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Philippe de Monte
Philippe de Monte was a Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He wrote more madrigals than any other composer of the Renaissance, and was one of the most influential composers of the form. More »
Andreas Pevernage
Andreas Pevernage was a Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the minority of composers from the Low Countries who stayed in his native land throughout the turbulent period of religious conflict in the late 16th century, and was a skilled composer of chansons, motets and madrigals. More »
Hubert Waelrant
Hubert Waelrant was a Flemish composer, teacher, and music editor of the Renaissance. As a composer he was a member of the generation contemporary with Palestrina, though unlike the most famous composers of the time he mostly worked in northern Europe, and in addition he was progressive in the use of chromaticism and dissonance. More »
Gilles Joye
Gilles Joye was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. A member of the Burgundian school, he was known mainly for his secular songs which were in a lyrical and graceful style. More »
Lupus Hellinck
Lupus Hellinck was a Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was a prominent composer of masses, as well as German chorales and motets. Although he was a Roman Catholic all of his life, his music shows evidence of sympathy for the Protestant Reformation, and three of his motets – including a famous setting of ''In te domine speravi'' – were probably inspired by the prison writings of the martyred reformer Girolamo Savonarola. More »
Antonius Divitis
Antonius Divitis was a Flemish composer of the Renaissance, of the generation slightly younger than Josquin des Prez. He was important in the development of the parody mass. He was born in Leuven. He first appears in the historic record in 1501 in Bruges, at the church of St. Donatian, where he taught singing to the choirboys. Later in 1501 he became singing master, then he became succentor, and at the end of 1501 was ordained a priest. He took a similar musical post in Mechelen at the... More »
Dominique Phinot
Dominique Phinot was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active in Italy and southern France. He was highly regarded at the time for his motets, which anticipate the style of Palestrina, and in addition he was an early pioneer of polychoral writing. More »
Jacob Clemens non Papa
Jacobus Clemens non Papa was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was a prolific composer in many of the current styles, and was especially famous for his polyphonic settings of the psalms in Dutch known as the ''Souterliedekens''. More »
Alan Stivell
Alan Stivell is a Breton musician whose family came from the town of Gourin. He spent his childhood in Paris, absorbing the music of the city's many different populations from across France, Algeria, Morocco and elsewhere. He became interested in Breton music and culture, however, and returned often to Brittany as a teenager. His stage name, ''Stivell'', means "fountain" or "spring" in Breton. This name refers both to the Breton renewal and to his name "Cochevelou", evolution of ''kozh... More »
Thomas Fabri
Thomas Fabri is a composer from the Netherlands, who worked probably around the 1400s. More »
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