher, for his treatise ''Il Transilvano'' (Venice, 1st part 1593; 2nd part 1609-10) on counterpoint, and for his part in t ...

(1554-after 1610) *

Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi (c. 1554 – 4 January 1609) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. He is known for his 1591 publication of ''balletti'' for five voices. Career Gastoldi was born at Caravaggio, Lo ...

(1554–1609) *

Giovanni Gabrieli Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554/1557 – 12 August 1612) was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of his time, and represents the culmination of the style of the Venetian School, at the time of the shift f ...

(c. 1554/1557–1612) * Jacques Champion, ''Sieur de la Chapelle'' (before 1555–1642) * John Mundy (1555–1630) *

Gabriele Villani Gabriele is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name Surname *Al Gabriele, American comic book artist *Angel Gabriele (1956–2016), American comic book artist * Corrado Gabriele (born 1966), Italian polit ...

(1555–1625) *

Manuel Rodrigues Coelho Manuel Rodrigues Coelho (ca. 15551635) was a Portuguese organist and composer. He is the first important Iberian keyboard composer since Cabezón. Coelho was born in Elvas around 1555 and probably received early education at the Elvas Cathedral. ...

(c. 1555–c. 1635) *

Paolo Quagliati Paolo Quagliati (c. 1555 – 16 November 1628) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era and a member of the Roman School of composers. He was a transitional figure between the late Renaissance style and the earliest Baroque and was o ...

(c. 1555–1628) *

Alonso Lobo Alonso Lobo (February 25, 1555 (baptised) – April 5, 1617) was a Spanish composer of the late Renaissance. Although not as famous as Tomás Luis de Victoria, he was highly regarded at the time, and Victoria himself considered him to be his e ...

(1555–1617) *

Johannes Nucius Johannes Nucius (also Nux, Nucis) (c. 1556 – March 25, 1620) was a German composer and music theorist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Although isolated from most of the major centers of musical activity, he was a polished compo ...

(c. 1556–1620) *

Thomas Morley Thomas Morley (1557 – early October 1602) was an English composer, theorist, singer and organist of the Renaissance. He was one of the foremost members of the English Madrigal School. Referring to the strong Italian influence on the Englis ...

(1557–1602) *

Carolus Luython Carolus Luython (French: ''Charles Luython''; 1557 – 2 August 1620) was a late Renaissance composer of the "fifth generation" of the Franco-Flemish school.Ignace Bossuyt De Guillaume Dufay a Roland de Lassus: Les tres riches heures de la polyphoni ...

(1557–1620) *

Jacques Mauduit Jacques Mauduit (16 September 1557 – 21 August 1627) was a French composer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the most innovative French composers of the late 16th century, combining voices and instruments in new ways, and importing som ...

(1557–1627) *

Giovanni Croce Giovanni Croce (; also Ioanne a Cruce Clodiensis, Zuanne Chiozotto; 1557 – 15 May 1609) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance, of the Venetian School. He was particularly prominent as a madrigalist, one of the few among the Venetian ...

(c. 1557–1609) *

Alfonso Fontanelli Alfonso Fontanelli (15 February 1557 – 11 February 1622) was an Italian composer, writer, diplomat, courtier, and nobleman of the late Renaissance. He was one of the leading figures in the musically progressive Ferrara school in the late 16th ce ...

(1557–1622) *

Wojciech Długoraj Wojciech Długoraj (c. 1557 - after 1619), also called Wiecesław Długoraj, Adalbert Długoraj and Gostinensis, was a Polish Renaissance composer and lutenist. Biography His birthplace is unknown, with Polish Gostyń and Ukrainian Gostynets ...

(1557–after 1619) *

Nathaniel Giles Nathaniel Giles (1558 – 1633 or 1634) was an English Renaissance organist and composer. He was the organist for Worcester Cathedral and wrote Anglican anthems. While Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal he took over Blackfriars Theatre in ...

(1558–1634) * Matthew Jeffries (1558–1615) *

Ferdinando Richardson Ferdinando Richardson (also known as Sir Ferdinando Heyborne) (c. 1558–1618) was an English composer, musician, and courtier. He was a pupil of Thomas Tallis, and various works for the keyboard by him survive in the manuscript collection know ...

(1558–1618) *

Richard Carlton Richard Carlton (c. 1558 – c. 1638) was an English composer and vicar. He is known mainly for his madrigals and was a contemporary of John Wilbye. Life and career Born c. 1558, Richard Carlton graduated from Clare College, Cambridge in ...

(1558–1638) * Philippus Schoendorff (1558–1617) *

Giovanni Bassano Giovanni Bassano (c. 1561 – 3 September 1617) was an Italian composer associated with the Venetian School of composers and a cornettist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was a key figure in the development of the instrumental en ...

(c. 1558–1617) *

Scipione Stella Scipione Stella (1558 or 1559 – May 20, 1622) was a Neapolitan composer. He is to be distinguished from another member of the circle of Carlo Gesualdo, Scipione Dentice.John Walter Hill Roman monody, cantata, and opera from the circles around Ca ...

(1558/1559–1622) * Richard Allison (1560/1570–before 1610) *

Felice Anerio Felice Anerio (26 or 27 September 1614) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, and a member of the Roman School of composers. He was the older brother of another important, and somewhat more progressive composer ...

(1560–1614) *

Giulio Belli Giulio Belli (c. 1560 – 1621 or later) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance music, Renaissance and early Baroque music, Baroque eras. He was a prolific composer during the transitional time between the two musical eras, and worked in m ...

(c. 1560–1621 or later) *

William Brade William Brade (1560 – 26 February 1630) was an English composer, violinist, and viol player of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, mainly active in northern Germany. He was the first Englishman to write a canzona, an Italian form ...

(1560–1630) * Abraham Blondet (1560–1634) * William Cobbold (1560–1639) * Nicolas Gistou (1560-1609) * James Harding (1560–1626) *

Diomedes Cato Diomedes Cato (1560 to 1565 – d.1627 in Gdansk) was an Italian-born composer and lute player, who lived and worked entirely in Poland and Lithuania. He is known mainly for his instrumental music. He mixed the style of the late Renaissance with ...

(c. 1560/1565–1618) *

Camillo Lambardi Camillo is an Italian masculine given name, descended from Latin Camillus. Its Slavic cognate is Kamil. People with the name include: * Camillo Agrippa, Italian Renaissance fencer, architect, engineer and mathematician * Camillo Almici (1714� ...

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Giovanni Bernardino Nanino Giovanni Bernardino Nanino (ca. 1560 – 1623) was an Italian composer, teacher and singing master of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, and a leading member of the Roman School of composers. He was the younger brother of the some ...

(c. 1560–1623) *

Peter Philips Peter Philips (also ''Phillipps'', ''Phillips'', ''Pierre Philippe'', ''Pietro Philippi'', ''Petrus Philippus''; ''c.''1560–1628) was an eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest exiled to Flanders. He was one of the greatest ke ...

(c. 1560–1628) *

Hieronymus Praetorius Hieronymus Praetorius (10 August 1560 – 27 January 1629) was a Northern German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque whose polychoral motets in 8 to 20 voices are intricate and vividly expressive. Some of his organ ...

(1560–1629) *

August Nörmiger August Nörmiger (ca. 15601613) was a German composer and court organist in Dresden. He was born and died in Dresden. The main source for Nörmiger's compositions is the manuscript Organ tabulature "Tabulaturbuch auff dem Instrumente", which he c ...

(1560–1613) *

Thomas Robinson Thomas, Tom or Tommy Robinson may refer to: Artists * Thomas Robinson (composer) (c. 1560 – after 1609), English composer and music teacher * Thomas Heath Robinson (1869–1954), British book illustrator Politicians * Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron ...

(1560–1610) *

Lodovico Grossi da Viadana Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (usually Lodovico Viadana, though his family name was Grossi; c. 1560 – 2 May 1627) was an Italian composer, teacher, and Franciscan friar of the Order of Friars Minor Observants. He was the first significant figur ...

(c. 1560–1627) *

Scipione Dentice Scipione Dentice (29 January 1560 – 21 April 1633) was a Neapolitan keyboard composer. He is to be distinguished from his colleague and exact contemporary Scipione Stella, a member of Carlo Gesualdo's circle. He is also to be distinguished f ...

(1560–1635) *

Carlo Gesualdo Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa ( – 8 September 1613) was Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza. As a composer he is known for writing madrigals and pieces of sacred music that use a chromatic language not heard again until the late 19th century ...

(1560–1613) *

Ruggiero Giovannelli Ruggiero Giovannelli (c. 1560 – 7 January 1625) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was a member of the Roman School, and succeeded Palestrina at St. Peter's. Life He was born in Velletri, near Rom ...

(c. 1560–1625) * Antonio II Verso (1560–1621) *

Leone Leoni :''For the early 17th-century composer, see Leone Leoni (composer)''. Leone Leoni (ca. 1509 – 22 July 1590) was an Italian sculptor of international outlook who travelled in Italy, Germany, Austria, France, Spain and the Netherlands. Leoni is re ...

(1560–1627) * Petrus de Drusina (1560–1611) *

Juan Esquivel Barahona Juan eEsquivel Barahona (c. 1560 – after 1623) was the most prominent of the last generation of Spanish church composers of the Renaissance era. Although he never served in one of the major Spanish cathedrals, his music was known throughout Spai ...

(1560–after 1625) * Elias Mertel (1561–1626) * Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia (1561–1627) *

Jacopo Peri Jacopo Peri (20 August 156112 August 1633), known under the pseudonym Il Zazzerino, was an Italian composer and singer of the transitional period between the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and is often called the inventor of opera. He wrote the ...

(1561–1633) *

Francesco Usper Francesco Usper (real name Spongia or Sponga) (1 November 1561 – 24 February 1641),New Grove: Usper (Sponga, Spongia, Sponza), Francesco, b. ca. 1560/61, Rovigno (now Rovinj), Istria, d. Feb. 24, 1641, Venice; Italian composer, organist, and prie ...

, or ''Francesco Sponga'' (1561–1641) *

John Bull John Bull is a national personification of the United Kingdom in general and England in particular, especially in political cartoons and similar graphic works. He is usually depicted as a stout, middle-aged, country-dwelling, jolly and matter- ...

(1562–1628) *

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ( ; April or May, 1562 – 16 October 1621) was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. He was among the first major keyboard compo ...

(1562–1621) *

Andreas Raselius Andreas Raselius, also known as Andreas Rasel (c. 1563 – 6 January 1602) was a German composer and ''kapellmeister'' during the Renaissance. He worked for much of his career as a teacher and cantor in Regensburg, before being appointed as the cour ...

(1562–1602) *

Jean Titelouze Jean (''Jehan'') Titelouze (c. 1562/63 – 24 October 1633) was a French Catholic priest, composer, poet and organist of the early Baroque period. He was a canon and organist at Rouen Cathedral. His style was firmly rooted in the Renaissance vo ...

(1562/1563–1633) *

John Dowland John Dowland (c. 1563 – buried 20 February 1626) was an English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer. He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as "Come, heavy sleep", " Come again", "Flow my tears", " I saw my Lady weepe", ...

(1563–1626) *

Giles Farnaby Giles Farnaby (c. 1563 – November 1640) was an English composer and virginalist whose music spans the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque period. Life Giles Farnaby was born about 1563, perhaps in Truro, Cornwall or near London. ...

(c. 1563–1640) *

John Milton John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual. His 1667 epic poem '' Paradise Lost'', written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political ...

(1563–1647) *

Cornelis Verdonck Cornelis Verdonck (1563 – 5 July 1625) was a Flanders, Flemish composer of the late Renaissance music, Renaissance. He was one of the last members of the Dutch School (music), Franco-Flemish school of polyphony, and was a notable composer of ma ...

(1563–1625) *

John Danyel John Danyel or John Daniel (Baptized 6 November 1564 – c. 1626) was an English lute player and songwriter. He was born in Wellow, Somerset, and was the younger brother of poet Samuel Daniel. His surviving works include "Coy Daphne Fled", about ...

(1564–1626) *

Hans Leo Hassler Hans Leo Hassler (in German, Hans Leo Haßler) (baptized 26 October 1564 – 8 June 1612) was a German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, elder brother of less known composer Jakob Hassler. He was born in Nü ...

(1564–1612) *

Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic Kryštof is a Czech name, equivalent to English Christopher. It may refer to: *Jakub Kryštof Rad (1799–1871), Swiss-born Czech entrepreneur who invented the sugar cubes in 1841 as director of a sugar factory in Dačice, Moravia *Kryštof Harant ...

(1564–1621) *

Giulio Cesare Martinengo Giulio Cesare Martinengo (; – 10 July 1613) was an Italians, Italian composer and teacher of the late Renaissance music, Renaissance and early Baroque music, Baroque Venetian School (music), Venetian School. He was the predecessor to Claudio ...

(1564/1568–1613) * John Hilton (1565–1609?) *

Michael Cavendish Michael Cavendish (c. 1565 – 1628) was an English composer of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. A grandson of the writer George Cavendish and second cousin to Arabella Stuart, he spent much time at court and was for a time composer t ...

(1565–1628) * John Farmer (1565–1605) *

George Kirbye George Kirbye (c. 1565 – buried 6 October 1634) was an English composer of the late Tudor period and early Jacobean era. He was one of the members of the English Madrigal School, but also composed sacred music. Little is known of the de ...

(1565–1634) *

William Leighton Sir William Leighton (; c. 1565–1622) was a Jacobean composer and editor who published ''The Teares and Lamentacions of a Sorrowfull Soule'' (1614). He was also a politician. Family Leighton was first son of William Leighton (died 1607) of Pl ...

(1565–1622) * Leonard Woodson (1565–1641) *

Gregor Aichinger Gregor Aichinger (c. 1565 – 21 January 1628) was a German composer. Life He was organist to the Fugger family of Augsburg in 1584. In 1599 he went for a two-year visit to Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 75 ...

(c. 1565–1628) *

Duarte Lobo Duarte Lobo (ca. 1565 – 24 September 1646; Latinized as ''Eduardus Lupus'') was a Portuguese composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque. He was one of the most famous Portuguese composers of the time, together with Filipe de Magalh ...

(c. 1565–1646) * Erasmo Marotta (1565–1641) *

Ascanio Mayone Ascanio Mayone (ca. 1565 – 1627) was a Neapolitan composer and harpist. He trained as a pupil of Giovanni de Macque in Naples, and worked at Santissima Annunziata Maggiore there as organist from 1593 and ''maestro di cappella'' from 1621; h ...

(c. 1565–1627) * Giovanni Pietro Flaccomio (1565–1617) *

Simone Molinaro Simone Molinaro (c. 1570 – May 1636)''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart''. Personenteil, Band 12, Kassel 2004, p. 308. was a composer of the late Renaissance in Italy. He was especially renowned for his lute music. Life and career Molina ...

(1565–1615) *

Francis Pilkington Francis Pilkington (ca. 1565 – 1638) was an English classical composer, lutenist and singer, of the Renaissance and Baroque period. Pilkington received a B.Mus. degree from Oxford in 1595. In 1602 he became a ''singing man'' at Chester Cathed ...

(c. 1565–1638) * Manuel Cardoso (1566–1650) *

Gaspar Fernandes Gaspar Fernandes (sometimes written ''Gaspar Fernández'', the Spanish version of his name) (1566–1629) was a Portuguese-Mexican composer and organist active in the cathedrals of Santiago de Guatemala (present-day Antigua Guatemala) and Puebla de ...

, or ''Fernández'' (1566–1629) *

Alessandro Piccinini Alessandro Piccinini (1566 – 1638), was an Italian lutenist and composer. Piccinini was born in Bologna into a musical family: his father Leonardo Maria Piccinini taught lute playing to Alessandro as well as his brothers Girolamo (d. 1615) and ...

(1566–1638) *

Lucia Quinciani Lucia Quinciani (c. 1566, ''fl.'' 1611) was an Italian composer. She is the earliest known published female composer of monody.Thomas W. Bridges. "Lucia Quinciani", ''Grove Music Online'', ed. L. Macy (accessed November 5, 2006)grovemusic.com(subs ...

(born c. 1566; ''fl.'' 1611) *

Thomas Campion Thomas Campion (sometimes spelled Campian; 12 February 1567 – 1 March 1620) was an English composer, poet, and physician. He was born in London, educated at Cambridge, studied law in Gray's inn. He wrote over a hundred lute songs, masques for ...

(1567–1620) *

Christoph Demantius Johann Christoph Demantius (15 December 1567 – 20 April 1643) was a German composer, music theorist, writer and poet. He was an exact contemporary of Monteverdi, and represented a transitional phase in German Lutheran music from the polypho ...

(1567–1643) *

Jean-Baptiste Besard Jean-Baptiste Besard (c.1567 – c.1625) was a bisontin lutenist, composer and anthologist who lived and worked in the Holy Roman Empire.Julia Sutton: ''The Lute Instructions of Jean-Baptiste Besard'', in: ''The Musical Quarterly'' vol. 51, no. 2 ...

(1567–1625) *

Nicolas Formé Nicolas Formé (Paris 26 April 1567 27 May 1638) was a French composer. In 1587, aged 20, Formé joined the choir of the Sainte-Chapelle, but was excluded from the fraternity for drunkenness and womanising. He was reinstated in 1592, to the Chap ...

(1567–1638) *

Girolamo Giacobbi Girolamo Giacobbi (baptized on 10 August 1567 – before 13 February 1629) was an Italians, Italian choirmaster, conductor, and composer. Life Giocobbi was born in Bologna in 1567. He had been a choir boy at the Basilica of San Petronio in B ...

(1567–1629) *

Joachim van den Hove Joachim van den Hove (1567? – 1620) was a Low Countries, Flemish/Dutch composer and a lutenist. He composed works for lute solo and for lute and voice. Moreover, he wrote many arrangements for lute of Italian, French, and English vocal and i ...

(c. 1567–1620) *

René Mesangeau René Mésangeau (or Mézangeau, Mesangio, Mésengeot, Mesengé, Meziniot, Meschanson, Mesangior, Mazagau, Merengeau, Messangior, Mezanio, and Mezengau) (floruit, fl. 15671638) was a French composer and lutenist. He is considered to be one of the fi ...

(''fl.'' 1567–1638) * Lorenzo Allegri (1567–1648) *

Claudio Monteverdi Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered ...

(1567–1643) *

Bartolomeo Barbarino Bartolomeo Barbarino (known as "il Pesarino") (c. 1568c. 1617 or later) was an Italian composer and singer of the early Baroque era. He was a virtuoso falsettist, and one of the most enthusiastic composers of the new style of monody. Life Nothing ...

(c. 1568–1617 or later) *

Philip Rosseter Philip Rosseter (1568 – 5 May 1623) was an English composer and musician, as well as a theatrical manager. His family seems to have been from Somerset or Lincolnshire, he may have been employed with the Countess of Sussex by 1596, and he was l ...

(1568–1623) *

Adriano Banchieri Adriano Banchieri (Bologna, 3 September 1568 – Bologna, 1634) was an Italian composer, music theorist, organist and poet of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He founded the Accademia dei Floridi in Bologna. Biography He wa ...

(1568–1634) *

Christian Erbach Christian Erbach (ca. 1568 – 14 June 1635) was a German organist and composer. Erbach was born in Gau-Algesheim, Mainz-Bingen, now in the Rhineland-Palatinate Bundesland, and began to study musical composition at a considerably young age. Aside ...

(c. 1568–1635) * Joan Baptista Comes (1568–1643) *

Edward Gibbons Edward Gibbons ( bapt. 21 March 1568 – in or before July 1650) was an English choirmaster and composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. Born in Cambridge, Gibbons's youth is completely unknown, but he later received degrees ...

(1568–1650) *

Richard Gibbs Richard "Ribbs" Gibbs (born December 5, 1955) is an American film composer and music producer whose credits include ''Dr. Dolittle'', ''Big Momma's House'', ''Queen of the Damned'', the television series ''Battlestar Galactica'' and the first s ...

(1568–1650) *

Giovanni Francesco Anerio Giovanni Francesco Anerio (7 July 1569 - 11 June 1630) was an Italian composer of the Roman School, of the very late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was the younger brother of Felice Anerio. Giovanni's principal importance in music histor ...

