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Composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Def ...
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Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including ...
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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 (1530–1605/1620) * Mateo Flecha the Younger (1530–1604) * Gianmatteo Asola (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 V ...
(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 wa ...
(1533–1604) * Francesco Soto de Langa (1534–1619) *
Rocco Rodio Rocco Rodio (c. 1535 – 1607) was an Italian Renaissance composer and theorist, best known for his sacred works and keyboard ricercares. Biography He was born in Bari and apparently led a cosmopolitan life, at some point working at the Po ...
(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 S ...
(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 wa ...
(1540–after 1609) * Tiburzio Massaino (1540–after 1608) *
Hernando de Cabezón Hernando de Cabezón, (Baptism, 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 fat ...
(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 16 ...
(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), seve ...
(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 Gál ...
(1545–1606) * Manuel Mendes (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 bo ...
(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 Re ...
(1548–1611) * Eustache Du Caurroy (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 st ...
(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 t ...
(c. 1550–1602) * Cesario Gussago (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 (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, an ...
(1550–1605) * Guillaume de Chastillon, sieur de La Tour (c. 1550–1610) * Tomasz Szadek (1550–1612) * Krzysztof Klabon (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 Pedro de Cristo (1545/1550 – 12 December 1618) was a Portuguese composer of Renaissance music. He is one of the most important Portuguese polyphonists of the 16th and 17th centuries. Life Pedro de Cristo was born in Coimbra, and in 1571 enter ...
(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 (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 o ...
(1551–1618) * Benedetto Pallavicino (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 ...
(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 ...
(1553–1606) *
Elway Bevin Elway Bevin (c.1554-1638) was a Welsh-born organist and composer. Briefly a vicar choral at Wells Cathedral, in 1585 he was appointed Master of the Choristers at Bristol Cathedral. He was sworn a gentleman-extraordinary of the Chapel Royal on 3 J ...
(1554–1638) * William Inglot (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, Lom ...
(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 (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 (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 compos ...
(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 Engl ...
(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 polyphon ...
(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 c ...
(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 (1560–1614) * Giulio Belli (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 wi ...
(c. 1560/1565–1618) * Camillo Lambardi (c. 1560–1634

* Giovanni Bernardino Nanino (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 (1560–1610) * Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (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 (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 r ...
(1560–1627) * Petrus de Drusina (1560–1611) * Juan Esquivel Barahona (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 th ...
(1561–1633) * Francesco Usper, 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 voc ...
(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 Renaissance to Baroque in instrumental music, transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque period. Life Giles Farnaby was ...
(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 politica ...
(1563–1647) *
Cornelis Verdonck Cornelis Verdonck (1563 – 5 July 1625) was a Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the last members of the Franco-Flemish school of polyphony, and was a notable composer of madrigals in a style that blended both Italian and na ...
(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 Nür ...
(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 (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 (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 for musical, rather than religious reasons, although he had taken h ...
(c. 1565–1628) * Duarte Lobo (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; ...
(c. 1565–1627) * Giovanni Pietro Flaccomio (1565–1617) * Simone Molinaro (1565–1615) * Francis Pilkington (c. 1565–1638) *
Manuel Cardoso Manuel Cardoso may refer to: * Manuel Cardoso (composer) * Manuel Cardoso (cyclist) * Manuel Cardoso (gymnast) Manuel Cardoso (born 17 June 1928) was a Portuguese gymnast. He competed in eight events at the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 S ...
(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 (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 ...
(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 (1567–1638) * Girolamo Giacobbi (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 (''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 consider ...
(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 Nothin ...
(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 was bo ...
(1568–1634) * Christian Erbach (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 fir ...
(1568–1650) * Giovanni Francesco Anerio (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 (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 came ...
(c. 1570–1622) * Peeter Cornet (c. 1570/1580–1633) * Pierre Guédron (c. 1570–c. 1620) * Paul Peuerl (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 bor ...
(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 (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 of ...
(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 (1572–1619) * Melchior Borchgrevinck (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 ...
(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 m ...
(1572–1656) * Moritz von Hessen-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 W ...