(1569–1630) *

Tobias Hume Tobias Hume (possibly 1579 – 16 April 1645) was a Scottish composer, viol player and soldier. Little is known of his life. Some have suggested that he was born in 1579 because he was admitted to the London Charterhouse in 1629, a prerequisit ...

(1569–1645) * Ottavio Vernizzi (1569–1649) *

Orazio Bassani Orazio Bassani (Cento, Ferrara before 1570 - Parma 1615), also known as "Orazio della Viola", was an Italian viola-da-gambist. He was celebrated for his instrumental embellishments of madrigals, a few of which survive in manuscript sources. He wa ...

, "''Orazio della Viola''" (before 1570–1615) *

Thomas Bateson Thomas Bateson, ''Batson'' or ''Betson'' (c. 15701630) was an Anglo-Irish writer of madrigals in the early 17th century. Life He is said to have been organist of Chester Cathedral in 1599, and is believed to have been the first musical graduate ...

(1570–1630) *

Benjamin Cosyn Benjamin Cosyn (also ''Cosens'', ''Cousins'' or ''Cowsins''; c.1580 - c. 14 September 1653) was an English composer, organist and virginalist. He was organist of St Laurence's Church, Ludlow (1621 to 1622), Dulwich College (1622 to 1624) and Charte ...

(1570–1652 or later) *

Giovanni Paolo Cima Giovanni Paolo Cima (c. 1570 – 1630) was an Italian composer and organist in the early Baroque era. He was a contemporary of Claudio Monteverdi and Girolamo Frescobaldi, though not as well known (then or now) as either of those men. Cima ca ...

(c. 1570–1622) *

Peeter Cornet Peeter Cornet (''Pierre, Pietro, Peter, Pieter'') (ca. 1570-80 – 27 March 1633) was a Flemish composer and organist of the early Baroque period. Although few of his compositions survive, he is widely considered one of the best keyboard composers ...

(c. 1570/1580–1633) *

Pierre Guédron Pierre Guédron (c. 1570 in Châteaudun – c. 1620 in Paris), was a French singer and composer known for writing ''Air de cour, Airs de cour'' (including ''Cessés mortels de soupirer''). Guédron's ''Est-ce Mars'' (1613) was especially popular a ...

(c. 1570–c. 1620) *

Paul Peuerl Paul Peuerl (also ''Bäurl, Beuerlin, Bäwerl, Agricola, Peyerl''; 13 June 1570 (baptised), in Stuttgart – after 1625) was a German organist, organ builder, renovator and repairer, and composer of instrumental music. From November 1601 he was o ...

(1570–1625) *

Joan Pau Pujol Joan Pau Pujol (; baptized 18 June 1570 – 17 May 1626) was a Catalan and Spanish composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque. While best known for his sacred music, he also wrote popular secular music. Life Pujol was born ...

(1570–1626) *

Salamone Rossi Salamone Rossi or Salomone Rossi ( he, סלומונה רוסי or שלמה מן האדומים) (Salamon, Schlomo; de' Rossi) (ca. 1570 – 1630) was an Italian Jewish violinist and composer. He was a transitional figure between the late Ita ...

(c. 1570–1630) * Girolamo Bartei (c. 1570–c. 1618) * Claudia Sessa (c. 1570–c. 1617/1619) * Giovanni Battista Fontana (c. 1571–c. 1630) * Thomas Lupo (1571–1627) *

Filipe de Magalhães Filipe de Magalhães (c. 1571–1652) was a Portuguese composer of sacred polyphony. Life Filipe de Magalhães was born in Azeitão, Portugal, in 1571. He studied music at the Cathedral of Évora with Manuel Mendes where he was a colleague of ...

(c. 1571–1652) *

Giovanni Picchi Giovanni Picchi (1571 or 1572 – 17 May 1643) was an Italian composer, organist, lutenist, and harpsichordist of the early Baroque era. He was a late follower of the Venetian School, and was influential in the development and differentiation ...

(1571–1643) *

Michael Praetorius Michael Praetorius (probably 28 September 1571 – 15 February 1621) was a German composer, organist, and music theorist. He was one of the most versatile composers of his age, being particularly significant in the development of musical forms ba ...

(c. 1571–1621) * John Ward (1571–1638) * Edward Johnson (1572–1601) *

Daniel Bacheler Daniel Bacheler, also variously spelt Bachiler, Batchiler or Batchelar, (baptized 16 March 1572 – buried 29 January 1619) was an English lutenist and composer. Of all the English lutenist-composers, he is now credited as probably being th ...

(1572–1619) *

Melchior Borchgrevinck Melchior Borchgrevinck (1572 – 20 December 1632) was a Dutch-Danish musician, composer, and court Kapellmeister. He was born to Bonaventura Borchgrevinck, a Dutch-Danish musician and court Kapellmeister. He had three siblings: two sisters a ...

(1572-1632) *

Martin Peerson Martin Peerson (or Pearson, Pierson, Peereson) (between 1571 and 1573 – December 1650 or January 1651 and buried 16 January 1651) was an English composer, organist and virginalist. Despite Roman Catholic leanings at a time when it was illegal n ...

(1572–1651) *

Thomas Tomkins Thomas Tomkins (1572 – 9 June 1656) was a Welsh-born composer of the late Tudor and early Stuart period. In addition to being one of the prominent members of the English Madrigal School, he was a skilled composer of keyboard and consort mus ...

(1572–1656) *

Moritz von Hessen-Kassel Maurice of Hesse-Kassel (german: Moritz; 25 May 1572 – 15 March 1632), also called Maurice the Learned or Moritz, was the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) in the Holy Roman Empire from 1592 to 1627. Life Maurice was born in Kassel ...

(1572–1632) * Erasmus Widmann (1572–1634) * Salvatore Sacco (1572–1622) *

Ellis Gibbons Ellis Gibbons ( bapt. 30 November 1573 – 14? May 1603) was an English composer of the late Renaissance who was associated with the English Madrigal School. Born in Cambridge to a musical family, Gibbons was the second surviving son of Wi ...

(1573–1603) *

Géry de Ghersem Géry de Ghersem (also Géry Gersem) (1573 to 1575 – 25 May 1630) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance, active both in Spain at the court of Philip II and Philip III, and in his native from Low countries. He was a prolific and ...

(1573/1575–1630) * Cesarina Ricci ''de Tingoli'' (born c. 1573, ''fl.'' 1597) * Claudio Pari (1574–after 1619) *

Francesco Rasi Francesco Rasi (14 May 1574 – 30 November 1621) was an Italian composer, singer (tenor), chitarrone player, and poet. Rasi was born in Arezzo. He studied at the University of Pisa and in 1594 he was studying with Giulio Caccini. He may have bee ...

(1574–1621) * Gabriel Bataille (1574–1630) *

John Wilbye John Wilbye (baptized 7 March 1574September 1638) was an English madrigal composer. Early life and education The son of a tanner, he was born at Brome, Suffolk, England. (Brome is near Diss.) Career Wilbye received the patronage of the Cornwa ...

(1574–1638) *

Andreas Hakenberger Andreas Hakenberger ( Krzemień (Kremmin), Pomerania, 1574–1627) was a German composer, and worked in Gdańsk beginning in 1608. Works, editions and recordings *German madrigals - ''Neue deutsche Gesange nach Art der welschen Madrigalien'' for f ...

(1574–1627) * John Bennet (1575–after 1614) *

Vittoria Aleotti Vittoria Aleotti (c. 1575 – after 1620), believed to be the same as Raffaella Aleotta (c. 1570 – after 1646) was an Italian Augustinian nun, a composer and organist. Early life She was born in Ferrara to the prominent architect Giovanni Batti ...

(c. 1575–after 1620) *

Abundio Antonelli Abundio is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Abundio Martínez (1875–1914), Mexican musician and composer * Abundio Peregrino García (born 1953), Mexican politician *Abundio Sagástegui Alva Abundio Sagástegui Alva (1932� ...

(c. 1575?–c. 1629) *

Robert Ballard Robert Duane Ballard (born June 30, 1942) is an American retired Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is most noted for his work in underwater archaeology: maritime archaeology and archaeology of ...

(c. 1575–1645) * Estêvão de Brito (1575–1641) *

John Coprario John Coprario (c. 1570 – 1626), also known as Giovanni Coprario or Coperario, was an English composer and viol player. According to later commentators such as John Playford and Roger North, he changed his name from either Cowper or Cooper ...

, or ''John Cooper'' (c. 1575–1626) *

Ignazio Donati Ignazio Donati (c. 1570 – 21 January 1638) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era. He was one of the pioneers of the style of the concertato motet. Biography Ignazio Donati was born in Casalmaggiore (now in the Province of Cremona ...

(c. 1575–1638) *

Daniel Farrant Daniel Farrant (1575–1651) was an English composer, viol player and instrument maker. He invented types of citterns, the poliphant and the stump, along with the early lyra viol. He is also credited with the invention of the early viola d'amore. ...

(c. 1575–1651) * Alfonso Ferrabosco ''the younger'' (c. 1575–1628) *

Michelagnolo Galilei Michelagnolo Galilei (sometimes spelled Michelangelo; 18 December 1575 – 3 January 1631) was an Italian composer and lutenist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, active mainly in Bavaria and Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He ...

(1575–1631) *

Ennemond Gaultier Ennemond Gaultier (Gaultier le Vieux, Gaultier de Lyon; also spelled ''Gautier'' or ''Gauthier'') (c. 157517 December 1651) was a French lutenist and composer. He was one of the masters of the 17th century French lute school. Gaultier was born i ...

, ''le Vieux Gaultier'' (1575–1651) * (c. 1575–1627?) *

Léonard de Hodémont Léonard (Collet) de Hodémont (1575–1639),Other sources document Liège as birthplace; see: Thierry Levaux: ''Dictionnaire des compositeurs de Belgique du moyen âge à nos jours'', Ohain-Lasne: Éditions Art in Belgium sprl, 2006. 736 p., ...

(c. 1575–1639) *

Esteban López Morago Esteban () is a Spanish male given name, derived from Greek Στέφανος (Stéphanos) and related to the English names Steven and Stephen. Although in its original pronunciation the accent is on the penultimate syllable, English-speakers tend t ...

, or ''Estêvão Lopes Morago'' (c. 1575–after 1630) *

Giovanni Priuli Giovanni Priuli (or Prioli,Roche/Saunders, Grove online ca. 1575–1626) was a Venetian composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. A late member of the Venetian School, and a contemporary of Claudio Monteverdi, he wa ...

(c. 1575–1626) * Mateo Romero, or ''Mathieu Rosmarin'' (c. 1575–1647) * William Simmes (c. 1575–c. 1625) *

Giovanni Maria Trabaci Giovanni Maria Trabaci (ca. 1575 – 31 December 1647) was an Italian composer and organist. He was a prolific composer, with some 300 surviving works preserved in more than 10 publications; he was especially important for his keyboard music. B ...

(c. 1575–1647) *

Thomas Weelkes Thomas Weelkes (baptised 25 October 1576 – 30 November 1623) was an English composer and organist. He became organist of Winchester College in 1598, moving to Chichester Cathedral. His works are chiefly vocal, and include madrigals, anthe ...

(1576–1623) * John Maynard (1577–between 1614 and 1633) * Robert Jones (1577–1617) *

Stefano Bernardi Stefano (or Steffano) Bernardi (18 March 1580 – 15 February 1637), also known as "il Moretto", was an Italian priest, composer and music theorist. Born in Verona and ''maestro di cappella'' at the Verona Cathedral from 1611 to 1622, he later mo ...

(c. 1577–1637) *

Antonio Brunelli Antonio Brunelli (20 December 1577 in Pisa – 19 November 1630 in Pisa) was an Italian composer and theorist of the early Baroque music, Baroque period. He was a student of Giovanni Maria Nanino and served as the organist at San Miniato in T ...

(1577–1630) * Sulpitia Cesis (b. 1577; ''fl.'' 1619) *

Agostino Agazzari Agostino Agazzari (2 December 1578 – 10 April 1640) was an Italian composer and music theorist. Life Agazzari was born in Siena to an aristocratic family. After working in Rome, as a teacher at the Roman College, he returned to Siena in 1607, b ...

(1578–1640) *

John Amner John Amner (1579–1641) was an English composer. A composer of sacred works, Amner was born in Ely and had a close association with Ely Cathedral, even before his employment there as ''Informator choristarum'' (1610–1641), through his rela ...

(1579–1641) *

Melchior Franck Melchior Franck (c. 1579 – 1 June 1639) was a German composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was a hugely prolific composer of Protestant church music, especially motets, and assisted in bringing the stylistic innovations ...

(c. 1579–1639) *

Adriana Basile Adriana Basile (c. 1580 – c. 1640) was an Italian composer and singer. Life She was born in Posillipo, and died in Rome. From 1610, she worked for the Gonzagas in Mantua. Members of her family also worked for the court, including her brothers ...

(c. 1580–c. 1640) * Domenico Brunetti (c. 1580–1646) * Andrea Cima, or ''Giovanni Andrea Cima'' (c. 1580–after 1627) * Jacques Cordier (c. 1580–before 1655) *

Richard Dering Richard Dering (''c.'' 1580–1630) — also Deering, Dearing, Diringus, etc. — was an English Renaissance composer during the era of late Tudor music. He is noted for his pioneering use of compositional techniques which anticipated the advent ...

(c. 1580–1630) * Michael East (1580–1648) * Thomas Ford (c. 1580–1648) *

Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (also: ''Johann(es) Hieronymus Kapsberger'' or ''Giovanni Geronimo Kapsperger''; c. 1580 – 17 January 1651) was an Austrian-Italy, Italian virtuoso performer and composer of the early Baroque period. A prolific and h ...

, or ''Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger'' (c. 1580–1651) * John Lugg (1580–1647/1655) * Hans Nielsen (1580-1626) *

François Richard François Richard (ca. 15851650) was a French composer of ''airs de cour.'' His ''Airs de cour a quatre parties'' (1637) mentions the pleasure Louis XIII Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King ...

(1580–1650) *

Johann Stobäus Johann Stobäus (6 July 158011 September 1646) was a North German composer and lutenist. Life Stobäus was born at Graudenz, now in Poland. From 1599 to 1608 he was a pupil of Johannes Eccard, the Kapellmeister of Königsberg. In 1601 he join ...

(1580–1646) *

Vincenzo Ugolini Vincenzo Ugolini (1 November 1578; 6 May 1638) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era and of the Roman School. Life Born in Perugia, he was first a ''puer chori'' (boy soprano) at San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome under Giovanni Bernardino ...

(c. 1580–1638) *

Bellerofonte Castaldi Bellerofonte Castaldi (1580 – 27 September 1649) was an Italian composer, poet and lutenist. Castaldi was born in Collegara, near Modena. He wrote male parts in his songs for tenors as he was opposed to the practice of castrati or male falsett ...

(c. 1581–1649) *

Johannes Jeep Johannes Jeep (pronounced "Yape"; also Johann or Jepp; 1581/1582 – 19 November 1644) was a German organist, choirmaster and composer. Biography Jeep, who was born in Dransfeld, Germany, is remembered for his choral writing. He collected his ...

(1581/1582–1644) *

Johann Staden Johann Staden (baptized 2 July 1581 – 15 November 1634) was a German Baroque organist and composer. He is best known for establishing the so-called ''Nuremberg School''. Life He was the son of Hans Staden and Elisabeth Löbelle. The exact ...

(1581–1634) *

Gregorio Allegri Gregorio Allegri (17 February 1652) was a Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic priest and Italy, Italian composer of the Roman School and brother of Domenico Allegri; he was also a singer. He was born"Allegri, Gregorio" in ''Chambers's Encyclop ...

(1582–1652) *

Severo Bonini Severo Bonini (23 December 1582 – 5 December 1663) was an Italian composer, organ (music), organist, and writer on music. He was born in Florence and became a Benedictine monk. He studied singing with Giulio Caccini. He served as organist in Fo ...

(1582–1663) *

Marco da Gagliano Marco da Gagliano (1 May 1582 – 25 February 1643) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era. He was important in the early history of opera and the development of the solo and concerted madrigal. Life He was born in Florence and li ...

(1582–1643) *

Sigismondo d'India Sigismondo d'India (c. 1582 – before 19 April 1629) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the most accomplished contemporaries of Monteverdi, and wrote music in many of the same forms as the more ...

(c. 1582–1629) *

Thomas Ravenscroft Thomas Ravenscroft ( – 1635) was an English musician, theorist and editor, notable as a composer of rounds and catches, and especially for compiling collections of British folk music. Little is known of Ravenscroft's early life. He prob ...

(c. 1582–c. 1635) *

Thomas Simpson Thomas Simpson Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (20 August 1710 – 14 May 1761) was a British mathematician and inventor known for the :wikt:eponym, eponymous Simpson's rule to approximate definite integrals. The attribution, as often in mathe ...

(1582–1628) *

Giovanni Valentini Giovanni Valentini (ca. 1582 – 29/30 April 1649) was an Italian Baroque composer, poet and keyboard virtuoso. Overshadowed by his contemporaries, Claudio Monteverdi and Heinrich Schütz, Valentini is practically forgotten today, although he occ ...

(c. 1582–1649) * Paolo Agostino, or ''Agostini'' (c. 1583–1629) *

Girolamo Frescobaldi Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi (; also Gerolamo, Girolimo, and Geronimo Alissandro; September 15831 March 1643) was an Italian composer and virtuoso keyboard player. Born in the Duchy of Ferrara, he was one of the most important composers of k ...

(1583–1643) *

Orlando Gibbons Orlando Gibbons ( bapt. 25 December 1583 – 5 June 1625) was an English composer and keyboard player who was one of the last masters of the English Virginalist School and English Madrigal School. The best known member of a musical famil ...

(1583–1625) *

Robert Johnson Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911August 16, 1938) was an American blues musician and songwriter. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that has influenced later generati ...

(c. 1583–1634) *

Johann Daniel Mylius Johann Daniel Mylius (c. 15831642) was a composer for the lute, and writer on alchemy. Born at Wetter in present-day Hesse, Germany, he went on to study theology and medicine at the University of Marburg. He was the brother-in-law and pupil of ...

(1583–1642) *

Mogens Pedersøn Mogens Pedersøn (also ''Mogens Pedersen'', ''Magno Petreo''; c. 1583 – January or February 1623) was a Danish instrumentalist and composer. He is considered the most important Danish-born composer before Buxtehude. Life Early in his career he e ...

(c. 1583–1623) *

Nicolas Vallet Nicolas Vallet (also ''Valet''; c. 1583 – c. 1642) was a French lutenist and composer who emigrated to the Dutch Republic. Vallet, a Huguenot, was born at Corbeny, Aisne, but fled around 1613 from France to the Netherlands for unknown reasons. I ...

(c. 1583–c. 1642) *

Michael Altenburg Michael Altenburg (27 May 1584 – 12 February 1640) was a German theologian and composer. Altenburg was born at Alach, near Erfurt. He began attending school in Erfurt in 1590; he began studying theology at the University of Erfurt in 1598, ...

(1584–1640) *

Antonio Cifra Antonio Cifra (1584? – 2 October 1629 in Loreto) was an Italian composer of the Roman School of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the significant transitional figures between the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and pro ...

(1584–1629) *

Francisco Correa de Arauxo Francisco Correa de Araujo (or Arauxo, or Acebedo) (1584–1654) was a Spanish organist, composer, and theorist of the late Renaissance. Life Correa de Araujo was born in Seville. Like most Spanish organists from this era, details of his life ...

(1584–1654) *

Daniel Friderici Daniel Friderici (1584 – 23 September 1638) was a German Cantor (church), cantor, Conducting, conductor, and composer. Life Friderici was born in Eichstaedt (today Querfurt) to a poor family and had been a choirboy in his younger years. He was t ...

(1584–1638) * (c. 1584–1671) *

Domenico Allegri Domenico Allegri (c. 1585 – 5 September 1629) was an Italian composer and singer of the early Baroque Roman School. He was the second son of the Milanese coachman Costantino Allegri, who lived in Rome with his family, and was a younger broth ...

(1585–1629) *

Antoine Boësset Antoine Boësset, Antoine Boesset or Anthoine de Boesset (1586 – 8 December 1643), sieur de Villedieu, was the superintendent of music at the Ancien Régime French court and a composer of secular music, particularly airs de cour. He and his fathe ...

, ''Sieur de Villedieu'' (1586–1643) * Jean de Bournonville (1585–1632) * Louis Constantin (c. 1585–1657) * Nicolò Corradini (c. 1585–1646) *

Andrea Falconieri Andrea Falconieri (1585 or 1586 – 1656), also known as Falconiero, was an Italian composer and lutenist from Naples. He resided in Parma from 1604 until 1614, and later moved to Rome, and then back to his native Naples, where in 1647 he bec ...

(1585–1656) * Johann Grabbe (1585–1655) *

Alessandro Grandi Alessandro Grandi (1590 – after June 1630, but in that year) was a northern Italy, Italian composer of the early Baroque music, Baroque era, writing in the new concertato style. He was one of the most inventive, influential, and popular compose ...

(1586–1630) *

Peter Hasse Peter (Petrus) Hasse (ca. 1585 – June 1640) was a German organist and composer, and member of the prominent musical Hasse family. The first written record of Hasse dates from his appointment as organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck, a post ...

(c. 1585–1640) *

Stefano Landi Stefano Landi (baptized 26 February 1587 – 28 October 1639) was an Italian composer and teacher of the early Baroque Roman School. He was an influential early composer of opera, and wrote the earliest opera on a historical subject: ''Il Sa ...

(1586–1639) * Nicolas Signac (1585–1645) *

Heinrich Schütz Heinrich Schütz (; 6 November 1672) was a German early Baroque composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as one of the most important composers of the 17th century. He ...

(1585–1672) *

Francesco Rognoni Francesco Rognoni fTaeggio (born in Milan second half of the 16th century – died after 1626) was an Italian composer. He was the son of Riccardo Rognoni and brother of Giovanni Domenico Rognoni Taeggio, both prominent Italian composers and mu ...

(1585–after 1626) *

Jacob Praetorius Jacob Praetorius or Schultz (8 February 158621 or 22 October 1651) was a German people, German Baroque composer and organist, and the son of Hieronymus Praetorius. His grandfather, the father of Hieronymus, Jacob Praetorius the Elder (died 1586) w ...

(1586–1651) *

Claudio Saracini Claudio Saracini (1 July 1586 – 20 September 1630) was an Italian composer, lutenist, and singer of the early Baroque era. He was one of the most famous and distinguished composers of monody. Life Saracini was born to a noble family, pr ...

(1586–1630) *

Johann Hermann Schein Johann Hermann Schein (20 January 1586 – 19 November 1630) was a German composer of the early Baroque era. He was Thomaskantor in Leipzig from 1615 to 1630. He was one of the first to import the early Italian stylistic innovations into German ...

(1586–1630) *

Paul Siefert Paul Siefert (variants: Syfert, Sivert, Sibert; 23 May 1586 – 6 May 1666) was a German composer and pipe organ, organist associated with the North German school. Biography He was born in Danzig (Gdańsk), Royal Prussia (a fief of the Crown of ...

(1586–1666) *

John Adson John Adson (c. 1587 – 29 June 1640) was an English musician and composer. Little is known about his early life; the first certain reference to him comes in 1604, when he was in service to Charles III, Duke of Lorraine as a cornett player. Som ...

(c. 1587–1640) *

Francesca Caccini Francesca Caccini (; 18 September 1587 – after 1641) was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. She was also known by the nickname "La Cecchina" , given to her by the Florentines and probably a ...

(1587–c. 1640) *

Ivan Lukačić Marko Ivan Lukačić (''Lucacich'' or ''Lucacih'','' Fr. Joannes de Sibinico'') (Šibenik, baptized 7 April 1587Note in the birth register of the Šibenik parish says: "D(ie) VII Aprillis (1587) Marchus filius ioannis lucacich baptizatus fuit per me ...

(c. 1587–1648) *

Samuel Scheidt Samuel Scheidt (baptised 3 November 1587 – 24 March 1654) was a German composer, organist and teacher of the early Baroque era. Life and career Scheidt was born in Halle, and after early studies there, he went to Amsterdam to study with ...

(1587–1654) * Guillaume Bouzignac (1587–1643) * Charles d'Ambleville (1588–1637) *

Walter Porter Walter Porter (c.1587–1659) was an English composer and church musician. He travelled to Italy to study under Monteverdi, and shows Italian influence in madrigals and his one surviving anthem. Life He was son of Henry Porter, who was musician ...

(1588–1659) * (1588–1671) * Johann Andreas Herbst (1588–1666) *

Nicholas Lanier Nicholas Lanier, sometimes Laniere (baptised 10 September 1588 – buried 24 February 1666) was an English composer and musician; the first to hold the title of Master of the King's Music from 1625 to 1666, an honour given to musicians of great ...

(1588–1666) *

Marin Mersenne Marin Mersenne, OM (also known as Marinus Mersennus or ''le Père'' Mersenne; ; 8 September 1588 – 1 September 1648) was a French polymath whose works touched a wide variety of fields. He is perhaps best known today among mathematicians for ...

(1588–1648) *

John Tomkins John Patrick Tomkins is an American who was convicted of sending several threatening letters and bomb-like devices to financial firms in the Midwest, Midwestern United States under the pseudonym The Bishop. A machinist and lifelong resident of Dubu ...

(1589–1638) * Guilielmus Messaus (1589–1640) * Francesco Turini (1589–1656) *

Caterina Assandra Caterina Assandra (c. 1590 – after 1618) was an Italian composer and Benedictine nun. In her surviving motet book, ''Motetti a due a tre voci op.2'', Assandra alludes to her birthplace being in the Province of Pavia. She became famous as an orga ...

(c. 1590–after 1618) * Artus Aux-Cousteaux (c. 1590–1656) *

Giovanni Pietro Berti Giovanni Pietro Berti (c. 1590–1638) was an Italian composer and organist of Saint Mark's, Venice. He was active in the first half of the century. Berti had a tenor A tenor is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lie ...

(c. 1590?–1638) * Hans Brachrogge (c. 1590-c. 1638) *

Dario Castello Dario Castello (Venice, bapt. 19 October 1602 - Venice 2 July 1631) was an Italian composer and violinist from the early Baroque period who worked and published in Venice. As a composer, he was a late member of the Venetian School and had a role ...

(c. 1590–c. 1658) *

Giovanni Martino Cesare Giovanni Martino Cesare (c. 1590 in Udine – 6 February 1667 in Munich) was a composer and cornett player.A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music - Page 108 Stewart Carter, Jeffery Kite-Powell - 2012 "At the Bavarian court in Munich, ...

(c. 1590–1667) * Andreas Chyliński, or ''Andrzej Chyliński'' (c. 1590–after 1635) *

Jacob van Eyck Jacob van Eyck ( , ; 26 March 1657) was a Dutch nobleman and blind musician. He was one of the best-known musicians of the Dutch Golden Age, working as a carillon player and technician, an organist, a recorder virtuoso, and a composer. He was ...

(c. 1590–1657) *

Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (ca. 15901664) was a Renaissance-style Spanish composer, most of whose career took place in Mexico. Life and career He was born in Málaga, Spain. He moved to Puebla, Mexico, in 1620. At the time New Spain was a vicer ...

(c. 1590–1664) * Adam Jarzębski (c. 1590–c. 1648) * Manuel Machado (c. 1590–1646) *

Carlo Milanuzzi Carlo Milanuzzi (c. 1590 – c. 1647) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era. Life Carlo Milanuzzi was born in Santa Natoglia, or Esanatoglia in the Marche region, to Milanuzzo and donna Felice, probably around 1590, but not after ...

(c. 1590–c. 1647) *

Johann Schop Johann Schop (ca. 1590 – 1644) was a German violinist and composer, much admired as a musician and a technician, who was a virtuoso and whose compositions for the violin set impressive technical demands for that area at that time. In 1756 ...

(c. 1590–1667) * Johannes Thesselius (c. 1590?–1643) *

Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (also "Lucretia") (3 July 1590 – 7 May 1662) was an Italian singer, organist, and composer. She entered the Camaldolese convent of S Christina in Bologna in 1598. She was taught by her aunt, Camilla Bombacci, who was the ...

(1590–1662) * Robert Ramsey (1590s–1644) *

Richard Mico Richard Mico (also Micoe, Micho, Meco, Myco; 1590–1661) was an English composer. He was born in Taunton, Somerset, the eldest of three sons of Walter Mico.John Bennett & Pamela Willetts: "Richard Mico", ''Chelys'', Vol. 7, 1977 The family, ...

(1590–1661) * Nicolò Borbone, or ''Borboni'' (c. 1591–1641) *

Settimia Caccini Settimia Caccini (6 October 1591 – , Italy) was a well-known Italian singer and composer during the 1600s, being one of the first women to have a successful career in music. Caccini was highly regarded for her artistic and technical work with mu ...

(1591–1638?) *

Robert Dowland Robert Dowland (c. 15911641) was an English lutenist and composer. He was the son of the lutenist and composer John Dowland, who wrote almost 90 lute songs and other pieces written for the lute. Robert Dowland wrote only a few known compositions, ...

(c. 1591–1641) * Isaac Posch (1591?–c. 1623) *

Cornelis Padbrué Cornelis is a Dutch form of the male given name Cornelius. Some common shortened versions of Cornelis in Dutch are Cees, Cor, Corné, Corneel, Crelis, Kees, Neel and Nelis. Cornelis (Kees) and Johannes (Jan) used to be the most common given na ...

(c. 1592–1670) * Jacques Gaultier (1592–1652) * Paul Auget (1592–1660) * John Jenkins (1592–1678) *

Domenico Mazzocchi Domenico Mazzocchi (baptised 1592 in Civita Castellana21 January 1665 in Veja) was an Italian Baroque composer of only vocal music, of the generation after Claudio Monteverdi. He was a learned Roman lawyer, studied music with Giovanni Maria Nanino ...

(1592–1665) *

Melchior Schildt Melchior Schildt (born 1592 or 1593, Hanover – 18 May 1667) was a German composer and organist of the North German Organ School. He came from a long line of church musicians who had served the town of Hanover for over 125 years. He studied with ...

(1592/1593–1667) *

Truid Aagesen Truid Aagesen ( fl. 1593–1625) was a Danish composer and organist. His only known published music is a set of secular ''Cantiones'' for three voices which were published in Hamburg in 1608 under his Latinized name, Theodoricus Sistinus. He was al ...

(1593-1625) *

Claudia Rusca Claudia Rusca (1593 – 6 October 1676) was an Italian composer, singer, and organist. She was a nun at the Umiliate monastery of St. Caterina in Brera. She learned music at home, before she professed her final vows at the convent. She probably ...

(1593–1676) *

Gottfried Scheidt Gottfried Scheidt (20 September 1593 – 3 June 1661) was a German composer and organist. Born in Halle, he moved to Amsterdam in 1611 to study with Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, returning home in 1615 to further study with his older brother Samuel ...

(1593–1661) *

Johann Ulrich Steigleder Johann Ulrich Steigleder (22 March 1593 – 10 October 1635) was a German Baroque composer and organist. He was the most celebrated member of the Steigleder family, which also included Adam Steigleder (1561–1633), his father, and Utz Steigleder ...

(1593–1635) * Nicolas Le Vasseur (1593–1658) * Matthäus Apelles von Löwenstern (1594–1648) *

Francesco Manelli Francesco Manelli (Mannelli) ( 1595 – 1667) was a Roman Baroque composer, particularly of opera, and a theorbo player. He is most well known for his collaboration with fellow Roman composer Benedetto Ferrari in bringing commercial opera to Ve ...

(1594–1667) *

Biagio Marini Biagio Marini (5 February 1594 – 20 March 1663) was an Italian virtuoso violinist and composer in the first half of the seventeenth century. Marini was born in Brescia. He may have studied with his uncle Giacinto Bondioli. His works were p ...

(1594–1663) * Orazio Michi, "''Orazio dell'Arpa''" (c. 1594–1641) *

Tarquinio Merula Tarquinio Merula (24 November 1595 – 10 December 1665) was an Italian composer, organist, and violinist of the early Baroque era. Although mainly active in Cremona, stylistically he was a member of the Venetian school. He was one of the most ...

(1594/1595–1665) *

Antonio Maria Abbatini Antonio Maria Abbatini ( or 1610 – or 1679) was an Italian composer, active mainly in Rome. Abbatini was born in Città di Castello. He served as maestro di cappella at the Basilica of St. John Lateran from 1626 to 1628; at the cathedral in Orv ...

(c. 1595–1680) *

Giovanni Battista Buonamente Giovanni Battista Buonamente (ca. 1595 – 1642) was an Italian composer and violinist in the early Baroque era. He served the Gonzagas in Mantua until about 1622, and from about 1626 to 1630 served the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, Holy Roman ...

(c. 1595–1642) *

Henry Lawes Henry Lawes (1596 – 1662) was the leading English songwriter of the mid-17th century. He was elder brother of fellow composer William Lawes. Life Henry Lawes (baptised 5 January 1596 – 21 October 1662),Ian Spink, "Lawes, Henry," ''Grove Musi ...

(1595–1662) * John Okeover, or ''Oker'' (c. 1595–1663) * Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde (c. 1595–after 1638) *

Heinrich Scheidemann Heinrich Scheidemann (ca. 1595 – 1663) was a German organist and composer. He was the best-known composer for the organ in north Germany in the early to mid-17th century, and was an important forerunner of Dieterich Buxtehude and J.S. Ba ...

(c. 1595–1663) * John Wilson (1595–1674) *

Constantijn Huygens Sir Constantijn Huygens, Lord of Zuilichem ( , , ; 4 September 159628 March 1687), was a Dutch Golden Age poet and composer. He was also secretary to two Princes of Orange: Frederick Henry and William II, and the father of the scientist C ...

(1596–1687) *

Giovanni Rovetta Giovanni Rovetta (c. 1595/97–1668) was an Italian Baroque composer and ''maestro di capella'' of the Capella Marciana at St Mark's Basilica, Venice between Monteverdi and Cavalli. He may have been a choirboy at St. Mark's, where his father p ...

(c. 1596–1668) * Andreas Düben (1597–1662) *

Virgilio Mazzocchi Virgilio Mazzocchi (22 July 1597 bapt. – 3 October 1646) was an Italian baroque composer. Biography He was born in Veja, near Civita Castellana, where he was baptized, as the younger brother of the more famous composer and learned lawyer ...

(1597–1646) *

Charles Racquet Charles Racquet (1597–1664) was a French organist and composer, best known for his monumental organ ''Fantaisie''. He came from a large family of Parisian organists and himself was appointed organist of Notre Dame de Paris at an early age, in 16 ...

(1597–1664) *

Luigi Rossi Luigi Rossi (c. 1597 – 20 February 1653) was an Italian Baroque composer. Born in Torremaggiore, a small town near Foggia, in the ancient kingdom of Naples, at an early age he went to Naples where he studied music with the Franco-Flemish comp ...

(c. 1597–1653) *

Johann Crüger Johann Crüger (9 April 1598 – 23 February 1662) was a German composer of well-known hymns. He was also the editor of the most widely used Lutheran hymnal of the 17th century, ''Praxis pietatis melica''. Early life and education Crüger was bo ...

(1598–1662) *

Giovanni Battista Fasolo Giovanni Battista Fasolo, O.F.M.Conv ( Asti, ca. 1598 Palermo after 1664), was a Franciscan friar, organist and composer. In his middle years Fasolo was primarily known for his 1645 organ annual, which, like ''L'organo suonarino'' of Adriano Ba ...

(c. 1598–c. 1664) *

Pierre Gaultier Pierre Gaultier (Gaultier of Orléans; ''Gaultier Orléanois''; ''Gaultier de Rome'', 1599-after 1638) was a French lutenist and composer. Life Gaultier hailed from Orléans Orléans (;

''d'Orleans'' (1599–1681) *

John Hilton the younger John Hilton (ca. 15991657) was an English early Baroque composer.Peter Le Huray; Ian Spink: ''Hilton, John (ii)'', New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1980 He is best known for his books ''Ayres or Fa-Las for Three Voices'' and ''Catch Tha ...

(c. 1599–1657) *

Étienne Moulinié Étienne Moulinié (10 October 1599 – 1676) was a French Baroque composer. He was born in Languedoc, and when he was a child he sang at the Narbonne Cathedral. Through the influence of his brother Antoine (died 1655), Moulinié gained an app ...

(1599–1676) *

Thomas Selle Thomas Selle (23 March 1599 – 2 July 1663) was a seventeenth-century German baroque composer. Life There is practically no reliable information about the early years of Thomas Selle. Between his birth in 1599 and his matriculation in the U ...

(1599–1663) * John Marchant (died 1611) * Richard Martin (fl. c. 1610) *

Girolamo Dalla Casa __NOTOC__ Girolamo Dalla Casa (also known as Hieronymo de Udene, died 1601) was an Italian composer, instrumentalist, and writer of the late Renaissance. He was a member of the Venetian School, and was perhaps more famous and influential as a p ...

(fl. from 1568; d. 1601) * William Tisdale (born 1570) * Henry Lichfild (died 1613) *

John Bartlet John Bartlet may refer to: * John Bartlet (composer), English Renaissance composer * John Bartlet (divine), English nonconformist divine See also * John Bartlett (disambiguation) {{hndis, Bartlet, John ...

(fl. 1606–1610) * Thomas Greaves (fl. 1604) * Richard Sumarte (d. after 1630) * Richard Nicholson (died 1639) * Jean Boyer (15??–1648) * Thomas Vautor (1580/1590–?) * Henry Youll (1580/1590–?) * George Handford (fl. c. 1609) *

Robert Tailour The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

(fl. 1615) * Charles Coleman (died 1646) *

William Corkine William Corkine ( fl. 1610 - 1617) was an English composer, lutenist, gambist and lyra viol player of the Renaissance. In private service in the second decade of the 17th century before traveling to Poland in 1617. He published a first book of ...

(fl. 1610–1617) *

Juan Arañés Juan Arañés (died c. 1649) was a Spanish baroque composer. His tonos and villancicos follow the style of those preserved in the Cancionero of Kraków. Biography Arañés was born in Aragon, at an unknown date. After studies in Alcalá de Henar ...

(fl. 1624–49; d. c. 1649) * Giovanni Battista Grillo (died 1622) *

Marcantonio Negri Marcantonio Negri (died October 1624) was an Italian composer, singer, and musical director of the early Baroque era. He was in the musical establishment of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice at the same time as Monteverdi, and was well known as a c ...

(died 1624) *

Giovanni Battista Riccio Giovanni Battista Riccio (''Giambattista Riccio'') (late 16th centuryafter 1621) was a musician and composer of the early Baroque era, resident in Venice, most notable for his development of instrumental forms, particularly utilizing the recorder. ...

(''fl.'' 1609–1621) *

Giuseppe Scarani Giuseppe Scarani () was an Italian organist, singer and composer. Biography A monk of the Carmelite order, he was employed in Mantua as an organist at the Carmelite Church in 1628. He was hired as a singer in the St. Mark Basilica in Venice in J ...

(''fl.'' 1628–1641) * Adam z Wągrowca (died 1629) *

Mikołaj Zieleński Mikołaj Zieleński (Zelenscius, fl. 1611) was a Polish composer, organist and '' Kapellmeister'' to the primate Baranowski, Archbishop of Gniezno. Neither the date of his birth nor of his death are known; documents from Płock Cathedral state h ...

(''fl.'' 1611)

Middle Baroque era composers (born 1600–49)

Composers of the Middle Baroque era include the following figures listed by the date of their birth: *

Mlle Bocquet Mlle Bocquet (either Anne or Marguerite) (early 17th century–''after'' 1661) was a French lutenist and composer. She ran a Salon (gathering), Salon with a Madeleine de Scudéry, Mlle de Scudéry from 1653–1659. She was in contact with members a ...