(1573–1603) * Géry de Ghersem (1573/1575–1630) * Cesarina Ricci ''de Tingoli'' (born c. 1573, ''fl.'' 1597) * Claudio Pari (1574–after 1619) * Francesco Rasi (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 (1574–1627) * John Bennet (1575–after 1614) * Vittoria Aleotti (c. 1575–after 1620) * Abundio Antonelli (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 archaeolo ...
(c. 1575–1645) * Estêvão de Brito (1575–1641) * John Coprario, 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 (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 w ...
(1575–1631) * Ennemond Gaultier, ''le Vieux Gaultier'' (1575–1651) * (c. 1575–1627?) * Léonard de Hodémont (c. 1575–1639) * Esteban López Morago, or ''Estêvão Lopes Morago'' (c. 1575–after 1630) * Giovanni Priuli (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, anth ...
(1576–1623) * John Maynard (1577–between 1614 and 1633) * Robert Jones (1577–1617) * Stefano Bernardi (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 period. He was a student of Giovanni Maria Nanino and served as the organist at San Miniato in Tuscany from 16 ...
(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 re ...
(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 innovatio ...
(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 (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-Italian virtuoso performer and composer of the early Baroque period. A prolific and highly o ...
, or ''Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger'' (c. 1580–1651) * John Lugg (1580–1647/1655) * Hans Nielsen (1580-1626) * François Richard (1580–1650) * Johann Stobäus (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 Bernardi ...
(c. 1580–1638) * Bellerofonte Castaldi (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 priest and Italian composer of the Roman School and brother of Domenico Allegri; he was also a singer. He was born"Allegri, Gregorio" in ''Chambers's Encyclopædia''. London: George Newne ...
(1582–1652) *
Severo Bonini Severo Bonini (23 December 1582 – 5 December 1663) was an Italian composer, 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 Forlì from 1613 ...
(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 pro ...
(c. 1582–c. 1635) *
Thomas Simpson Thomas Simpson FRS (20 August 1710 – 14 May 1761) was a British mathematician and inventor known for the eponymous Simpson's rule to approximate definite integrals. The attribution, as often in mathematics, can be debated: this rule had been ...
(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 ...
(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 fam ...
(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 J ...
(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 159 ...
(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 (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 brot ...
(1585–1629) * Antoine Boësset, ''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 b ...
(1585–1656) * Johann Grabbe (1585–1655) *
Alessandro Grandi Alessandro Grandi (1590 – after June 1630, but in that year) was a northern Italian composer of the early Baroque era, writing in the new concertato style. He was one of the most inventive, influential, and popular composers of the time, proba ...
(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 ...
(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 (1585–after 1626) *
Jacob Praetorius Jacob Praetorius or Schultz (8 February 158621 or 22 October 1651) was a German Baroque composer and organist, and the son of Hieronymus Praetorius. His grandfather, the father of Hieronymus, Jacob Praetorius the Elder (died 1586) was also a compo ...
(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, proba ...
(1586–1630) * Johann Hermann Schein (1586–1630) * Paul Siefert (1586–1666) * John Adson (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 music, Baroque era. She was also known by the nickname "La Cecchina" , given to her by the Florence, Fl ...
(1587–c. 1640) * Ivan Lukačić (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 Guillaume Bouzignac (c. 1587 – c. 1643) was a French composer. Bouzignac was probably born in 1587 in Saint-Nazaire-d'Aude. He studied at the Cathedral of Narbonne until 1604, and was choirmaster at the Cathedrals of Angoulême, Bourges, T ...
(1587–1643) * Charles d'Ambleville (1588–1637) * Walter Porter (1588–1659) * (1588–1671) *
Johann Andreas Herbst Johann Andreas Herbst (baptized June 9, 1588 – January 24, 1666) was a German composer and music theorist of the early Baroque era. He was a contemporary of Michael Praetorius and Heinrich Schütz, and like them, assisted in importing the gran ...
(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 Midwestern United States under the pseudonym The Bishop. A machinist and lifelong resident of Dubuque, Iowa ...
(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 (c. 1590?–1638) * Hans Brachrogge (c. 1590-c. 1638) * Dario Castello (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 vice ...