(early 17th century–after 1660) *

Alessandro Poglietti Alessandro Poglietti (early 17th century – July 1683) was a Baroque organist and composer of unknown origin. In the second half of the 17th century Poglietti settled in Vienna, where he attained an extremely high reputation, becoming one of Le ...

(early 17th century–1683) *

François de La Roche François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * Francis I of France, King of France (), known as "the Father and Restorer of Letters" * Francis II of France, Kin ...

(?–1677) * François de Chancy (?–1656) * Henry Frémart (16..–1651) * Jean Veillot (16..–1662) * Pierre Méliton (16? – 1684) * Antonio de Jesús (????–1682) * Demachy ou le Sieur De Machy (16? – 1692) * Manuel Correia (c. 1600–1653) * Giuseppe Giamberti (c.1600 – c. 1663) *

Bonaventura Rubino Fray Bonaventura Rubino (c. 1600–1668) was an Italian composer. According to his publications, his origin of "Montecchio di Lombardia" probably indicates that he was from Montecchio in Darfo Boario Terme, one hour east of Bergamo. He was ''maes ...

(c. 1600–1668) * (c. 1600–1675) *

Simon Ives Simon Ives (sometimes spelled Yves or Ive or Ivy) (1600 - 1662) was an English composer and organist who was active in the court of Charles I of England Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and ...

(1600–1662) *

Nicolaus à Kempis Nicolaus à Kempis, Nicolaus a Kempis or Nicolaes a Kempis (c. 1600 – buried in Brussels on 11 August 1676) was a Flemish composer and organist active in Brussels in the middle of the 17th century. He is known for introducing the latest innovatio ...

(c. 1600–1676) *

Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic Adam Michna z Otradovic, or also Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic – literally ''Adam Michna of Otradovice'' – ( 1600 – 2 November 1676, Jindřichův Hradec) was a Czech Catholic poet, composer, hymn writer, organist and choir leader of th ...

(c. 1600–1676) *

Marcin Mielczewski Marcin Mielczewski (c. 1600 – September 1651) was, together with his tutor Franciszek Lilius and Bartłomiej Pękiel, among the most notable Polish composers in the 17th century. By 1632 he was a composer and musician in the royal chapel in Wars ...

(c. 1600–1651) *

Carlos Patiño Carlos Patiño ( Cuenca 1600Madrid 5 September 1675) was a Spanish Baroque composer. Patiño was a choirboy at Seville Cathedral where he studied with Alonso Lobo. He married in 1622 but his wife's death in 1625 led to his entry into the priesth ...

(1600–1675) * (c. 1600–c. 1648) *

Giovanni Felice Sances Giovanni Felice Sances (also Sancies, Sanci, Sanes, Sanchez, ca. 160024 November 1679) was an Italian singer and a Baroque composer. He was renowned in Europe during his time. Sances studied at the Collegio Germanico in Rome from 1609 to 1614. ...

(c. 1600–1679) *

Marco Scacchi Marco Scacchi (ca. 1600 – 7 September 1662) was an Italian composer and writer on music. Scacchi was born in Gallese, Lazio. He studied under Giovanni Francesco Anerio in Rome. He was associated with the court at Warsaw from 1626, and was '' ...

(c. 1600–1662) * Delphin Strungk (1600/1601–1694) *

Louis XIII Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown ...

(1601–1643) *

Michelangelo Rossi Michelangelo Rossi (Michel Angelo del Violino) (ca. 1601/1602 – 1656) was an important Italian composer, violinist and organist of the Baroque era. Rossi was born in Genoa, where he studied with his uncle, Lelio Rossi organist (from 1601 t ...

(c. 1601–1656) *

Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy (born in the diocese of Clermont, 1601, and died in Paris, 30 Oct 1675) was a French composer. He entered the Jesuit order as a novice in 1621 and from 1660 until his death directed the music at the church attached to the ...

(1601–1675) *

Jacques Champion de Chambonnières Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (Jacques Champion, commonly referred to as Chambonnières) (c. 1601/2 – 1672) was a French harpsichordist, dancer and composer. Born into a musical family, Chambonnières made an illustrious career as court ha ...

(1601/1602–1672) *

Francesco Cavalli Francesco Cavalli (born Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni; 14 February 1602 – 14 January 1676) was a Republic of Venice, Venetian composer, organist and singer of the early Baroque music, Baroque period. He succeeded his teacher Claudio Monteverd ...

(1602–1676) *

Chiara Margarita Cozzolani Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (27 November 1602 – ca. 1676–1678), was a Baroque music composer, singer and Benedictine nun. She spent her adult life cloistered in the convent of Santa Radegonda, Milan, where she served as prioress and abbess and ...

(1602–c. 1678) *

William Lawes William Lawes (April 160224 September 1645) was an English composer and musician. Life and career Lawes was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire and was baptised on 1 May 1602. He was the son of Thomas Lawes, a vicar choral at Salisbury Cathedral, ...

(1602–1645) *

Marco Marazzoli Marco Marazzoli (1602? – 26 January 1662) was an Italian priest and Baroque music composer. Early life Born at Parma, Marazzoli received early training as a priest, and was ordained around 1625. He moved to Rome in 1626, and entered the s ...

(c. 1602–1662) *

Christopher Simpson Christopher Simpson (1602/1606–1669) was an English musician and composer, particularly associated with music for the viola da gamba. Life Simpson was born between 1602 and 1606, probably at Egton, North Yorkshire. He was the eldest son o ...

(c. 1602/1606–1669) * (1602–1677) *

Benedetto Ferrari Benedetto Ferrari (ca. 1603 – 1681) was an Italian composer, particularly of opera, librettist, and theorbo player. Ferrari was born in Reggio nell'Emilia. He worked in Rome (1617–1618), Parma (1619–1623), and possibly in Modena at some ...

(c. 1603?–1681) * Francesco Foggia (1603–1688) *

Denis Gaultier Denis Gaultier (''Gautier'', ''Gaulthier''; also known as Gaultier le jeune and Gaultier de Paris) (1597 or 1602/3 – 1672) was a French lutenist and composer. He was a cousin of Ennemond Gaultier. Life Gaultier was born in Paris; two conflict ...

, ''Gaultier le jeune'' (1603–1672) *

John IV of Portugal John IV ( pt, João, ; 19 March 1604 – 6 November 1656), nicknamed John the Restorer ( pt, João, o Restaurador), was the King of Portugal whose reign, lasting from 1640 until his death, began the Portuguese restoration of independence from H ...

(1603–1656) * Caspar Kittel (1603–1639) *

Natale Monferrato Natale Monferrato (1603–1685) was an Italian baroque composer. He was a pupil of Giovanni Rovetta, then was a singer at St Mark's Basilica in Venice, and then with the aid of Francesco Cavalli vicemaestro, or ''maestro di coro'' (1647–76). On ...

(c. 1603–1685) * Diego Pontac (1603–1654) * Marco Uccellini (1603/1610–1680) *

Heinrich Albert Heinrich Friedrich Albert (12 February 1874 to 1 November 1960) was a German civil servant, diplomat, politician, businessman and lawyer who served as minister for reconstruction and the Treasury in the government of Wilhelm Cuno in 1922/1923. ...

(1604–1651) *

François Dufault François Dufault (or Dufaut) (before 1604 (?)ca. 1672?) was a French lutenist and composer. Dufault was born in Bourges, France. As a student of Denis Gaultier, he enjoyed an excellent reputation as an instrumentalist, which is demonstrated in ma ...

(1604–1670) * Bonifazio Graziani (1604/1605–1664) * Charles d'Assoucy (1605–1677) *

Orazio Benevoli Orazio Benevoli or Benevolo (19 April 1605 – 17 June 1672), was a Franco-Italian composer of large scaled polychoral sacred choral works (e.g., one work featured forty-eight vocal and instrumental lines) of the mid-Baroque era. He was born ...

(1605–1672) *

Antonio Bertali Antonio Bertali (March 1605–17 April 1669) was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era. He was born in Verona and received early music education there from Stefano Bernardi. Probably from 1624, he was employed as court music ...

(1605–1669) *

Giacomo Carissimi (Gian) Giacomo Carissimi (; baptized 18 April 160512 January 1674) was an Italian composer and music teacher. He is one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque or, more accurately, the Roman School of music. Carissimi established the ...

(1605–1674) *

Francesco Sacrati Francesco Sacrati (17 September 1605 in Parma, Italy – 20 May 1650 in Modena, Italy) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era, who played an important role in the early history of opera. He wrote for the Teatro Novissimo in Venice as wel ...

(1605–1650) *

Johann Vierdanck Johann Vierdanck (also ''Virdanck, Vyrdanck, Feyertagk, Feyerdank, Fierdanck''; ca. 1605–1646) was a German violinist, cornettist, and composer of the Baroque period. Life Vierdanck was born near Dresden. In 1615 he joined the court chapel ...

(c. 1605–1646) *

Jean de Cambefort Jean de Cambefort ( – 4 May 1661) was a French Baroque singer and composer of ballets and liturgical music. He died in Paris, France. He is now mostly remembered for composing six airs (''recits'') for the '' Ballet de la Nuit'', performed in ...

(1605–1661) *

Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy Charles Coypeau (16 October 1605 Paris – 29 October 1677, Paris) was a French musician and burlesque poet. In the mid-1630s he began using the ''nom de plume'' D'Assouci or Dassoucy. Life From the time he was eight or nine, Charles Coypeau b ...

(1605–1677) *

William Child William Child (160623 March 1697) was an English composer and organist. Early life Born in Bristol, Child was a chorister in the cathedral under the direction of Elway Bevin. In 1630 he began his lifetime association with St. George's Chape ...

(1606–1697) * Michel de La Guerre (c. 1606–1679) * (1606–1677) *

Urbán de Vargas Urbán de Vargas (1606–1656) was a Spanish baroque composer. Life Urbano Barguilla y de Ripalda was born in 1606 in Falces, south of Navarra. He studied with the ''maestro de capilla'' at Burgos, Luis Bernardo Jalón, known for his polemic acti ...

(1606–1656) *

Sigmund Theophil Staden Sigmund Theophil Staden (6 November 1607 – 30 July 1655) was an important early German composer. Staden was born in Kulmbach in the Principality of Bayreuth, son of Johann Staden, the founder of the so-called Nuremberg school. Based in ...

(1607–1655) *

Abraham Megerle Abraham Megerle (9 February 1607 in Wasserburg am Inn – 29 May 1680 in Altötting) was an Austrian composer and organist. He served as Kapellmeister to Paris von Lodron, the Prince-Bishop of Salzburg, from 1640 to 1651. He enjoyed the patr ...

(1607–1680) *

Philipp Friedrich Böddecker Philipp Friedrich Böddecker (christened 5 August 1607 in Hagenau - 8 October 1683 in Stuttgart) was a German court organist and composer. While organist at the Stiftskirche he engaged in a bitter dispute with Samuel Capricornus at the Württembe ...

(1607–1683) * Ferdinand III, ''Holy Roman Emperor'' (1608–1657) *

Jacques de Gouy Jacques de Gouy (c. 1610 – after 1650) was a French Baroque composer of Dutch ancestry. He was acquainted with composers in Parisian music circles of the early 17th century such as Étienne Moulinié and Michel Lambert. Works In his writings, de ...

(c. 1610–after 1650) * Valentin de Bournonville (1610–1663) *

François Cosset François Cosset (Picardy, c. 1610 - c. 1673) was a French composer. His works include 8 masses, 4 of them composed at Reims in 1659.Jean Duron ''La naissance du style français: 1650-1673'' - 2008 p52 "autour de 1660: Charles d'Helfer à Soisso ...

(1610-1664) *

Nicolas Hotman Nicolas Hotman (also ''Autheman'', ''Haultemant'', ''Hautman'', ''Otteman''; ca. 1610–1663) was a Baroque composer, who spent most of his career in France. He is believed to have been from Germany, but was probably born in Brussels. He cam ...

(c. 1610–1663) *

João Lourenço Rebelo João Lourenço Rebelo, or João Soares Rebelo (1610 – 16 November 1661) was the only Portuguese composer to adopt the Venetian polychoral style.Paul van Nevel, ''João Lourenço Rebelo and the Portuguese Polyphony of the first half of the seve ...

(1610–1661) *

William Young William, Will, Bill or Billy Young may refer to: Arts and entertainment * William Young (composer) (died 1662), English composer and viola da gambist * William Young (architect) (1843–1900), Scottish architect, designer of Glasgow City Chambers ...

(c. 1610–1662) *

Nicolas Métru Nicolas Métru (ca. 1610 in Bar-sur-Aube1668 Paris) was a French organist, viol player, and composer of pieces for viol and airs. From 1642 he was organist at St. Nicolas-des-Champs, then some time later master of music for the Jesuits. He taught Co ...

(1610–1668) *

Sébastien Le Camus Sébastien Le Camus (ca. 1610-1677) was a French composer. He entered into the service of Louis XIII Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King ...

(c. 1610–1677) * Leonora Duarte (1610–1678) * (c. 1610–after 1682) *

Henri Du Mont Henri is an Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Luxembourgish form of the masculine given name Henry. People with this given name ; French noblemen :'' See the 'List of rulers named Henry' for Kings of France named Henri.'' * Henri I de Montm ...

(1610–1684) * George Jeffreys (c. 1610–1685) *

Michel Lambert Michel Lambert (1610 – 29 June 1696) was a French singing master, theorbist and composer. Career Lambert was born at Champigny-sur-Veude, France. He received his musical education as an altar boy at the Chapel of Gaston d'Orléans, a brother of k ...

(1610–1696) *

Leonora Baroni Leonora Baroni (December 1611 – 6 April 1670)Pannella was an Italian singer, theorbist, lutenist, viol player, and composer. Biography She was the daughter of Adriana Basile, a '' virtuosa'' singer, and Mutio Baroni. Leonora Baroni was born ...

(1611–1670) * Thomas Brewer (1611–c. 1660) *

Pablo Bruna Pablo Bruna (22 June 1611 – 27 June 1679) was a Spanish composer and organist notable for his blindness (caused by a childhood bout of smallpox), which resulted in his being known as "El ciego de Daroca" ("the blind man of Daroca"). It is not kno ...

(1611–1679) *

Andreas Hammerschmidt Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611 or 1612 – 29 October 1675), the "Orpheus of Zittau," was a German Bohemian composer and organist of the early to middle Baroque era. He was one of the most significant and popular composers of sacred music in Ger ...

(1611/1612–1675) *

Wolfgang Ebner Wolfgang Ebner (16121665) was a German baroque composer. He was a Viennese court organist in the latter years of the reign of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, and then of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor. Ebner was born in Augsburg. He may have pr ...

(1612–1665) * Jacques Huyn (1613–1652) * Elisabeth Sophie, ''Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg'' (1613–1676) *

Thomas Mace Thomas Mace (1612 or 1613 – c. 1706) was an English lutenist, viol player, singer, composer and musical theorist of the Baroque music, Baroque era. His book ''Musick's Monument'' (1676) provides a valuable description of 17th century musica ...

(c. 1613–1709?) * Louis de Mollier (c. 1613–1688)
* Giovanni Antonio Rigatti (c. 1613–1648) *

Wilhelm Karges Wilhelm Karges (1613/14–1699), was a German organist and composer in the North German organ tradition. Much of Karges' life was spent in and around Berlin, where he was born, worked, and died. Karges came into contact with Sweelinck's student, ...

(1613/1614–1699) *

Jean-Baptiste Boësset Jean-Baptiste Boësset (1614 – 25 December 1685) was a French composer of sacred and secular music, whose notable works include an ''Ave Regina caelorum'' and several ''airs de cour.'' He was the eldest son of the court composer Antoine Boësset ...

, ''Sieur de Dehault'' (1614–1685) * Philipp Friedrich Buchner (1614–1669) *

Juan Hidalgo de Polanco Juan Hidalgo de Polanco (28 September 1614 – 31 March 1685) was a Spanish composer and harpist who became the most influential composer of his time in the Hispanic world writing the music for the first two operas created in Spanish. He is cons ...

(1614–1685) *

Marc'Antonio Pasqualini 200px, ''Marcantonio Pasqualini Crowned by Apollo'' (1641) by Andrea Sacchi. Marco Antonio Pasqualini (stage name Malagigi; 25 April 1614 – 2 July 1691) was an Italian castrato opera singer who performed during the Baroque period. He has be ...

(1614–1691) *

Franz Tunder Franz Tunder (1614 – November 5, 1667) was a German composer and organist of the early to middle Baroque era. He was an important link between the early German Baroque style which was based on Venetian models, and the later Baroque style ...

(1614–1667) *

Yatsuhashi Kengyo Yatsuhashi Kengyō ( 八橋検校; 1614–1685) was a Japanese musician and composer from Kyoto. The name kengyō is an honorary title given to highly skilled blind musicians. Yatsuhashi, who was born and died in Japan, was originally a p ...

(1614–1685) *

Francesca Campana Francesca Campana (ca. 1615, d. 1665) was a spinet player, and composer. She was born in Rome, thought to be the daughter of Andrea Campana, wife of the composer Giovan Carlo Rossi and sister-in-law of Luigi Rossi. In 1629 Francesca Campana publis ...

(c. 1615–1665) *

Heinrich Bach Heinrich Bach ( – ) was a German organist, composer and a member of the Bach family. Heinrich Bach was born at Wechmar, and is the father of the so-called Arnstadt Line. After the early death of his father, his older brother Johannes Bach cont ...

(1615–1692) *

Angelo Michele Bartolotti Angelo Michele Bartolotti (died before 1682) was an Italian guitarist, theorbo player and composer. Bartolotti was probably born in Bologna, Italy, as he describes himself as "Bolognese" on the title page of his first guitar book and "di Bologna" ...

(c. 1615–1696) * Guillaume Dumanoir (1615–1697) *

Francesco Corbetta Francesco Corbetta (ca. 1615 – 1681, in French also Francisque Corbette) was an Italian guitar virtuoso, teacher and composer. Along with his compatriots Giovanni Paolo Foscarini and Angelo Michele Bartolotti, he was a pioneer and exponent of ...

(c. 1615–1681) *

Christopher Gibbons Christopher Gibbons ( bapt. 22 August 1615 – 20 October 1676) was an English composer and organist of the Baroque period. He was the second son, and first surviving child of the composer Orlando Gibbons. Life and career Background Chri ...

(1615–1676) * Francisco López Capillas (c. 1615–1673) *

Maurizio Cazzati Maurizio Cazzati (1 March 1616 – 28 September 1678) was a northern Italian composer of the seventeenth century. Biography Cazzati was born in Luzzara in the Duchy of Mantua. In spite of being almost unknown today, during his lifetime he served ...

(1616–1678) *

Kaspar Förster Kaspar Förster (also Caspar Foerster) (baptized 28 February 1616 in Danzig – 2 February 1673 in Oliva, near Danzig) was a German singer and composer. Förster studied music under his father Kaspar (1574-1652) and then under Marco Scacchi ...

(the younger) (1616–1673) *

Johann Jakob Froberger Johann Jakob Froberger ( baptized 19 May 1616 – 7 May 1667) was a German Baroque composer, keyboard virtuoso, and organist. Among the most famous composers of the era, he was influential in developing the musical form of the suite of dances in h ...

(1616–1667) *

Johann Erasmus Kindermann Johann Erasmus Kindermann (29 March 1616 – 14 April 1655) was a German Baroque organist and composer. He was the most important composer of the Nuremberg school in the first half of the 17th century. Life Kindermann was born in Nuremberg and ...

(1616–1655) *

Jacques de Saint-Luc Jacques de Saint-Luc (baptized 19 September 1616ca. 1710) was a Walloon lutenist and composer. Saint-Luc was born in Ath in 1616; nothing is known about his early years. In 1639 he was invited to become a musician at the court in Brussels, and ...

(1616–c. 1710) *

Matthias Weckmann Matthias Weckmann (''Weckman'') (''c''.1616 24 February 1674) was a German musician and composer of the Baroque period. He was born in Niederdorla (Thuringia) and died in Hamburg. Life His musical training took place in Dresden (as a chorister a ...

(c. 1616–1674) *

Carlo Caproli Carlo Caproli or Caprioli ( – 1668),Affortunato 2008, . also called Carlo del Violino, was an Italian violinist, organist, and a leading composer of cantatas in mid-17th-century Italy.Caluori 2001.Sadie 1990, p. 59. Life Early life and car ...

(c. 1617–c. 1692) * Nikolaus Hasse (c. 1617–1672) * Francisco Martins (c. 1617?–1680)
* Joan Cererols (1618–1680) *

Abraham van den Kerckhoven Abraham van den Kerckhoven (c. 1618 – c. 1701) was a Flemish organist and composer. He was active in Brussels, working as organist at the local Saint Catherine's Church and as court organist. He was held in high regard by his contemporaries. A si ...

(c. 1618–c. 1701) * José Marín (1618–1699) * Pierre Robert (c. 1618 – 1699) * (1619–1701) *

Anthoni van Noordt Anthoni van Noordt (c. 1619 – 23 March 1675) was a Dutch composer and organist. Born in Amsterdam, where he lived throughout his life, he was the brother of Jacobus and Jan van Noordt. He became the organist of the Nieuwezijdskapel in 1652, a ...

(c. 1619–1675) *

Johann Rosenmüller Johann Rosenmüller (1619 – 10 September 1684) was a German Baroque composer, who played a part in transmitting Italian musical styles to the north. Career Rosenmüller was born in Oelsnitz, near Plauen in Saxony. He studied at the University ...

(1619–1684) *

Barbara Strozzi Barbara Strozzi (also called Barbara Valle; baptised 6 August 1619 – 11 November 1677) was an Italian composer and singer of the Baroque Period. During her lifetime, Strozzi published eight volumes of her own music, and had more secular ...

(1619–1677) *

Juan García de Zéspedes Juan García de Zéspedes (ca. 1619 – 5 August 1678) was a Mexican composer, singer, viol player, and teacher. Biography He is thought to have been born in Puebla, Mexico. As a boy he was a soprano in the choir at Puebla Cathedral in 1630 ...

(c. 1619–1678) *

Joannes Baptista Dolar Joannes Baptista Dolar ( sl, Janez Krstnik Dolar or ''Janez Kersnik Dolar'', cz, Jan Křtitel Tolar, also ''Tollar'' or ''Thollary''; 1620, Kamnik – 1673, Vienna) was a composer and contemporary of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Johann Heinri ...

, also ''Janez Krstnik Dolar'' or ''Jan Křtitel Tolar'' (c. 1620–1673) *

Adam Drese Adam Drese (December 1620 – 15 February 1701 in Arnstadt) was a German composer, kapellmeister and bass viol player of the baroque period. Life Adam Drese was born in the German state of Thuringia. He became a musician at the court of Duke Wilh ...

(c. 1620–1701) * Isabella Leonarda (1620–1704) *

Johann Heinrich Schmelzer Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c. 1620–1623between 29 February and 20 March 1680) was an Austrian composer and violinist of the middle Baroque era. Almost nothing is known about his early years, but he seems to have arrived in Vienna during the 1630 ...

(c. 1620–1680) * Giovanni Battista Granata (1620/1621–1687) *

Georg Arnold Georg Arnold (23 April 1621 in Feldsberg Valtice (; german: Feldsberg) is a town in Břeclav District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 3,600 inhabitants. It is known as part of Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape ...

(1621–1676) *

Albertus Bryne Albertus Bryne (variants: Albert Bryan; Albert Brian) (ca. 1621 – 2 December 1668) was an English organist and composer. Biography His teacher was John Tomkins, organist of St Paul's Cathedral, a role in which he succeeded his teacher in 1638. ...

(1621–1668) * Massimiliano Neri (composer) (1621–1666) *

Matthew Locke Matthew Locke may refer to: * Matthew Locke (administrator) (fl. 1660–1683), English Secretary at War from 1666 to 1683 * Matthew Locke (composer) (c. 1621–1677), English Baroque composer and music theorist * Matthew Locke (soldier) (1974–2 ...

(c. 1621–1677) *

Georg Neumark Georg Neumark (16 March 1621 – 8 July 1681) was a German poet and composer of hymns. Life Neumark was born in Langensalza, the son of Michael Neumark and his wife Martha. From 1630 he attended the gymnasium in Schleusingen and later transfer ...

(1621–1681) * Bertrand de Bacilly (1621–1690) *

Heinrich Schwemmer Heinrich Schwemmer (28 March 1621 – 31 May 1696) was a German music teacher and composer. He was born in Gumpertshausen bei Hallburg, Lower Franconia, and moved with his mother to Weimar after his father’s death in 1627, to get away from ...

(1621–1696) *

Ercole Bernabei Ercole Bernabei (Caprarola (Latium), 1622 – Munich, 5 December 1687) was an Italian composer, chapel master and organist. Bernabei was born in Caprarola, and became a pupil of Orazio Benevoli in Rome. From 1653 he served as organist at San Lui ...

(1622–1687) *

Jean Lacquemant Jean Lacquemant or Jean Lacman, also known as DuBuisson or Du Buisson (1622 or 1623 – 1680 or 1681) was a French composer of Baroque music. Life Lacquemand was born in Picardie. What little is known about him is due to Jonathan Dunford who sho ...

, known as ''DuBuisson'' (c. 1622–1680) * Gaspar de Verlit (1622–1682) *

Dietrich Becker Dietrich Becker (ca. 1623 – Hamburg, 12 May 1679) was a German Baroque violinist and composer. Little is known about Becker's musical education. His first position was as organist at Ahrensberg. In his second position, in the service of the ...

(c. 1623–c. 1679) *

Antonio Cesti Pietro Marc'Antonio Cesti () (baptism 5 August 162314 October 1669), known today primarily as an Italian composer of the Baroque era, was also a singer (tenor), and organist. He was "the most celebrated Italian musician of his generation". Biogra ...

(1623–1669) *

Jacopo Melani Jacopo Melani (6 July 1623 – 18 August 1676) was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era. He was born and died in Pistoia, and was the brother of composer Alessandro Melani and singer Atto Melani. Works *1655-6: Intermedi (with ...

(1623–1676) *

David Pohle David Pohle (1624 – 20 December 1695) was a German composer of the Baroque era. His surname is also spelled Pohl, Pohlen, Pole, Pol or Bohle. Biography Pohle was born in Marienberg into a family of civic musicians. He was a pupil of Heinrich Sc ...

(1624–1695) *

Francesco Provenzale Francesco Provenzale (25 September 1632 – 6 September 1704) was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. Notably Provenzale was the teacher of famed castrato 'il cavaliere ...

(1624–1704) *

François Roberday François Roberday (21 March 1624 – 13 October 1680) was a French Baroque organist and composer. One of the last exponents of the French polyphonic music tradition established by Jean Titelouze and Louis Couperin, Roberday is best remembered ...

(1624–1680) *

Johann Rudolf Ahle Johann Rudolph Ahle (24 December 1625 – 9 July 1673) was a German composer, organist, theorist, and Protestant church musician. Biography Ahle was born in Mühlhausen, Thuringia. While not much is known of his early musical training, he attended ...

(1625–1673) * Alexandre Gallot (1625–1684) *

Jacques Gallot Jacques Gallot (or Jacques de Gallot, le vieux Gallot de Paris) (c. 1625 – c. 1695 in Paris, France) was a French lutenist and composer. He came from a Parisian family of lutenists and composers. He was a student of Ennemond Gaultier. In Par ...

, le vieux Gallot de Paris (c. 1625–1695) *

Marco Giuseppe Peranda Marco Giuseppe Peranda ( Macerata, c. 1625 – 12 January 1675 in Dresden) was an Italian musician and composer active in Germany. Life He was one of the most notable Italian musicians in Germany during the early Baroque alongside Vincenzo Albri ...

(c. 1625–1675) *

Wolfgang Carl Briegel Wolfgang Carl Briegel (21 May 1626, Königsberg, Bavaria – 19 November 1712, Darmstadt, Germany) was a German organist, teacher, and composer.Noack and Schröder, ''Grove online'' Biography As a boy he was a student in Nuremberg and sang in th ...

(1626–1712) *

Louis Couperin Louis Couperin (; – 29 August 1661) was a French Baroque composer and performer. He was born in Chaumes-en-Brie and moved to Paris in 1650–1651 with the help of Jacques Champion de Chambonnières. Couperin worked as organist of the C ...

(c. 1626–1661) *

Christian Flor Christian Flor (162628 September 1697) was a German composer and organist. Working at churches in Rendsburg and Lüneburg, he was widely known for vocal and organ compositions. He composed one of the earliest Passion oratorios, in 1667. Life ...

(1626–1697) *

Giovanni Legrenzi Giovanni Legrenzi (baptized August 12, 1626 – May 27, 1690) was an Italian composer of opera, vocal and instrumental music, and organist, of the Baroque era. He was one of the most prominent composers in Venice in the late 17th century, and ext ...

(1626–1690) *

Charles Mouton Charles Mouton (1617 - before 1699) was a French lutenist and composer. There were musicians in Mouton's mother's family, one of whom worked at the French court. Mouton was living in Paris in 1664, where he had several affluent students. He too ...

(1626–1710) * Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz (1626–1667?) *

Nicolas Gigault Nicolas Gigault (ca. 1627 – 20 August 1707) was a French Baroque organist and composer. Born into poverty, he quickly rose to fame and high reputation among fellow musicians. His surviving works include the earliest examples of noëls and a volum ...

(c. 1627–1707) *

Johann Caspar Kerll Johann Caspar Kerll (9 April 1627 – 13 February 1693) was a German baroque composer and organist. He is also known as Kerl, Gherl, Giovanni Gasparo Cherll and Gaspard Kerle. Born in Adorf in the Electorate of Saxony as the son of an organist, ...

(1627–1693) *

Christoph Bernhard Christoph Bernhard (1 January 1628 – 14 November 1692) was born in Kolberg, Pomerania, and died in Dresden. He was a German Baroque composer and musician. He studied with former Sweelinck-pupil Paul Siefert in Danzig (now Gdańsk) and in War ...

(1628–1692) *

Robert Cambert Robert Cambert (c. 1628–1677) was a French composer principally of opera. His opera '' Pomone'' was the first actual opera in French. Biography Under Mazarin Born in Paris c. 1628, he studied music under Chambonnières. His first position was ...

(c. 1628–1677) *

Samuel Capricornus Samuel Friedrich Capricornus, born Samuel Friedrich Bockshorn (21 December 1628, in Žerčice near Mladá Boleslav – 10 November 1665, in Stuttgart) was a Czech composer of the Baroque period. Life Capricornus' father was a Protestant minis ...

(1628–1665) * Constantin Christian Dedekind (1628–1715) *

Gustaf Düben Gustaf Düben (also spelt Gustav) (1624/1628December 19, 1690) was a Swedish organist and composer. Personal life Early life Düben was born in the 1620s in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of the German-born Andreas Düben, an organist, and Anna ...

(1628–1690) * (1628–1686) *

Jean-Henri d'Anglebert Jean-Henri d'Anglebert ( baptized 1 April 1629 – 23 April 1691) was a French composer, harpsichordist and organist. He was one of the foremost keyboard composers of his day. Life D'Anglebert's father Claude Henry known as AnglebertJean const ...

(1629–1691) *

Lelio Colista Lelio Colista (13 January 1629, Rome – 13 October 1680, Rome) was an Italian Baroque composer, lutenist, and guitarist.Michael Tilmouth, entry on Lelio Colista in New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1980 Funded by his father, who h ...

(1629–1680) *

Lady Mary Dering Mary, Lady Dering (née Mary Harvey), (''bap.'' 3 September 1629 – 7 February 1704) was an English composer. The daughter of Daniel Harvey and Elizabeth Kynnersley, Mary Harvey was baptised in Croydon on 3 September 1629, and therefore pro ...

(1629–1704) *

Andreas Hofer Andreas Hofer (22 November 1767 – 20 February 1810) was a Tyrolean innkeeper and drover, who in 1809 became the leader of the Tyrolean Rebellion against the Napoleonic and Bavarian invasion during the War of the Fifth Coalition. He was subse ...

(1629–1684) * (1629–1685) * John Banister (c. 1630–1679) *

Cristóbal Galán Cristóbal Galán (c. 1630 – 24 September 1684) was a Spanish Baroque composer. The first record of Galán is that in 1651 he was rejected as ''maestro de capilla'' in Sigüenza because he was married. From 1653 he was a singer and organist, ...

(c. 1630–1684) *

Filipe da Madre de Deus Frei Filipe da Madre de Deus ( Lisbon, c. 1630 – Seville, c. 1688 or 1690) was a Portuguese Baroque composer. Life Filipe da Madre de Deus was born in Lisbon, about 1630. Although he lacked a deep knowledge of music theory, he was a skille ...

(c. 1630–c. 1688 or later) *

Carlo Pallavicino Carlo Pallavicino (Pallavicini; c. 1630 – 29 January 1688) was an Italian composer. Pallavicino was born at Salò. From 1666 to 1673, he worked at the Dresden court; from 1674 to 1685, at the ''Ospedale degli Incurabili'' (a conservatory where ...

(c. 1630–1688) * Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (c. 1630?–1669/1670) *

Antonio Sartorio Antonio Sartorio (1630 – 30 December 1680) was an Italian composer active mainly in Venice, Italy, and in Hanover, Germany. He was a leading composer of operas in his native Venice in the 1660s and 1670s and was also known for composing in o ...

(1630–1680) *

Vincenzo Albrici Vincenzo Albrici (26 June 1631 in Rome - 7 September 1687 in Prague) was an Italian composer, brother of Bartolomeo and nephew of Fabio and Alessandro Costantini. Albrici was born as the son of singer who settled from Marche in Rome. In 1641 he ...

(1631–1696) *

Thomas Baltzar Thomas Baltzar ('' c''. 1630 – 24 July 1663) was a German violinist and composer. He was born in Lübeck to a musical family; his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all musicians.Holman, Peter. "Baltzar, Thomas". Grove Music Online' ...

(c. 1631–1663) *

Nicolas Lebègue Nicolas-Antoine Lebègue (also ''Le Bègue''; c. 16316 July 1702) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was born in Laon and in the 1650s settled in Paris, quickly establishing himself as one of the best organists of the cou ...

(1631–1702) * Sebastian Anton Scherer (1631–1712) *

Francesco Antonio Urio Francesco Antonio Urio (1631/32 – c. 1719) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. Life Urio was born in Milan in 1631 or 1632, and died there in (or after) 1719. Urio held ''maestro di cappella'' posts in: Spoleto's Cathedral (1679), Urbin ...

(1631/1632–c. 1719) *

Jean-Baptiste Lully Jean-Baptiste Lully ( , , ; born Giovanni Battista Lulli, ; – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born French composer, guitarist, violinist, and dancer who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he ...

(1632–1687) *

Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers (c. 1632, Paris – 13 November 1714) was a French organist, composer and theorist. His first ''livre d'orgue'' is the earliest surviving published collection with traditional French organ school forms (a collection by Loui ...

(1632–1714) *

Giovanni Battista Vitali Giovanni Battista Vitali (18 February 1632 – 12 October 1692) was an Italian composer and violone player. Life and career Vitali was born in Bologna and spent all of his life in the Emilian region, moving to Modena in 1674. His teacher in his ...

(1632–1692) *

Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy (1633 – 11 March 1694) was a French harpsichordist, organist and composer.The registration of baroque organ music Barbara Owen - 1997 "Jean-Nicolas Geoffrey (fl. 1633-94)" His birthplace is unknown; he died in Perpignan. ...

(1633–1694) *

Sebastian Knüpfer Sebastian Knüpfer (6 September 1633 – 10 October 1676) was a German composer, conductor and educator. He was the ''Thomaskantor'', cantor of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig and director of the towns's church music, from 1657 to 1676.''Grove Concise ...

(1633–1676) *

Joseph Chabanceau de La Barre Joseph Chabanceau de La Barre (21 May 1633, in Paris – 6 May 1678, in Paris) was a French composer, notably of the ''air de cour.''Catherine Gordon-Seifert ''Music and the Language of Love: Seventeenth-Century French Airs'' He was son of Pi ...

(1633–1678) *

Pavel Josef Vejvanovský Pavel Josef Vejvanovský (c. 1639 – 24 July 1693) was a Czechs, Czech-Moravian composer and trumpeter of the Baroque music, Baroque period. Life Vejvanovský was born probably in Hlučín (possibly in Hukvaldy), probably in 1639 or 1640 (1633 i ...

(c. 1633/1639–1693) * Innocent Boutry (1634-1690/95) *

Clamor Heinrich Abel Clamor Heinrich Abel (1634 – 25 July 1696) was a German composer, violone player and organist. Abel was born in Hünnefeld, Westphalia, Germany. He worked as a court musician in Köthen, an organist in Celle and from 1666, as a ducal ch ...

(1634–1696) *

Antonio Draghi Antonio Draghi (17 January 1634 – 16 January 1700) was a Baroque composer. He possibly was the brother of Giovanni Battista Draghi. Draghi was born at Rimini in Italy, and was one of the most prolific composers of his time. His contribution t ...

(c. 1634–1700) *

Carlo Grossi Carlo Grossi (c. 163414 May 1688) was an Italian composer. Life He is believed to have been the first composer to use the term "divertimento", in his 1681 composition ''Il divertimento de' grandi musiche da camera, ò per servizio di tavola.'' ...

(c. 1634–1688) *

Adam Krieger Adam Krieger (7 January 1634 – 30 June 1666) was a German composer. Born in Drezdenko, Driesen, Neumark, he studied organ (instrument), organ with Samuel Scheidt in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Halle. He succeeded Johann Rosenmüller as organist at Lei ...

(1634–1666) * (1634–1696) * (c. 1635–1680) *

Lambert Chaumont Lambert Chaumont (c. 1630 – April 1712) was a Flemish Baroque composer and organist. Chaumont was from the Liège area, possibly born in that city. The earliest mention of his name dates from January 1649, when he is listed as a lay brother at ...

(c. 1635–1712) * Jacques Thomelin (1635/40–1693) *

Daniel Danielis Daniel Danielis (Visé near Liège 1635- Vannes 1696) was a Belgian composer. He studied at Maastricht and was organist at Saint Lambert's Church. Between 1661 and 1681 he served as ''Kapellmeister'' at the court of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. In 1684 he ...

(1635–1696) * Johann Wilhelm Furchheim (c. 1635–1682) *

Miguel de Irízar Miguel de Irízar y Domenzain (1635–1684) was a Spanish Baroque composer. Irízar was born in Artajona and trained as a choirboy in León and Toledo. In August 1657 he became ''maestro de capilla'' in Vitoria, then in August 1671 appointe ...

(1635–1684) *

Joannes Florentius a Kempis Joannes or John ( la, Iohannes; died 425) was western Roman emperor from 423 to 425. On the death of the Emperor Honorius (15 August 423), Theodosius II, the remaining ruler of the House of Theodosius, hesitated in announcing his uncle's dea ...

(1635–after 1711) *

Paul I Paul I may refer to: *Paul of Samosata (200–275), Bishop of Antioch *Paul I of Constantinople (died c. 350), Archbishop of Constantinople *Pope Paul I (700–767) *Paul I Šubić of Bribir (c. 1245–1312), Ban of Croatia and Lord of Bosnia *Paul ...

, ''Prince Esterházy of Galántha'' (1635–1713) * Augustin Pfleger (1635–1686) * Jacek Różycki (c. 1635–1704) * Angelo Berardi (c. 1636–1694) * Giovanni Battista degli Antonii, or ''degli Antoni'' (c. 1636?–after 1696) *

Esaias Reusner Esaias Reusner (the Younger) (29 April 1636 – 1 May 1679) was a German lutenist and composer. Reusner was born in Löwenberg in Silesia, now Lwówek Śląski, Poland. His first lute teacher was his father Esaias (lutenist to the Prince of ...

(1636–1679) *

Dieterich Buxtehude Dieterich Buxtehude (; ; born Diderik Hansen Buxtehude; c. 1637 – 9 May 1707) was a Danish organist and composer of the Baroque period, whose works are typical of the North German organ school. As a composer who worked in various vocal ...