(c. 1590–1664) *
Adam Jarzębski Adam Jarzębski (c. 1590 in Warka – c. 1648 in Warsaw) was an early Baroque Polish composer, violinist, poet, and writer. The first documented mention of Jarzębski was in 1612, when he became a member of the chapel of John Sigismund, Elector ...
(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 (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 (c. 1592–1670) * Jacques Gaultier (1592–1652) * Paul Auget (1592–1660) * John Jenkins (1592–1678) * Domenico Mazzocchi (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 probab ...
(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 (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 Veni ...
(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 p ...
(1594/1595–1665) * Antonio Maria Abbatini (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 Ro ...
(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 Fray Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde (c. 1595, in Cuenca – after 1638) was a Spanish Baroque composer and virtuoso player of the dulcian, a predecessor to the modern bassoon. He was an Augustinian friar who was employed at the archducal court ...
(c. 1595–after 1638) * Heinrich Scheidemann (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 Ch ...
(1596–1687) * Giovanni Rovetta (c. 1596–1668) *
Andreas Düben Andreas Düben (1597 – 7 July 1662) was a Swedish Baroque composer and organist, and father of Gustaf Düben. He was born near Leipzig and was admitted to Leipzig University in 1609. He studied with the renowned Dutch pedagogue Jan Pieterszoon S ...
(1597–1662) * Virgilio Mazzocchi (1597–1646) * Charles Racquet (1597–1664) * Luigi Rossi (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 b ...
(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 Banc ...
(c. 1598–c. 1664) * Pierre Gaultier ''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 (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 (fl. from 1568; d. 1601) * William Tisdale (born 1570) * Henry Lichfild (died 1613) * John Bartlet (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 (fl. 1615) * Charles Coleman (died 1646) * William Corkine (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 Giovanni Battista Grillo (late 16th-century mid-November 1622) was an Italian composer and organist. Little is known about Grillo until he was elected organist to the Venetian confraternity ' Scuola Grande di S Rocco' on 28 August 1612. This was a ...
(died 1622) * Marcantonio Negri (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 (''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 he ...
(''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 (early 17th century–after 1660) * Alessandro Poglietti (early 17th century–1683) * François de La Roche (?–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 (c. 1600–1668) * (c. 1600–1675) * Simon Ives (1600–1662) * Nicolaus à Kempis (c. 1600–1676) * Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic (c. 1600–1676) * Marcin Mielczewski (c. 1600–1651) * Carlos Patiño (1600–1675) * (c. 1600–c. 1648) * Giovanni Felice Sances (c. 1600–1679) * Marco Scacchi (c. 1600–1662) * Delphin Strungk (1600/1601–1694) * Louis XIII of France, Louis XIII (1601–1643) * Michelangelo Rossi (c. 1601–1656) * Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy (1601–1675) * Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (1601/1602–1672) * Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676) * Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602–c. 1678) * William Lawes (1602–1645) * Marco Marazzoli (c. 1602–1662) * Christopher Simpson (c. 1602/1606–1669) * (1602–1677) * Benedetto Ferrari (c. 1603?