(c. 1637–1707) *

Giovanni Paolo Colonna Giovanni Paolo Colonna (16 June 1637 – 28 November 1695) was an Italian composer, teacher, organist and organ builder. In addition to being chapel-master and organist of San Petronio Basilica in Bologna, he served prominent members of the cour ...

(1637–1695) * Johann Georg Ebeling (1637–1676) * Louis-Nicolas Le Prince (1637–1693) *

Louis Chein Louis Chein (Paris, 1637-1694) was French priest and composer best known for his requiem mass for four voices published by Ballard in 1690.Jean-Paul C. MontagnieThe Polyphonic Mass in France, 1600–1780: The Evidence of the Printed Choirbooks p ...

(1637–1694) *

Giovanni Maria Pagliardi Giovanni Maria Pagliardi (1637–1702) was an Italian composer. He became de facto maestro di cappella at Florence Cathedral Florence Cathedral, formally the (; in English Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower), is the cathedral of Florence, I ...

(1637–1702) *

Bernardo Pasquini Bernardo Pasquini (Massa e Cozzile, 7 December 1637Rome, 21 November 1710) was an Italian composer of operas, oratorios, cantatas and keyboard music. A renowned virtuoso keyboard player in his day, he was one of the most important Italian compose ...

(1637–1710) *

Diogo Dias Melgás Diogo Dias Melgás (often ''Melgaz'') (Cuba (Portugal), 1638 - Évora, 1700) was a Portuguese composer of late-Renaissance sacred polyphony. Life Diogo Dias Melgás was born in Cuba, Alentejo, on 14 April 1638. He was a choirboy at the Colégio da ...

(1638–1700) *

Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani (15 July 1638 Florence –about 1693 Pistoia) was an Italian composer and violinist. He worked in the court at Innsbruck as a violinist at least between 1656 and 1660. Between 1672 and 1676 he was director of the c ...

(1638–c. 1693) *

Pietro degli Antonii Pietro degli Antonii (16 May 1639 – 25 September 1720) was an Italian composer. Life Pietro degli Antonii, son of a trombonist, spent his entire life in Bologna where he was born and died and around 1670 became a member of the prestigious Acc ...

(1639–1720) * (1639–1709) *

Alessandro Melani Alessandro Melani (4 February 1639 – 3 October 1703) was an Italian composer and the brother of composer Jacopo Melani, and castrato singer Atto Melani. Along with Bernardo Pasquini and Alessandro Scarlatti, he was one of the leading composers ...

(1639–1703) *

Johann Christoph Pezel Johann Christoph Pezel (also Petzold; his name is sometimes given in the Latinized form Pecelius) (1639 – 13 October 1694) was a German violinist, trumpeter, and composer. He lived at Leipzig from 1661 to 1681, with an interruption in 1672, w ...

(1639–1694) *

Juan García de Salazar Juan García de Salazar (12 February 1639 (baptized) – 8 July 1710) was a Spanish baroque composer best remembered for his choral works in the '' stile antico,'' though a few Spanish works in a more modern style have also survived. Salazar ...

(1639–1710) *

André Raison André Raison (c. 1640 – 1719) was a French Baroque composer and organist. During his lifetime he was one of the most famous French organists and an important influence on French organ music. He published two collections of organ works, in 16 ...

(1640s–1719) * Amalia Catharina, ''Countess of Erbach'' (1640–1697) *

Antonia Bembo Antonia Padoani Bembo (c. 1640 – c. 1720) was an Italian composer and singer. Life She was born in Venice, the daughter of Giacomo Padoani (1603–1666), a doctor, and Diana Paresco (1609–1676); she married the Venetian noble Lorenzo Bembo (1 ...

(c. 1640–1720) *

Cristoforo Caresana Cristofaro or Cristoforo Caresana (ca. 1640–1709) was an Italian Baroque music, Baroque composer, organist and tenor. He was an early representative of the Neapolitan operatic school. Born in Venice, his precise birthday is not known. After stu ...

(c. 1640–1709) * Giovanni Battista Draghi (c. 1640–1708) * Carolus Hacquart (c. 1640–1701?) * Leopold I, ''Holy Roman Emperor'' (1640–1705) *

Paolo Lorenzani Paolo Francesco Lorenzani (5 January 1640 – 28 October 1713) was an Italian composer of the Baroque Era. While living in France, he helped promote appreciation for the Italian style of music. Lorenzani was born in Rome and was trained by ...

(1640–1713) * (1640–1725) *

Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe Jean (?) de Sainte-Colombe () was a French composer and violist. Sainte-Colombe was a celebrated master of the viola da gamba. He is credited (by Jean Rousseau in his ''Traité de la viole'' (1687)) with adding the seventh string, tuned to the no ...

, the father (c. 1640–c. 1700) *

Gaspar Sanz Francisco Bartolomé Sanz Celma (April 4, 1640 (baptized) – 1710), better known as Gaspar Sanz, was a Spanish composer, guitarist, and priest born to a wealthy family in Calanda in the comarca of Bajo Aragón, Spain. He studied music, theolo ...

(1640–1710) *

Nicolaus Adam Strungk Nicolaus Adam Strungk (christened 15 November 1640 in Braunschweig – 23 September 1700 in Dresden) was a German composer and violinist. Life Nicolaus Adam was the son of the organist Delphin Strungk. He studied organ under his father, then a ...

(1640–1700) * Esther Elizabeth Velkiers (c. 1640–after 1685) * Maria Francesca Nascinbeni (1640–1680) *

Francesco Beretta Francesco Beretta (born 1640 in Rome; died 6 July 1694 in Rome) was an Italian organist, composer and Kapellmeisterhttps://musopen.org/de/music/composer/francesco-beretta/, Francesco Beretta Notenblättermusik, Musopenhttps://www.treccani.it/enc ...

(c. 1640 – 1694) * Wolfgang Caspar Printz (1641–1717) * Pierre Gaultier, dit Gaultier of Marseille (1642–1696) *

Johann Friedrich Alberti Johann Friedrich Alberti (11 January 1642 – 14 June 1710) was a German composer and organist. Alberti was born in Tönning, Schleswig. He received his musical training in Leipzig from Werner Fabricius and in Dresden from Vincenzo Albrici. T ...

(1642–1710) *

Georg Christoph Bach Georg Christoph Bach (6 September 1642 – 27 April 1697) was a German composer. He was the son of Christoph Bach and the elder brother of Johann Sebastian Bach's father Johann Ambrosius Bach. Life Georg Christoph Bach was born in Erfurt, Ger ...

(1642–1697) *

Johann Christoph Bach Johann Christoph Bach (baptised – 31 March 1703) was a German composer and organist of the Baroque period. He was born at Arnstadt, the son of Heinrich Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach's first cousin once removed and the first cousin of J.S. ...

(1642–1703) *

Giovanni Maria Bononcini Giovanni Maria Bononcini (bap. 23 September 1642 – 18 November 1678) was an Italian violinist and composer, the father of a musical dynasty. In 1671 Bononcini the elder became a court musician at Modena. His treatise, ''Musico prattico'', was ...

(1642–1678) *

Benedictus Buns Benedictus Buns, Benedictus à sancto Josepho (born ''Buns''; also ''Buns Gelriensis'' in ''Latin''; 1642 – 6 December 1716), was a priest and composer. Biography Buns was born in Geldern (near Kevelaer), which is now a part of Germany, ...

, or ''Benedictus a Sancto Josepho'' (1642–1716) * Michelangelo Falvetti (1642–1692) * Pierre-Richard Menault (1642–1694) *

Friedrich Funcke Friedrich Funcke (1642 – 20 October 1699) was a German composer. Life Funcke was born in Nossen. After studies in Wittenberg in 1660–61 he became Kantor at Perleberg. In 1664 he was appointed Kantor at St Johannis, Lüneburg where he stay ...

(1642–1699) *

Marc-Antoine Charpentier Marc-Antoine Charpentier (; 1643 – 24 February 1704) was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV. One of his most famous works is the main theme from the prelude of his ''Te Deum'', ''Marche en rondeau''. This theme is still us ...

(1643–1704) *

Johann Adam Reincken Johann Adam Reincken (also ''Jan Adams, Jean Adam'', ''Reinken, Reinkinck, Reincke, Reinicke, Reinike''; Baptism, baptized 10 December 1643 – 24 November 1722) was a Dutch/German organist and composer. He was one of the most important composers ...

(1643?–1722) *

Alessandro Stradella Antonio Alessandro Boncompagno Stradella (Bologna, 3 July 1643 – Genoa, 25 February 1682) was an Italian composer of the middle Baroque period. He enjoyed a dazzling career as a freelance composer, writing on commission, and collaborating with ...

(1643–1682) *

Ignazio Albertini Ignazio Albertini (''Albertino'') (c. 1644 – 22 September 1685) was an Italian Middle Baroque violinist and composer. Very little is known about Albertini's life. He may have been born in Milan, but first surfaces in Vienna, in a letter excha ...

(1644–1685) *

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (baptism, bapt. 12 August 1644, Stráž pod Ralskem – 3 May 1704, Salzburg) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist. Biber worked in Graz and Kroměříž before he illegally left his employer, Prince-Bishop ...

(1644–1704) *

Juan Bautista Cabanilles Juan Bautista José Cabanilles (also Juan Bautista Josep, Valencian: Joan) (6 September 1644 in Algemesí near Valencia – 29 April 1712 in Valencia) was a Spanish organist and composer at Valencia Cathedral. He is considered by many to have be ...

(1644–1712) * Maria Cattarina Calegari (1644–1675) *

Johann Samuel Drese Johann Samuel Drese (c. 1644 – 1 December 1716) was a German composer. In 1683 he was appointed ''Kapellmeister'' of the ducal court in Weimar. He held this post until his death which meant that he was in charge of music at court during almost a ...

(c. 1644–1716) * Johann Wolfgang Franck (1644–1710) *

Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco Sánchez (23 December 1644 – 23 April 1728) was a Spanish composer, musician and organist based in Peru, associated with the American Baroque. Life Torrejón y Velasco was born in Villarrobledo and spent his chi ...

(1644–1728) *

Johann Georg Conradi Johann Georg Conradi (1645 in Oettingen – 22 May 1699) was a German composer. He was, with Johann Theile, Nicolaus Adam Strungk, Johann Philipp Fortsch, Johann Wolfgang Franck and Johann Sigismund Kusser one of the main composers of the ea ...

(1645–1699) * August Kühnel (1645–c. 1700) * (1645–1705) *

Carlo Ambrogio Lonati Carlo Ambrogio Lonati, baptized Giovanni Ambrogio Leinati, also Lunati; (c.1645 – c.1712) was an Italian composer, violinist and singer. Francesco Maria Veracini described him in 1760 as one of the most virtuoso violinists of his century. ...

(c. 1645–1710) * Pierre Tabart (1645–1717) *

Christian Ritter Christian Ritter (probably 1645 to 1650 – probably after 1725) was a composer and organist of the North German organ school. Biography Ritter was probably a pupil of Christoph Bernhard in Dresden. A notice on one of his works described him as ...

(c. 1645–c. 1725) *

Andreas Werckmeister Andreas Werckmeister (November 30, 1645 – October 26, 1706) was a German organist, music theorist, and composer of the Baroque era. He was amongst the earliest advocates of equal temperament, and through this advocacy was highly influential to t ...

(1645–1706) *

Juan de Araujo Juan de Araujo (1646–1712) was a musician and composer of the Early to Mid Baroque. Araujo was born in Villafranca, Spain. By 1670 he was nominated ''maestro di cappella'' of Lima Cathedral, Peru. In the following years he travelled to P ...

(1646–1712) * Johann Fischer (1646–1716) *

Rupert Ignaz Mayr Rupert Ignaz Mayr (1646 in Schärding – 7 February 1712 in Freising) was a German violinist, composer and Kapellmeister in Munich at the court of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria Maximilian, Maximillian or Maximiliaan (Maximilien i ...

(1646–1712) * René Pignon Descoteaux (c. 1646–1728) *

Johann Theile Johann Theile (29 July 1646 – 24 June 1724) was a German composer of the Baroque era, famous for the opera ''Adam und Eva, Der erschaffene, gefallene und aufgerichtete Mensch'', first performed in Hamburg on 2 January 1678. Life After stud ...

(1646–1724) *

Pelham Humfrey Pelham Humfrey (''Humphrey, Humphrys'') (1647 in London – 14 July 1674 in Windsor) was an English composer. He was the first of the new generation of English composers at the beginning of the Restoration to rise to prominence. Life and career P ...

(1647–1674) * (1647–1702) * Michael Wise (c. 1647–1687) *

Pierre Danican Philidor Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

(1647–1730) *

Johann Michael Bach :''To be distinguished from Johann Michael Bach (1745–1820)'' Johann Michael Bach (baptised , Arnstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – , Gehren) was a German composer of the Baroque period. He was the brother of Johann Christoph Bach, as wel ...

(1648–1694) * Johann Melchior Caesar (c. 1648–1692)
:de:s:ADB:Caesar, Johann Melchior, de:s) * (1648–1726) * David Funck (1648?–after 1690) ([]) * Johann Schelle (1648–1701) * Poul Christian Schindler (1648–1740) * (1649–1732) * John Blow (1649–1708) * Jacques Boyvin (1649–1706) * Pieter Bustijn (c. 1649–1729) *

Pascal Collasse Pascal Collasse (or Colasse) (22 January 1649 (baptised) – 17 July 1709) was a French composer of the Baroque era. Born in Rheims, Collasse became a disciple of Jean-Baptiste Lully during the latter's domination of the French operatic stage ...

(1649–1709) * (1649–1726) *

Francesc Guerau Francisco Guerau (1649 – 1722) was a Spanish Baroque composer. After being born on Majorca, he entered the singing school at the Royal College in Madrid in 1659, becoming a member of the Royal Chapel as an alto singer and composer ten years late ...

(1649–1717/1722) *

Andreas Kneller Andreas Kneller (variants: Kniller, Knöller, Knüller) (23 April 1649 – 24 August 1724) was a German composer and organist of the North German school. Life Born in Lübeck, he was the younger brother of portrait painter Sir Godfrey Kneller. ...

(1649–1724) *

Johann Philipp Krieger Johann Philipp Krieger (also ''Kriger'', ''Krüger'', ''Krugl'', and ''Giovanni Filippo Kriegher''; baptised 27 February 1649; died 7 February 1725) was a German people, German Baroque composer and organist. He was the elder brother of Johann Krieg ...

(1649–1725) *

Johann Valentin Meder Johann Valentin Meder (baptised May 3, 1649 – July 1719) was a German composer, organist, and singer. (He is not to be confused with the German composer Johann Gabriel Meder, born in 1729 near Erfurt, and active in Amsterdam until 1800; nor is the ...

(1649–1719) * François-Joseph Salomon (1649–1732) * * * Pedro de Araújo (''fl.'' 1662–1705) * Alba Trissina (born 1622) *

Bartholomäus Aich Bartholomäus Aich was a South-German organist and composer in the 17th century. Little is known about his life: originally from the village of Uttenweiler near Biberach an der Riß in Upper Swabia, he was the organist of the convent of canonesses ...

(''fl.'' 1648) * (''fl.'' 1641–1644; d. 1657) * John Gamble (fl. from 1641, died 1687) * Gervise Gerrard (16??–16??) *

Bernardo Gianoncelli Bernardo is a given name and less frequently an Italian, Portuguese and Spanish surname. Possibly from the Germanic "Bernhard". Given name People * Bernardo the Japanese (died 1557), early Japanese Christian convert and disciple of Saint Franc ...

(''fl.'' early 17th century; d. before 1650) *

Louis Grabu Louis Grabu, Grabut, Grabue, or Grebus ( fl. 1665 – 1690, died after 1693) was a Catalan-born, French-trained composer and violinist who was mainly active in England. While he was probably born in Catalonia – he was later referred to as 'L ...

(''fl.'' 1665–1693) *

Nicola Matteis Nicola Matteis (Matheis) (fl. c. 1650 – after 1713) was the earliest notable Italian Baroque violinist in London, whom Roger North judged in retrospect "to have been a second to Corelli," and a composer of significant popularity in his time, t ...

(''fl.'' c. 1670–1698; d. after 1713) * , or ''Morhard'' (''fl.'' from 1662; d. 1685) * Bartłomiej Pękiel (died c. 1670) *

Bernardo Sabadini Bernardo Sabadini (also known as Sabatini) (died November 26, 1718) was an Italian opera composer. He may have been a native of Venice. A number of his operas appear to have been revisions of works by other composers to an unknown extent. He die ...

(''fl.'' from 1662; d. 1718) * Louis Saladin (''fl.'' c. 1670) * Bernardo Storace (''fl.'' 1664) * August Verdufen, or ''Werduwen'' (17th century)

Late Baroque era composers (born 1650–99)

Composers of the Late Baroque era include the following figures listed by the date of their birth: *

Cataldo Amodei Cataldo Vito Amodei (6 May 1649 13 July 1693) was an Italian composer of the mid-Baroque (music), Baroque period who spent his career in Naples. His cantatas were important predecessors to the active cantata production of 18th-century Naples, a ...

(c. 1650–c. 1695) *

Giovanni Battista Bassani Giovanni Battista Bassani (c. 1650 – 1 October 1716) was an Italian composer, violinist, and organist. Biography Bassani was born in Padua. It is thought that he studied in Venice under Daniele Castrovillari and in Ferrara under Giovanni Leg ...

(c. 1650–1716) * Giovanni Battista Brevi (c. 1650–1725) * Christian Geist (c. 1650–1711) * Johann Anton Losy ''von Losinthal'', or ''Comte d'Logy'' (c. 1650–1721) *

Guillaume Minoret Guillaume Minoret (ca. April 1650 – 1717 or December 1720) was a French baroque composer. He was of the generation of Marc-Antoine Charpentier, but unlike him only a small part of his ''œuvre'' survives. Minoret famously won one of the four rota ...

(c. 1650–1717/1720) * Juan Francisco de Navas (c. 1650–1719) * Antonio de Salazar (c. 1650–1715) * Stanisław Sylwester Szarzyński (c. 1650–c. 1720) *

Theobaldo di Gatti Theobaldo di Gatti (c.1650-1727) was a composer and musician, born in Florence. He moved from Italy to France after hearing the music of Jean-Baptiste Lully. King Louis XIV made him a naturalised French subject in 1675. In France he was simply known ...

(1650–1727) *

Pietro Torri Pietro Torri (c. 1665 or earlier, in Peschiera del Garda_Pietro_Torri,_Neue_Hofkapelle_München,_Christoph_Hammer_(2)_–_Le_Triomphe_de_la_Paixat_Christoph_Hammer">_Pietro_Torri,_Neue_Hofkapelle_München,_Christoph_Hammer_(2)_–_Le_Triomphe_de_l ...

(1650–1737) *

Robert de Visée Robert de Visée (c. 1655 – 1732/1733) was a French lutenist, guitarist, theorbist and viol player at the court of the kings Louis XIV and Louis XV, as well as a singer and composer for lute, theorbo and guitar. Biography Robert de Visée's pl ...

(c. 1650–1732/1733) * Johann Jacob Walther (1650–1717) *

Johann Georg Ahle Johann Georg Ahle (June 1651 – 2 December 1706) was a German composer, organist, theorist, and Protestant church musician. Biography Ahle was born at Mühlhausen. His father was Johann Rudolph Ahle, who supplied him with early musical training ...

(1651–1706) *

Petronio Franceschini Petronio Franceschini (Bologna, January 9, 1651 – Venice, December 4, 1680) was a Baroque composer from Italy. Biography Franceschini studied under Giacomo Antonio Perti and became also the main cellist in Basilica di San Petronio. He produced ...

(1651–1680) *

Domenico Gabrielli Domenico Gabrielli (15 April 1651 or 19 October 1659 – 10 July 1690) was an Italian Baroque composer and one of the earliest known virtuoso cello players, as well as a pioneer of cello music writing. Born in Bologna, he worked in the orchestra of ...

(1651/1659–1690) *

Gilles Jullien Gilles Jullien (c. 1651/165314 September 1703) was a French Baroque composer and organist. He is credited with bringing the style of French organ music then current in Paris to Chartres.Apel 1973, 734. Almost nothing is known about Jullien's l ...

(c. 1651/1653–1703) *

Johann Krieger Johann Krieger (28 December 1651 – 18 July 1735) was a German composer and organist, younger brother of Johann Philipp Krieger. Born in Nuremberg, he worked at Bayreuth, Zeitz, and Greiz before settling in Zittau. He was one of the most importa ...

(1651–1735) * Jean-François Lalouette (1651–1728) * David Petersen (c. 1651–1737) *

Ferdinand Tobias Richter Ferdinand Tobias Richter (22 July 1651 – 3 November 1711) was an Austrian Baroque composer and organist. Richter was born in Würzburg. From 1675 to 1679 he served as organist at Heiligenkreuz Abbey in southern Austria. In 1683 he move ...

(1651–1711) * William Turner (1651–1740) *

Johann Philipp Förtsch Johann Philipp Förtsch (14 May 1652 - 14 December 1732) was a German baroque composer, statesman and doctor. Life Förtsch was born in Wertheim and possibly received his musical education from Johann Philipp Krieger. Moving to Hamburg in 1674 to ...

(1652–1732) * (1652–1706) *

John Abell John Abell (1653 – after 1724) was a Scottish countertenor, composer and lutenist. Life and career John Abell was born in 1653 in Aberdeenshire and by 1 May 1679 he had become a member of the Chapel Royal. He was listed as a singer, lutenist ...

(1653–after 1724) *

Arcangelo Corelli Arcangelo Corelli (, also , , ; 17 February 1653 – 8 January 1713) was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era. His music was key in the development of the modern genres of sonata and concerto, in establishing the preeminence of ...

(1653–1713) *

Georg Muffat Georg Muffat (1 June 1653 – 23 February 1704) was a Baroque composer and organist. He is best known for the remarkably articulate and informative performance directions printed along with his collections of string pieces ''Florilegium Primum'' a ...

(1653–1704) *

Johann Pachelbel Johann Pachelbel (baptised – buried 9 March 1706; also Bachelbel) was a German composer, organist, and teacher who brought the south German organ schools to their peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secularity, secular music, and h ...

(1653–1706), German composer, organist and teacher *

Carlo Francesco Pollarolo Carlo Francesco Pollarolo (ca. 1653 – 7 February 1723) was an Italian composer, organist, and music director. Known chiefly for his operas, he wrote a total of 85 of them as well as 13 oratorios. His compositional style was initially indebted t ...

(c. 1653–1723) * Johann Christoph Rothe (1653–1700) *

Agostino Steffani Agostino Steffani (25 July 165412 February 1728) was an Italian ecclesiastic, diplomat and composer. Biography Steffani was born at Castelfranco Veneto on 25 July 1654. As a boy he was admitted as a chorister at San Marco, Venice. In 1667, ...

(1653–1728) * Marc'Antonio Ziani (c. 1653–1715) *

Pietro Antonio Fiocco Pietro Antonio Fiocco (or Pier Antonio or Pierre-Antoine) (3 February 1654 – 3 September 1714) was an Italian people, Italian Baroque composer. Life Pietro Antonio Fiocco was born in Venice. Nothing is known of his childhood and his musical f ...

(1654–1714) *

Servaes de Koninck Servaes de Koninck, or Servaes de Konink, Servaas de Koninck or Servaas de Konink, or Servaes de Coninck (1653/54 – c.1701) was a Flemish baroque composer of motets, Dutch songs, chamber and incidental music, French airs and Italian cantatas. A ...

(c. 1654–c. 1701) *

Christian Liebe Christian Siegmund Liebe (5 November 1654 – 3 September 1708) was a German composer. Liebe was born in Freiberg, Saxony. He studied in Leipzig, then was a private teacher in Dresden and from 1684 Rektor and organist in Frauenstein, then from 1 ...

(1654–1708) *

Vincent Lübeck Vincent Lübeck (c. September 1654 – 9 February 1740) was a German composer and organist. He was born in Padingbüttel and worked as organist and composer at Stade's St. Cosmae et Damiani (1675–1702) and Hamburg's famous St. Nikolai (1702–1 ...

(1654–1740) * Pablo Nassarre (c. 1654–c. 1730) *

Ludovico Roncalli Count Ludovico Giuseppe Antonio Filippo Roncalli, or simply Count Ludovico (1654–1713), was an Italian composer. Roncalli was born in Bergamo on 6 March 1654 and baptized at the church of San Pancrazio in the Città Alta in Bergamo on 8 June 16 ...

(1654–1713) *

Pierre Bouteiller Pierre Bouteiller (1655–1717) was a French Baroque composer. His surviving works comprise 13 petits motets The ''petit motet'' ("little motet") was a genre of domestic sacred chamber music popular in France during the baroque era. It was the sa ...

(1655–1717) *

Sébastien de Brossard Sébastien de Brossard, pronounced e.bɑs.tjẽ də brɔ.saːr (12 September 1655 – 10 August 1730) was a French music theorist, composer and collector. Life Brossard was born in Dompierre, Orne. After studying philosophy and theology a ...

(1655–1730) * Ruggiero Fedeli (c. 1655–1722)
* Juan de Lima Serqueira, Juan Serqueira de Lima (c. 1655–c. 1726) *

Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer __NOTOC__ ) , baptised = ( cs, }), Royal Bohemia, Austria , death_date = , death_place = Rastatt, Margravial Baden , occupations = organist, composer, , flourished = , era = Baroque , known_for = bringing many French elements through ...

(1656–1746) *

Marin Marais Marin Marais (; 31 May 1656, in Paris – 15 August 1728, in Paris) was a French composer and viol player. He studied composition with Jean-Baptiste Lully, often conducting his operas, and with master of the bass viol Monsieur de Sainte-Colomb ...

(1656–1728) *

Jean-Baptiste Moreau Jean-Baptiste Moreau (c.1656 – 24 August 1733) was a French composer of the baroque period. He served as the master of music at the court of Louis XIV. His compositional output includes several motets and music for the theatre. Life and care ...

(1656–1733) * James Paisible, or ''Jacques Paisible'' (c. 1656–1721) *

Georg Reutter Georg Reutter (3 November 1656 – 29 August 1738) was an Austrian organist, theorbo player, and composer. Biography Georg Reutter was born in Vienna and became a pupil of Johann Caspar Kerll, whom he later succeeded as organist at St. Stephen ...

(1656–1738) *

Thomas Tudway Thomas Tudway (died 1726) was an English musician and Professor of Music at Cambridge University. He is known as a composer, and for his compilation of a collection of Anglican church music. Life Tudway was born probably before 1650, as he becam ...

(c. 1656–1726)
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Matías Juan de Veana Matías Juan de Veana ( Xàtiva, c. 1656after 1708) was a Spanish composer. He was chapelmaster both at the Real Monasterio de la Encarnación and at the Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales in Madrid, and became known for his ''villancico The ' ...

(c. 1656–after 1708) *

Johann Paul von Westhoff Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656 – buried 17 April 1705) was a German Baroque composer and violinist. One of the most important exponents of the Dresden violin school, he was among the highest ranked violinists of his day, and composed some of the ...

(1656–1705) *

Philipp Heinrich Erlebach Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (25 July 1657 – 17 April 1714) was a German Baroque composer, a prolific writer of church music and secular music. Much of his work is lost due to a fire. Life Erlebach was born in Esens, Lower Saxony, the son of Jo ...

(1657–1714) *

Michel-Richard de Lalande Michel Richard Delalande e Lalande'' (; 15 December 1657 – 18 June 1726) was a French Baroque composer and organist who was in the service of King Louis XIV. He was one of the most important composers of grands motets. He also wrote orch ...

, or ''Delalande'' (1657–1726) *

Gaetano Greco Gaetano Greco (c. 1657c. 1728) was an Italian Baroque composer. He was the younger brother of Rocco Greco ( c.1650 - before 1718). Both brothers were trained at, and later taught at the Poveri di Gesu` Cristo conservatory in Naples. Gaetano Greco's ...

(c. 1657–c. 1728) *

Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni (Rieti, 18 March 1657 – Rome, 1 February 1743) was an Italian organist and composer. He became one of the leading musicians in Rome during the late Baroque era, the first half of the 18th century. Life Taken to Rome as ...

(1657–1743) * Damian Stachowicz (1658–1699) *

Giuseppe Torelli Giuseppe Torelli (22 April 1658 – 8 February 1709) was an Italian violist, violinist, teacher, and composer of the middle Baroque era. Torelli is most remembered for contributing to the development of the instrumental concerto., especially con ...

(1658–1709) * Sybrandus van Noordt (1659–1705)
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Henry Purcell Henry Purcell (, rare: September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer. Purcell's style of Baroque music was uniquely English, although it incorporated Italian and French elements. Generally considered among the greatest E ...

(1659–1695) *

Francesco Antonio Pistocchi Francesco Antonio Mamiliano Pistocchi, nicknamed Pistocchino (165913 May 1726), was an Italian singer, composer and librettist.Talbot, Michael''The chamber cantatas of Antonio Vivaldi'' Boydell Press, 2006, p. 52. Pistocchino was born in Paler ...

(1659–1726) * Theodor Schwartzkopff (1659–1732)
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Antonio Veracini Antonio Veracini (17 January 1659 – 26 October 1733) was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era. Veracini was born in Florence, Italy, the eldest son of Francesco di Niccolò Veracini, a noted violinist who ran a music schoo ...

(1659–1745) * Sainte-Colombe, the son (1660–1720) * Henrico Albicastro, or ''Johann Heinrich von Weissenburg'' (c. 1660–after 1730) * Rosa Giacinta Badalla (c. 1660–c. 1710) * Francesco Ballaroti (c. 1660–1712)
* (c. 1660–1732) *

André Campra André Campra (; baptized 4 December 1660 – 29 June 1744) was a French composer and conductor of the Baroque era. The leading French opera composer in the period between Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau, Campra wrote several '' tra ...

(1660–1744) * Jerónimo de Carrión (1660–1721) *

Sebastián Durón Sebastián Durón (19 April (baptized) 1660 – 3 August 1716) was a Spanish composer. Life and career Sebastián Durón Picazo was, with Antonio de Literes, the greatest Spanish composer of stage music of his time. He was born in Brihuega, G ...

(1660–1716) *

Gottfried Finger Gottfried Finger (ca. 1655-6 – buried 31 August 1730), also Godfrey Finger, was a Moravian Baroque composer. He was also a virtuoso on the viol, and many of his compositions were for the instrument. He also wrote operas. Finger was born in Olom ...

(1660–1730) *

Johann Joseph Fux Johann Joseph Fux (; – 13 February 1741) was an Austrian composer, music theory, music theorist and pedagogy, pedagogue of the late Baroque music, Baroque era. His most enduring work is not a musical composition but his treatise on counterpoin ...

(1660–1741) * Friedrich Gottlieb Klingenberg (c. 1660?–1720)
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Johann Kuhnau Johann Kuhnau (; 6 April 16605 June 1722) was a German polymath, known primarily as a composer today. He was also active as a novelist, translator, lawyer, and music theorist, and was able to combine these activities with his duties in his offi ...

(1660–1722) *

Johann Sigismund Kusser Johann Sigismund Kusser or Cousser (baptized 13 February 1660 – before 17 November 1727) was a composer born in the Kingdom of Hungary who was active in Germany, France, and Ireland. Life The son of Johann Kusser, a Protestant cantor in Press ...

(1660–1727) * Gaspard Le Roux (c. 1660–1707) * Jacques-François Lochon (c. 1660–c. 1710) *

''le fils'' (the younger) (c. 1660–c. 1720)
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Alessandro Scarlatti Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti (2 May 1660 – 22 October 1725) was an Italian Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the most important representative of the Neapolitan school of opera. ...

(1660–1725) *

Johannes Schenck Johannes Schenck (or Johan Schenk, 3 June 1660–after 1712) was a Dutch musician and composer. Schenck was born in Amsterdam and baptized in a Catholic hidden church. He became a renowned virtuoso viola da gamba player. His compositions includ ...

(1660–c. 1712) *

Christian Friedrich Witt Christian Friedrich Witt, or Witte (c. 1660 – 13 April 1716) was a German composer, music editor and teacher. Biography He was born in Altenburg, where his father, Johann Ernst Witt, was court organist; he had come from Denmark around 1650 w ...

(c. 1660–1717) *

Georg Böhm Georg Böhm (2 September 1661 – 18 May 1733) was a German Baroque organist and composer. He is notable for his development of the chorale partita and for his influence on the young J. S. Bach. Life Böhm was born in 1661 in Hohenkirchen. He ...

(1661–1733) * Henri Desmarest (1661–1741) *

Francesco Gasparini Francesco Gasparini (19 March 1661 – 22 March 1727) was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher whose works were performed throughout Italy, and also on occasion in Germany and England. Biography Born in Camaiore, near Lucca, he studied in ...

(1661–1727) *

Giacomo Antonio Perti Giacomo Antonio Perti (6 June 1661 – 10 April 1756) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. He was mainly active at Bologna, where he was ''Maestro di Cappella'' for sixty years. He was the teacher of Giuseppe Torelli and Giovanni Bat ...

(1661–1756) *

Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier, nicknamed Giovannino del Violone (''Little John of the Violone'') (c. 1662 – 29 March 1700) was a Baroque music, Baroque Italian composer, cellist and trombone player of Spanish descent. Life Lulier was born and died ...

(c. 1662?–1700) *

Angiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi Angiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi (1662 – 19 April 1708) was an Italians, Italian composer and painter. Biography Angiola Moratori was born in Bologna, the daughter of a Bolognese physician, and married Tomaso Scanabecchi Monetta. She studied ...

(1662–1708) *

Jean-Baptiste Drouard de Bousset Jean-Baptiste Drouard de Bousset (1662 - 3 October 1725) was a French baroque composer. He was born in Asnières, of minor nobility, and became ''maître de musique'' of the chapelle of the Louvre. He died in Paris Paris () is the Capit ...

(1662–1725) * Pirro Capacelli Albergati (1663–1735) *

Johann Nikolaus Hanff Johann Nikolaus Hanff (25 September 1663 – 25 December 1711) was a North German organist and composer. Hanff was born in Wechmar in Thuringia and worked in Eutin, Hamburg and Schleswig. In 1696 he became organist and conductor to the Bishop ...

(1663–1711) *

Franz Xaver Murschhauser Franz Xaver Anton Murschhauser (1 July 1663 – 6 January 1738) was a German composer and theorist. He was born in Saverne, Alsace, but he is first mentioned as a singer and instrumentalist at St Peter's School in Munich, in 1676. He studied mu ...

(1663–1738) *

Jean-Baptiste Matho Jean-Baptiste Matho (16 March 1663 – 16 March 1743) was a French composer of the Baroque era. Born in Montfort-sur-Meu near Rennes, his name was originally M. F. H. Thomassin. As a child, Matho attracted attention for the quality of his singing ...

(1663–1743) *

Nicolas Siret Nicolas Siret (3 March 1663 – 22 June 1754) was a French baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was born and died in Troyes, France, where he worked as organist in the Church of Saint Jean and the Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Pau ...

(1663–1754) *

Tomaso Antonio Vitali Tomaso Antonio Vitali (7 March 1663 – 9 May 1745) was an Italian composer and violinist of the mid to late Baroque era. The eldest son of Giovanni Battista Vitali, he is chiefly known for a Chaconne in G minor for violin and continuo, to whi ...

(1663–1745) *

Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow or Zachau (14 November 1663, Leipzig – 7 August 1712, Halle) was a German musician and composer of vocal and keyboard music. Life Zachow probably received his training from his father, the piper Heinrich Zachow, o ...

, or ''Zachow'' (1663–1712) *

Jean Mignon Jean may refer to: People * Jean (female given name) * Jean (male given name) * Jean (surname) Fictional characters * Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character * Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations * Jean ...

(1664–1694) *

Nicolas Bernier Nicolas Bernier (28 June 1664 – 5 September 1734) was a French Baroque composer. Biography He was born in Mantes-sur-Seine (now Mantes-la-Jolie), the son of Rémy Bernier and Marguerite Bauly. He studied with Antonio Caldara and is know ...

(1664–1734) *

Georg Dietrich Leyding Georg Dietrich Leyding (or Leiding) (; 23 February 1664 – 10 May 1710) was a German composer and organist associated with the North German school. Born in Bücken, close to Nienburg, his father was a riding master in the French lifeguards ...

, or ''Leiding'' (1664–1710) *

Pierre Dandrieu Pierre Dandrieu (d'Andrieu) (baptised in Angers on 21 March 1664 – 20 October 1733) was a French priest, composer and organist. Life Pierre Dandrieu was baptised in Angers. After studying with Lebègue, he held the organ of , now destroyed ...

(1664–1733) *

Louis Lully Louis may refer to: * Louis (coin) * Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name * Louis (surname) * Louis (singer), Serbian singer * HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy See also Derived or associated terms * Lewis (d ...

(1664–1734) *

Michele Mascitti Michele Mascitti (1664 in Villa Santa Maria (from Chieti); 24 April 1760 in Paris) was an Italian violinist and Baroque composer. Life Mascitti was educated by a relative, Pietro Marchitelli (1643-1729), a violinist in the royal court orchestr ...

(c. 1664–1760) *

Georg Österreich Georg Österreich (baptized on 17 March 1664 – 6 June 1735) was a German Baroque composer and collector. He is regarded as the founder of the so-called '' Bokemeyer collection'' (German: ''Sämmlung Bokemeyer'') which is now housed in the Staa ...

(1664–1735) *

Johann Christoph Pez Johann Christoph Pez, also Petz, (9 September 1664 – 25 September 1716) was a German Baroque musician, '' Kapellmeister'', and composer who worked in the courts of the Electorate of Bavaria and Duchy of Württemberg. Life Pez was born in M ...

(1664–1716) *

Daniel Purcell Daniel Purcell (c. 1664 – buried 26 November 1717) was an English Baroque composer, the younger brother or cousin of Henry Purcell. Biography Like Henry Purcell before him, Daniel Purcell joined the choir of the Chapel Royal at about the age of ...

(1664–1717) *

Johann Speth Johann (''Johannes'') Speth (9 November 1664 – after 1719) was a German organist and composer. He was born in Speinshart, some 150 km from Nuremberg, but spent most of his life in Augsburg, where he worked as cathedral organist for two ...

(1664–after 1719) *

Filippo Amadei Filippo Amadei, also known as Pippo del Violoncello ( fl. 1690–1730) was an Italian composer from Reggio Emilia, who was active in Rome and London. He appears to have worked as composer of cantatas, oratorios, and as a cellist for Cardinal O ...

, "''Pippo del Violoncello''" (c. 1665–c. 1725) *

Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter (baptised 21 February 1665, Kitzbühel – buried 24 January 1742, Passau) was an Austrian Baroque composer. Aufschnaiter received much of his musical education in Vienna, where he lived for several years. Later he got ...

(1665–1742) *

Nicolaus Bruhns Nicolaus Bruhns (also ''Nikolaus'', ''Nicholas''; late 1665 – in Husum) was a Danish-German organist, violinist, and composer. He was one of the most prominent organists and composers of his generation. Biography Bruhns was born in Schwabste ...

(1665–1697) *

Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki (ca. 1665 to 1667 – 30 April 1734) was a Polish Baroque composer. Considered one of the greatest composers of Polish Baroque music, during his lifetime he was called the "Polish Handel". Life Born in Rozbark near Byt ...

(c. 1665/1667–1734) *

Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre Élisabeth Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (, née Jacquet, 17 March 1665 – 27 June 1729) was a French musician, harpsichordist and composer. Life and works Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (née Jacquet) was born on March 17, 1665, into a ...

(1665–1729) * Joseph Valette de Montigny (1665–1738) * Jean-Baptiste Lully fils (the younger) (1665–1743) *

Giovanni Maria Ruggieri Giovanni Maria Ruggieri or Ruggeri was a Baroque composer from Italy. His dates of birth and death are uncertain, but he may have been born about 1665 in Verona and died around 1725. He is known to have flourished from 1689–1720. Life His major ...