–1681) * Francesco Foggia (1603–1688) * Denis Gaultier, ''Gaultier le jeune'' (1603–1672) * John IV of Portugal (1603–1656) * Caspar Kittel (1603–1639) * Natale Monferrato (c. 1603–1685) * Diego Pontac (1603–1654) * Marco Uccellini (1603/1610–1680) * Heinrich Albert (composer), Heinrich Albert (1604–1651) * François Dufault (1604–1670) * Bonifazio Graziani (1604/1605–1664) * Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy, Charles d'Assoucy (1605–1677) * Orazio Benevoli (1605–1672) * Antonio Bertali (1605–1669) * Giacomo Carissimi (1605–1674) * Francesco Sacrati (1605–1650) * Johann Vierdanck (c. 1605–1646) * Jean de Cambefort (1605–1661) * Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy (1605–1677) * William Child (1606–1697) * Michel de La Guerre (c. 1606–1679) * (1606–1677) * Urbán de Vargas (1606–1656) * Sigmund Theophil Staden (1607–1655) * Abraham Megerle (1607–1680) * Philipp Friedrich Böddecker (1607–1683) * Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor#Music, Ferdinand III, ''Holy Roman Emperor'' (1608–1657) * Jacques de Gouy (c. 1610–after 1650) * Valentin de Bournonville (1610–1663) * François Cosset (1610-1664) * Nicolas Hotman (c. 1610–1663) * João Lourenço Rebelo (1610–1661) * William Young (composer), William Young (c. 1610–1662) * Nicolas Métru (1610–1668) * Sébastien Le Camus (c. 1610–1677) * Leonora Duarte (1610–1678) * (c. 1610–after 1682) * Henri Dumont, Henri Du Mont (1610–1684) * George Jeffreys (composer), George Jeffreys (c. 1610–1685) * Michel Lambert (1610–1696) * Leonora Baroni (1611–1670) * Thomas Brewer (composer), Thomas Brewer (1611–c. 1660) * Pablo Bruna (1611–1679) * Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611/1612–1675) * Wolfgang Ebner (1612–1665) * Jacques Huyn (1613–1652) * Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg, Elisabeth Sophie, ''Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg'' (1613–1676) * Thomas Mace (c. 1613–1709?) * Louis de Mollier (c. 1613–1688)
* Giovanni Antonio Rigatti (c. 1613–1648) * Wilhelm Karges (1613/1614–1699) * Jean-Baptiste Boësset, ''Sieur de Dehault'' (1614–1685) * Philipp Friedrich Buchner (1614–1669) * Juan Hidalgo de Polanco (1614–1685) * Marc'Antonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) * Franz Tunder (1614–1667) * Yatsuhashi Kengyo (1614–1685) * Francesca Campana (c. 1615–1665) * Heinrich Bach (1615–1692) * Angelo Michele Bartolotti (c. 1615–1696) * Guillaume Dumanoir (1615–1697) * Francesco Corbetta (c. 1615–1681) * Christopher Gibbons (1615–1676) * Francisco López Capillas (c. 1615–1673) * Maurizio Cazzati (1616–1678) * Kaspar Förster (the younger) (1616–1673) * Johann Jakob Froberger (1616–1667) * Johann Erasmus Kindermann (1616–1655) * Jacques de Saint-Luc (1616–c. 1710) * Matthias Weckmann (c. 1616–1674) * Carlo Caproli (c. 1617–c. 1692) * Nikolaus Hasse (c. 1617–1672) * Francisco Martins (c. 1617?–1680)
* Joan Cererols (1618–1680) * Abraham van den Kerckhoven (c. 1618–c. 1701) * José Marín (composer), José Marín (1618–1699) * Pierre Robert (composer), Pierre Robert (c. 1618 – 1699) * (1619–1701) * Anthoni van Noordt (c. 1619–1675) * Johann Rosenmüller (1619–1684) * Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677) * Juan García de Zéspedes (c. 1619–1678) * Joannes Baptista Dolar, also ''Janez Krstnik Dolar'' or ''Jan Křtitel Tolar'' (c. 1620–1673) * Adam Drese (c. 1620–1701) * Isabella Leonarda (1620–1704) * Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c. 1620–1680) * Giovanni Battista Granata (1620/1621–1687) * Georg Arnold (1621–1676) * Albertus Bryne (1621–1668) * Massimiliano Neri (composer) (1621–1666) * Matthew Locke (composer), Matthew Locke (c. 1621–1677) * Georg Neumark (1621–1681) * Bertrand de Bacilly (1621–1690) * Heinrich Schwemmer (1621–1696) * Ercole Bernabei (1622–1687) * Jean Lacquemant, known as ''DuBuisson'' (c. 1622–1680) * Gaspar de Verlit (1622–1682) * Dietrich Becker (c. 1623–c. 1679) * Antonio Cesti (1623–1669) * Jacopo Melani (1623–1676) * David Pohle (1624–1695) * Francesco Provenzale (1624–1704) * François Roberday (1624–1680) * Johann Rudolph Ahle, Johann Rudolf Ahle (1625–1673) * Alexandre Gallot (1625–1684) * Jacques Gallot, le vieux Gallot de Paris (c. 1625–1695) * Marco Giuseppe Peranda (c. 1625–1675) * Wolfgang Carl Briegel (1626–1712) * Louis Couperin (c. 1626–1661) * Christian Flor (1626–1697) * Giovanni Legrenzi (1626–1690) * Charles Mouton (1626–1710) * Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz (1626–1667?) * Nicolas Gigault (c. 1627–1707) * Johann Caspar Kerll (1627–1693) * Christoph Bernhard (1628–1692) * Robert Cambert (c. 1628–1677) * Samuel Capricornus (1628–1665) * Constantin Christian Dedekind (1628–1715) * Gustaf Düben (1628–1690) * (1628–1686) * Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1629–1691) * Lelio Colista (1629–1680) * Lady Mary Dering (1629–1704) * Andreas Hofer (composer), Andreas Hofer (1629–1684) * (1629–1685) * John Banister (composer), John Banister (c. 1630–1679) * Cristóbal Galán (c. 1630–1684) * Filipe da Madre de Deus (c. 1630–c. 1688 or later) * Carlo Pallavicino (c. 1630–1688) * Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (c. 1630?–1669/1670) * Antonio Sartorio (1630–1680) * Vincenzo Albrici (1631–1696) * Thomas Baltzar (c. 1631–1663) * Nicolas Lebègue (1631–1702) * Sebastian Anton Scherer (1631–1712) * Francesco Antonio Urio (1631/1632–c. 1719) * Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687) * Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers (1632–1714) * Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632–1692) * Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy (1633–1694) * Sebastian Knüpfer (1633–1676) * Joseph Chabanceau de La Barre (1633–1678) * Pavel Josef Vejvanovský (c. 1633/1639–1693) * Innocent Boutry (1634-1690/95) * Clamor Heinrich Abel (1634–1696) * Antonio Draghi (c. 1634–1700) * Carlo Grossi (c. 1634–1688) * Adam Krieger (1634–1666) * (1634–1696) * (c. 1635–1680) * Lambert Chaumont (c. 1635–1712) * Jacques Thomelin (1635/40–1693) * Daniel Danielis (1635–1696) * Johann Wilhelm Furchheim (c. 1635–1682) * Miguel de Irízar (1635–1684) * Joannes Florentius a Kempis (1635–after 1711) * Paul I, Prince Esterházy, Paul I, ''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 (1636–1679) * Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637–1707) * Giovanni Paolo Colonna (1637–1695) * Johann Georg Ebeling (1637–1676) * Louis-Nicolas Le Prince (1637–1693) * Louis Chein (1637–1694) * Giovanni Maria Pagliardi (1637–1702) * Bernardo Pasquini (1637–1710) * Diogo Dias Melgás (1638–1700) * Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani (1638–c. 1693) * Pietro degli Antonii (1639–1720) * (1639–1709) * Alessandro Melani (1639–1703) * Johann Christoph Pezel (1639–1694) * Juan García de Salazar (1639–1710) * André Raison (1640s–1719) * Amalia Catharina, ''Countess of Erbach'' (1640–1697) * Antonia Bembo (c. 1640–1720) * Cristoforo Caresana (c. 1640–1709) * Giovanni Battista Draghi (composer), Giovanni Battista Draghi (c. 1640–1708) * Carolus Hacquart (c. 1640–1701?) * Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor#Music, Leopold I, ''Holy Roman Emperor'' (1640–1705) * Paolo Lorenzani (1640–1713) * (1640–1725) * Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, the father (c. 1640–c. 1700) * Gaspar Sanz (1640–1710) * Nicolaus Adam Strungk (1640–1700) * Esther Elizabeth Velkiers (c. 1640–after 1685) * Maria Francesca Nascinbeni (1640–1680) * Francesco Beretta (c. 1640 – 1694) * Wolfgang Caspar Printz (1641–1717) * Pierre Gaultier, dit Gaultier of Marseille (1642–1696) * Johann Friedrich Alberti (1642–1710) * Georg Christoph Bach (1642–1697) * Johann Christoph Bach (1642–1703) * Giovanni Maria Bononcini (1642–1678) * Benedictus Buns, or ''Benedictus a Sancto Josepho'' (1642–1716) * Michelangelo Falvetti (1642–1692) * Pierre-Richard Menault (1642–1694) * Friedrich Funcke (1642–1699) * Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704) * Johann Adam Reincken (1643?