(c. 1665–c. 1725) * José de Torres y Martínez Bravo (1665–1738) *

Francisco Valls Francisco Valls or Francesc Valls (Barcelona 1665/1671 - 2 February 1747) was a Spanish composer, theorist and '' mestre de capella.'' Among his most known works are the mass ''Missa Scala Aretina'' and tract ''Mapa Armónico Práctico''. Life In 1 ...

(1665–1747) *

Gaetano Veneziano Gaetano Veneziano (Bisceglie, 1656 – Naples, 15 July 1716) was an Italian composer.Julie Anne Sadie ''Companion to Baroque Music'' 1998 Page 77 "Veneziano. Father and son, who worked in Naples as organists, maestri di cappella and composers. Gae ...

(1665–1716) * Domenico Zanatta (c. 1665–1748)
* Jean-Conrad Baustetter (1666–1722) * Attilio Ariosti (1666–1729) * Johann Heinrich Buttstett (1666–1727) * (1666–1727) * Michelangelo Faggioli (1666–1733) * Jean-Féry Rebel (1666–1747) * Francesco Scarlatti (1666–c. 1741) * Bernardo Tonini (c. 1666–after 1727)
* Georg Bronner (1667–1720)
* Antonio Lotti (c. 1667–1740) * Jean-Louis Lully (1667–1688) * Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667–1737) * Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667–1752) * François Couperin (1668–1733) * John Eccles (composer), John Eccles (1668–1735) * Jean Gilles (composer), Jean Gilles (1668–1705) * (c. 1668–after 1731) * Georg von Bertouch (1668–1743) * Jean-Baptiste Gouffet (1669–1729) * Johann Nicolaus Bach (1669–1753) * Louis Marchand (1669–1732) * Alessandro Marcello (1669–1747) * Andreas Armsdorff (1670–1699) * Giuseppe Avitrano (c. 1670–1756) * Giovanni Bononcini (1670–1747) * (1670–1727) * Christian Ludwig Boxberg (1670–1729) * Arnold Brunckhorst (1670–1725) * Louis de Caix d'Hervelois (c. 1670–c. 1760) * Antonio Caldara (1670–1736) * Turlough O'Carolan (1670–1738) * Charles Dieupart (c. 1670–c. 1740) * Henry Eccles (1670–1742) * David Kellner (1670–1748) * Richard Leveridge (1670–1758) * (c. 1670–1719) * Jean-Baptiste Volumier, or ''Woulmyer'' (1670–1728) * Johann Hugo von Wilderer (1670/1671–1724) * Tomaso Albinoni, Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (1671–1751) * Giuseppe Aldrovandini (1671–1707) * Johann Christoph Bach (1671–1721), Johann Christoph Bach (1671–1721) * Azzolino Bernardino della Ciaja, Azzolino della Ciaja, or ''della Ciaia'' (1671–1755) * Gaspard Corrette (c. 1671–before 1733) * Charles-Hubert Gervais (1671–1744) * Teodorico Pedrini (1671–1746) * François Estienne (1671–1755) * Louis-Nicolas Blondel (?–1671) * Robert Valentine (composer), Robert Valentine, also known as ''Roberto Valentino'' (c. 1671–1747) * Carlo Agostino Badia (1672–1738) * Francesco Antonio Bonporti (1672–1749) * André Cardinal Destouches (1672–1749) * Nicolas de Grigny (1672–1703) * François Duval (disambiguation), François Duval (1672–1728) * Francesco Mancini (composer), Francesco Mancini (1672–1737) * Antoine Forqueray (1672–1745) * Georg Caspar Schürmann (1672/1673–1751) * Petrus Hercules Brehy, or ''Pierre-Hercule Bréhy'' (1673–1737)
* Antonio de Literes (1673–1747) * Santiago de Murcia (1673–1739) * Jeremiah Clarke (c. 1674–1707) * Reinhard Keiser (1674–1739) * Pierre Dumage (c. 1674–1751) * Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, called Le Romain (1674–1763) * Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco (1675–1742) * Michel de la Barre (c. 1675–1745) * Louis de La Coste, or ''Lacoste'' (c. 1675–c. 1750) * (1675–1719) * Jacques de Bournonville (1675–175?) * Giovanni Porta (c. 1675–1755) * Obadiah Shuttleworth (c. 1675?–1734) * Francesco Venturini (c. 1675–1745) * Johann Bernhard Bach (1676–1749) * Diogenio Bigaglia (1676–1745) * Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676–1749) * Thomas-Louis Bourgeois (1676–1750) * Giacomo Facco (1676–1753) * Nicolas Racot de Grandval (1676–1753) * Wolff Jakob Lauffensteiner (1676–1754) * Giuseppe Maria Orlandini (1676–1760) * John Weldon (musician), John Weldon (1676–1736) * Jean-Baptiste Anet (1676–1755) * Johann Ludwig Bach (1677–1731) * Antonio Maria Bononcini (1677–1726) * Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari (1677–1754) * Johann Wilhelm Drese (1677–1745) * Nicola Fago, Francesco Nicola Fago (1677–1745) * Jean-Baptiste Morin (composer), Jean-Baptiste Morin (1677–1745) * Alexandre Villeneuve (1677–1758) * Christian Petzold (composer), Christian Petzold (1677–1733) * Bonaventure Gilles (1678?–1758) * William Croft (1678–1727) * Ferdinando Antonio Lazzari (1678–1754) * , or ''Jean-Antoine Desplanes'' (1678–1760) * Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741), Italian composer, violinist, teacher and cleric * Manuel de Zumaya (c. 1678–1755) * Georg Friedrich Kauffmann (1679–1735) * Domenico Sarro (1679–1744) * Pietro Filippo Scarlatti (1679–1750) * Johann Christian Schieferdecker (1679–1732) * Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745) * Françoise-Charlotte de Senneterre Ménétou (1679–1745) * Toussaint Bertin de la Doué (c. 1680–1743) * William Corbett (composer), William Corbett (1680–1748) * Giuseppe Fedeli, or ''Joseph Saggione'' (c. 1680–c. 1745) * Jean-Adam Guilain (c. 1680–after 1739) * Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London, Jean-Baptiste Loeillet ''of London'' (1680–1730) * Giovanni Mossi (c. 1680?–1742) * (c. 1680–c. 1740) * Jean-Baptiste Stuck (1680–1755) * Richard Jones (composer), Richard Jones (1680–1744) * Emanuele d'Astorga (1681–1736) * Carl Heinrich Biber (1681–1749) * Francesco Bartolomeo Conti (1681–1732) * Johann Mattheson (1681–1764) * Anne Danican Philidor (1681–1728) *

(1681–1731) * Giovanni Reali (composer), Giovanni Reali (c. 1681–after 1727)
* Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) * Giuseppe Valentini (1681–1753) * Paolo Benedetto Bellinzani (1682–1757) * Giacobbe Cervetto (c. 1682–1783) * Jean-François Dandrieu (c. 1682–1738) * Jean-Joseph Mouret (1682–1738) * Valentin Rathgeber (1682–1750) * Pietro Baldassare (c. 1683–after 1768) * Roque Ceruti (c. 1683–1760) * Christoph Graupner (1683–1760) * Johann David Heinichen (1683–1729) * Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764) * (1683–1742) * François d'Agincourt (1684–1758) * François Bouvard (c. 1684–1760) * Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský (1684–1742) * Francesco Durante (1684–1755) * Francesco Manfredini (1684–1762) * (1684–1712) * Johann Theodor Roemhildt (1684–1756) * Johann Gottfried Walther (1684–1748) * Giuseppe Matteo Alberti (1685–1751) * Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), German composer and organist * Louis-Antoine Dornel (c. 1685–1765) * Lodovico Giustini (1685–1743) * Henri-Guillaume Hamal (1685–1752) * George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) * Václav Gunther Jacob (1685–1734)
* Jacques Loeillet (1685–1748) * Roland Marais (c. 1685–c. 1750) * Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel (c. 1685–1764) * Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757) * Pietro Giuseppe Gaetano Boni (c. 1686–after 1741)
* Jean-Joseph Fiocco (1686–1746) * François Campion (1686–1747) * Benedetto Marcello (1686–1739) * Nicola Porpora (1686–1768) * Giovanni Battista Somis (1686–1763) * Jean-Baptiste Senaillé, Jean-Baptiste Semaillé (1687–1730) * Johann Adam Birkenstock (1687–1733) * Henry Carey (writer), Henry Carey (1687–1743) * Willem de Fesch (1687–1761) * Johann Ernst Galliard (1687–1749) * Francesco Geminiani (1687–1762) * Johann Georg Pisendel (1687–1755) * Jean Baptiste Senaillé (1687–1730) * Jean-Baptiste-Maurice Quinault (1687–1745) * Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687–1750) * Michele Falco (c. 1688–after 1732) * Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688–1758) * Jacob Herman Klein, Jacob Klein (1688–1748)
* Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of Ghent, Jean-Baptiste Loeillet ''de Ghent'' (1688–1720) * Joseph Michel (1688–1736) * Thomas Roseingrave (1688–1766) * Domenico Zipoli (1688–1726) * Jacques Aubert (1689–1753) * Jean Cappus, Jean-Baptiste Cappus (1689–1751) * William Babell (c. 1689–1723) * Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689–1755) * Jan Josef Ignác Brentner (1689–1742) * Charles Levens (1689–1764) * Pietro Gnocchi (1689–1775) * Jean-Baptiste Quentin (before 1690–c. 1742) (not to be confused with his son 1718–c. 1750) * Francesco Barsanti (1690–1775) * (c. 1690?–c. 1740) * Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello (c. 1690 – 1758) * Fortunato Chelleri (1690–1757) * François Colin de Blamont (1690–1760) * Giovanni Antonio Giay, Giovanni Antonio Giai, or ''Giay'', ''Giaj'' (1690–1764) * Johann Tobias Krebs (1690–1762) * Gottlieb Muffat (1690–1770) * Jacques-Christophe Naudot (c. 1690–1762) * Charles Theodore Pachelbel (1690–1750) * Manuel José de Quirós (c. 1690?–1765) * Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690–1749) * Carlo Tessarini (1690–1766) * Francesco Maria Veracini (1690–1768) * Leonardo Vinci (c. 1690–1730) * Jean-Baptiste Niel (Nieil or Nielle) (1690–1775) * Robert Woodcock (c. 1690 – 1728) * Francesco Feo (1691–1761) * Jan Francisci (1691–1758) * Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch (1691–1765) * Louis Homet (1691–1767) * Martin Berteau (1691-1771) * Geminiano Giacomelli or ''Jacomelli'' (1692–1740) * Antonio Palella (1692–1761) * Giovanni Alberto Ristori (1692–1753) * Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770) * Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer (1692–1766) * Louis Lemaire (1693?–1750?) * Laurent Belissen (1693–1762) * Šimon Brixi (1693–1735) * Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin (1693–1768) * Christoph Förster (1693–1745) * Gregor Werner, Gregor Joseph Werner (1693–1766) * Louis-Claude Daquin (1694–1772) * (1694–1762) * Pierre-Claude Foucquet (1694–1772) * Leonardo Leo (1694–1744) * Antonín Reichenauer (c. 1694–1730) * Johan Helmich Roman (1694–1758) * Luigi Merci (c.1695–1750) * Johann Lorenz Bach (1695–1773) * Pietro Locatelli (1695–1764) * Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault (1695–1791) * Giuseppe Sammartini (1695–1750) * Ernst Gottlieb Baron (1696–1760) * Pierre Février (1696–1760) * Jean-Philippe Borbollono (1696–?) * Maurice Greene (composer), Maurice Greene (1696–1755) * Johann Melchior Molter (1696–1765) * Johann Caspar Vogler (1696–1763) * Andrea Zani (1696–1757) * Esprit Antoine Blanchard, Esprit-Antoine Blanchard (1696–1770) * Josse Boutmy (1697–1779) * Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel (1697–1775) * Louis-Maurice de La Pierre (1697–1753) * Adam Falckenhagen (1697–1754) * Johann Christian Hertel (1697/1699–1754) * Jean-Marie Leclair ''l'aîné'' (1697–1764) * Giuseppe de Majo (1697–1771) * Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697–1763) * Johann Pfeiffer (1697–1761) * Johann Joachim Quantz (1697–1773) * Francesco Antonio Vallotti (1697–1780) * Pietro Auletta (c. 1698–1771) * Antonio Bioni (1698–1739) * Henry Madin (1698–1748) * Riccardo Broschi (c. 1698–1756) * François Francoeur (1698–1787) * František Jiránek (1698–1778) * Nicola Logroscino, Nicola Bonifacio Logroscino (1698–c. 1764) * (1698–1754) * Jean-Baptiste Forqueray ''le fils'' (1699–1782) * Joseph Gibbs (composer), Joseph Gibbs (1699–1788) * Johann Adolph Hasse (1699–1783) * Juan Francés de Iribarren (1699–1767) * Jan Zach (1699–1773) *Jean-Baptiste Dutartre (16..-1749) * Ignazio Pollice or ''Pulici'' (''fl.'' 1684–1705) * John Baston (''fl.'' 1708–1739) * (''fl.'' 1733–1758) * Domenico Della Bella (''fl.'' c. 1700–1715) * Michielina della Pietà, Michielina Della Pietà (''fl.'' c. 1701–1744) * Charles Dollé (''fl.'' 1735–1755; d. after 1755) * Giovanni Giorgi (composer), Giovanni Giorgi (''fl.'' from 1719; d. 1762) * Caterina Benedicta Grazianini (born 17th century; ''fl.'' from 1705) * Maria Margherita Grimani (b. before 1700; ''fl.'' 1713–1718) * Benoit Guillemant (''fl.'' 1746–1757) * Gottfried Lindemann (''fl.'' 1713–1741; d. 1741) * Le Sieur de Machy (d. after 1692) * Jacques Morel (composer), Jacques Morel (''fl.'' c. 1700–1749) * Antonio Orefice (''fl.'' 1708–1734) * Mrs Philarmonica (''fl.'' 1715) * Julie Pinel (''fl.'' 1710–1737) * Marieta Morosina Priuli (''fl.'' 1665) * Camilla de Rossi (''fl.'' 1707–1710) * Giovanni Zamboni (later 17th century–after 1718)

Early Galante era composers – transition from Baroque to Classical (born 1700 and after)

Composers during the transition from the Baroque to Classical eras, sometimes seen as the beginning of the Galante music, Galante era, include the following figures listed by their date of birth: * Romano Antonio Piacentino (c. 18th century) * Louis-Joseph Marchand (17??-1743) * Philibert Delavigne (c. 1700–1750) * Francesco Biscogli (after 1700–after 1750) * Mlle Guédon de Presles (early 18th century–1754) * Johann Bernhard Bach (the younger) (1700–1743) * João Rodrigues Esteves (1700–1751) * François-Lupien Grenet (1700-1753) * Jean-Baptiste Masse (c. 1700–c. 1757) * Sebastian Bodinus (c. 1700–1759) * Louis-Antoine Lefèbvre (1700-1763) * Domenico Dall'Oglio (c. 1700–1764) * Nicola Fiorenza (after 1700–1764) * Michel Blavet (1700–1768) * Christophe Moyreau (1700-1774) * Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700–1775) * Johan Agrell (1701–1765) * François Rebel (1701–1775) * Jean-Pierre Guignon (1702-1774) * Alessandro Besozzi (1702–1775) * Johann Ernst Eberlin (1702–1762) * José de Nebra (1702–1768) * Francisco António de Almeida (c. 1702–1755) * Joseph-Hector Fiocco (1703–1741) * René Drouart de Bousset, René Drouard de Bousset (1703-1760) * John Frederick Lampe (1703–1751) * Johann Gottlieb Graun (1703–1771) * Jean-Marie Leclair the younger, Jean-Marie Leclair ''le cadet'' (the younger) (1703–1777) * Carlo Zuccari (1703–1792) * Carlos Seixas (1704–1742) * Rosanna Scalfi Marcello (1704 or 1705–after 1742) * Carl Heinrich Graun (1704–1759) * Giovanni Battista Pescetti (c. 1704–c. 1766) * František Tůma (1704–1774) * Philippe Courbois (1705-1730) * Nicolas Chédeville (1705–1782) * Henri-Jacques de Croes (1705–1786) * Michael Christian Festing (1705–1752) * Louis-Gabriel Guillemain (1705–1770) * Johann Peter Kellner (1705–1772) * Peter Prelleur (c. 1705?–1741)
* Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, Pancrace Royer (1705–1755) * Andrea Bernasconi (c. 1706–1784) * Carlo Cecere (1706–1761) * Baldassare Galuppi (1706–1785) * Johann Gottfried Donati (1706-1782) * William Hayes (composer), William Hayes (1706–1777) * Giovanni Battista Martini, or ''Padre Martini'' (1706–1784) * Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Jean Barrière (1707–1747) * Thomas Chilcot (c. 1707–1766)
* Michel Corrette (1707–1795) * Ignacio de Jerusalem (c. 1707–1769) * Johann Baptist Georg Neruda (c. 1707–c. 1780) * Pietro Domenico Paradisi, Domenico Paradies or ''Pietro Domenico Paradisi'' (1707–1791) * António Teixeira (1707–1769) * Felix Benda (1708–1768) * Egidio Duni (1708–1775) * Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (1708–1763) * Václav Jan Kopřiva, known as ''Urtica'' (1708–1789) * Georg Reutter II, Georg Reutter (the younger) (1708–1772) * Johann Adolph Scheibe (1708–1776) * Francesco Araja (1709–after 1762) * Franz Benda (1709–1786) * Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709–1758) * Christoph Schaffrath (1709–1763) * Charles Avison (1709–1770) * Domenico Alberti (c. 1710–1740) * André-Joseph Exaudet (1710-1762) * Joseph Abaco, or ''dall'Abaco'' (1710–1805) * Thomas Arne (1710–1778) * Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710–1784) * Élisabeth de Haulteterre (''fl.'' 1737–1768) * Salvatore Lanzetti (1710–1780) * Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736) * William Boyce (composer), William Boyce (1711–1779) * Ignaz Holzbauer (1711–1783) * Gaetano Latilla (1711–1788) * Davide Perez (1711–1778) * Chadwille Wagon (1711-1799) * Barbara of Portugal (1711–1758) * Charles-Henri de Blainville (1711-1769) * Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville (1711–1772) * James Oswald (composer), James Oswald (1711–1769) * Frederick the Great (1712–1786) * John Hebden (1712–1765) * Jacopo Puccini, Giacomo Puccini senior (1712-1781) * Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) * John Christopher Smith (1712–1795) * John Stanley (composer), John Stanley (1712–1786) * Antoine Dauvergne (1713–1797) * Johan Henrik Freithoff (1713–1767) * Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713–1780) * Johann Nicolaus Mempel (1713–1747) * Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788) * John Alcock (organist), John Alcock (1715–1806) * Jacques Duphly (1715–1789) * Josef Seger (1716–1782) * Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia (1716–1801) * Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz (1717–1757) * Richard Mudge (1718–1763) * Abraham Caceres (1718–1740) * Leopold Mozart (1719-1787) * Joan Baptista Pla, Joan Baptista Pla i Agustí (c. 1720–1773) * Pieter Hellendaal (1721–1799) * Matthias Vanden Gheyn (1721–1785) * Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (1723–1787) * Rafael Antonio Castellanos (c. 1725–1791) * Karl Kohaut (1726–1784) * Henri Moreau (composer), Henri Moreau (1728–1803) * Pierre van Maldere (1729–1768) * Antonio Soler (1729–1783) * Capel Bond (1730–1790) * Gabriele Leone (c. 1735-1790) * Simon Simon (1735?-1787?) * José Joaquim dos Santos (1747?–1801) * Alexander Maasmann (''fl.'' 1713) * Santa della Pietà (''fl.'' c. 1725–1750, d. after 1774)

Transition from Renaissance to Baroque (born 1500–49)

Early Baroque era composers (born 1550–99)

Middle Baroque era composers (born 1600–49)

Late Baroque era composers (born 1650–99)

Early Galante era composers – transition from Baroque to Classical (born 1700 and after)

Brief timeline

See also