–1722) * Alessandro Stradella (1643–1682) * Ignazio Albertini (1644–1685) * Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644–1704) * Juan Bautista Cabanilles (1644–1712) * Maria Cattarina Calegari (1644–1675) * Johann Samuel Drese (c. 1644–1716) * Johann Wolfgang Franck (1644–1710) * Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco (1644–1728) * Johann Georg Conradi (1645–1699) * August Kühnel (1645–c. 1700) * (1645–1705) * Carlo Ambrogio Lonati (c. 1645–1710) * Pierre Tabart (1645–1717) * Christian Ritter (c. 1645–c. 1725) * Andreas Werckmeister (1645–1706) * Juan de Araujo (1646–1712) * Johann Fischer (composer), Johann Fischer (1646–1716) * Rupert Ignaz Mayr (1646–1712) * René Pignon Descoteaux (c. 1646–1728) * Johann Theile (1646–1724) * Pelham Humfrey (1647–1674) * (1647–1702) * Michael Wise (musician), Michael Wise (c. 1647–1687) * Pierre Danican Philidor (1647–1730) * Johann Michael Bach (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 (1649–1709) * (1649–1726) * Francesc Guerau (1649–1717/1722) * Andreas Kneller (1649–1724) * Johann Philipp Krieger (1649–1725) * Johann Valentin Meder (1649–1719) * François-Joseph Salomon (1649–1732) * * * Pedro de Araújo (''fl.'' 1662–1705) * Alba Trissina (born 1622) * Bartholomäus Aich (''fl.'' 1648) * (''fl.'' 1641–1644; d. 1657) * John Gamble (musician), John Gamble (fl. from 1641, died 1687) * Gervise Gerrard (16??–16??) * Bernardo Gianoncelli (''fl.'' early 17th century; d. before 1650) * Louis Grabu (''fl.'' 1665–1693) * Nicola Matteis (''fl.'' c. 1670–1698; d. after 1713) * , or ''Morhard'' (''fl.'' from 1662; d. 1685) * Bartłomiej Pękiel (died c. 1670) * Bernardo Sabadini (''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 (c. 1650–c. 1695) * Giovanni Battista Bassani (c. 1650–1716) * Giovanni Battista Brevi (c. 1650–1725) * Christian Geist (c. 1650–1711) * Jan Antonín Losy, Johann Anton Losy ''von Losinthal'', or ''Comte d'Logy'' (c. 1650–1721) * Guillaume Minoret (c. 1650–1717/1720) * Juan de Navas, Juan Francisco de Navas (c. 1650–1719) * Antonio de Salazar (composer), Antonio de Salazar (c. 1650–1715) * Stanisław Sylwester Szarzyński (c. 1650–c. 1720) * Theobaldo di Gatti (1650–1727) * Pietro Torri (1650–1737) * Robert de Visée (c. 1650–1732/1733) * Johann Jakob Walther (composer), Johann Jacob Walther (1650–1717) * Johann Georg Ahle (1651–1706) * Petronio Franceschini (1651–1680) * Domenico Gabrielli (1651/1659–1690) * Gilles Jullien (c. 1651/1653–1703) * Johann Krieger (1651–1735) * Jean-François Lalouette (1651–1728) * David Petersen (composer), David Petersen (c. 1651–1737) * Ferdinand Tobias Richter (1651–1711) * William Turner (composer), William Turner (1651–1740) * Johann Philipp Förtsch (1652–1732) * (1652–1706) * John Abell (1653–after 1724) * Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713) * Georg Muffat (1653–1704) * Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706), German composer, organist and teacher * Carlo Francesco Pollarolo (c. 1653–1723) * Johann Christoph Rothe (1653–1700) * Agostino Steffani (1653–1728) * Marc'Antonio Ziani (c. 1653–1715) * Pietro Antonio Fiocco (1654–1714) * Servaes de Koninck (c. 1654–c. 1701) * Christian Liebe (1654–1708) * Vincent Lübeck (1654–1740) * Pablo Nassarre (c. 1654–c. 1730) * Ludovico Roncalli (1654–1713) * Pierre Bouteiller (1655–1717) * Sébastien de Brossard (1655–1730) * Ruggiero Fedeli (c. 1655–1722)
* Juan de Lima Serqueira, Juan Serqueira de Lima (c. 1655–c. 1726) * Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656–1746) * Marin Marais (1656–1728) * Jean-Baptiste Moreau (1656–1733) * Jacques Paisible, James Paisible, or ''Jacques Paisible'' (c. 1656–1721) * Georg Reutter (1656–1738) * Thomas Tudway (c. 1656–1726)
* Matías Juan de Veana (c. 1656–after 1708) * Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656–1705) * Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (1657–1714) * Michel-Richard de Lalande, or ''Delalande'' (1657–1726) * Gaetano Greco (c. 1657–c. 1728) * Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni (1657–1743) * Damian Stachowicz (1658–1699) * Giuseppe Torelli (1658–1709) * Sybrand van Noordt the younger, Sybrandus van Noordt (1659–1705)
* Henry Purcell (1659–1695) * Francesco Antonio Pistocchi (1659–1726) * Theodor Schwartzkopff (1659–1732)
* Antonio Veracini (1659–1745) * Sainte-Colombe, the son (1660–1720) * Giovanni Henrico Albicastro, 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 (1660–1744) * Jerónimo de Carrión (1660–1721) * Sebastián Durón (1660–1716) * Gottfried Finger (1660–1730) * Johann Joseph Fux (1660–1741) * Friedrich Gottlieb Klingenberg (c. 1660?–1720)
* Johann Kuhnau (1660–1722) * Johann Sigismund Kusser (1660–1727) * Gaspard Le Roux (c. 1660–1707) * Jacques-François Lochon (c. 1660–c. 1710) * Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe the younger, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe ''le fils'' (the younger) (c. 1660–c. 1720)
* Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725) * Johannes Schenck (1660–c. 1712) * Christian Friedrich Witt (c. 1660–1717) * Georg Böhm (1661–1733) * Henri Desmarets, Henri Desmarest (1661–1741) * Francesco Gasparini (1661–1727) * Giacomo Antonio Perti (1661–1756) * Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier (c. 1662?–1700) * Angiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi (1662–1708) * Jean-Baptiste Drouart de Bousset, Jean-Baptiste Drouard de Bousset (1662–1725) * Pirro Albergati, Pirro Capacelli Albergati (1663–1735) * Johann Nikolaus Hanff (1663–1711) * Franz Xaver Murschhauser (1663–1738) * Jean-Baptiste Matho (1663–1743) * Nicolas Siret (1663–1754) * Tomaso Antonio Vitali (1663–1745) * Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau, or ''Zachow'' (1663–1712) * Jean Mignon (1664–1694) * Nicolas Bernier (1664–1734) * Georg Dietrich Leyding, or ''Leiding'' (1664–1710) * Pierre Dandrieu (1664–1733) * Louis Lully (1664–1734) * Michele Mascitti (c. 1664–1760) * Georg Österreich (1664–1735) * Johann Christoph Pez (1664–1716) * Daniel Purcell (1664–1717) * Johann Speth (1664–after 1719) * Filippo Amadei, "''Pippo del Violoncello''" (c. 1665–c. 1725) * Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter (1665–1742) * Nicolaus Bruhns (1665–1697) * Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki (c. 1665/1667–1734) * Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729) * Joseph Valette de Montigny (1665–1738) * Jean-Baptiste Lully fils (the younger) (1665–1743) * Giovanni Maria Ruggieri (c. 1665–c. 1725) * José de Torres, José de Torres y Martínez Bravo (1665–1738) * Francisco Valls (1665–1747) * Gaetano Veneziano (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) * Pierre Danican Philidor (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)


Brief timeline


See also

*Baroque music *List of classical music composers by era *List of composers by name *Women in music, Women in Music There is considerable overlap near the beginning and end of this era. See lists of composers for the previous and following eras: *List of Renaissance composers *List of Classical era composers {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Baroque Composers Lists of composers, Baroque Baroque composers, List