Chapter 5A. Runners-up - Additional Notable Composers from the Pre-Bach Era

 

A few more Notable Pre-Bach Composers

 Some more composers you've probably never heard of from the first 500 years of music history. Each is known for at least one great piece of music:

Agricola, Alexander (1446-1506); Flemish- Magnificat

Alfonso X "El Sabio" (1252-1284); Spanish  - Cantigas de Santa Maria

Allegri, Gregorio (1582-1652) Italian -  Miserere mei, Deus

Arcadelt, Jacob (c.1505-1568); French – Pater Noster; Il bianco e dolce cigno

Banchieri, Adriano (1568-1634); Italian - Contrappunto bestiale alla mente  Il Zabaione musicale

Binchois, Gilles de Bins dit (c.1400-1460); Flemish - Esclaphe / Anonym: Redeuntes; Quatre chansons  

Blow, John (1649-1708); English - Symphony Anthems; Venus and Adonis

Boni, Guillaume  (1530 -1594); French - Rossignol mon mignon

Brumel, Antoine (1460-1515); French - Sicut lilium inter spinas ; Missa Et ecce terrae motus

Bull, John (1562-1628); English – Why Aske you 

Busnois, Antoine (ca. 1430-1492); French - Alleluya  

Cabezon, Antonio de (1510-1566); Spanish - Tientos y Glosados

Caccini, Giulio Romano (1551-1618); Italian - Ave Maria

Caldera, Antonio (1670-1736); Italian – Dies Irae 

Campion, Thomas (1567-1620); English - First Book Of Ayres

Cara, Marchetto (1465-1527); Italian - Non è tempo

Carissimi, Giacomo (1605-1674); Italian - Piorate filii Israel (Jeptha) 

Carver, Robert  (1484-1568); Scottish - Dum sacrum mysteriu

Ciconia, Johannes (1335-1411); Italian- O Rosa Bella

Cavalli, (Pier) Francesco (1602-1676); Italian - Messa concertata (Kyrie)

Compère, Loyset (1445-1518); French – Magnificat

Cornago, Johannes  (1455-1475); Spanish - Missa de la Mappa Mundi Kyrie

Cornet, Pieter (1570-1633); Flemish- Courante - Salve Regina 

Cornysh, William (c.1468-1523); English – Stabat Mater

Couperin, Louis (1626-1661); French - Suite in D major 

D'Anglebert, Jean-Henri (1635-1691); French – Suite in G Minor for Harpsichord 

Delalande, Michel Richard (1657- 1726); French - De Profundis; Suite No. 5 from Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roy

Dowland, John (1563-1626); English - Lachrimae  

Du Caurroy, Eustache (1549-1609); French – Agnus Dei

Fayrfax, Robert (1464-1521); English - Magnificat Regale á 5

Fischer, Johann Caspar (1656-) 1746 Czech/German - Overture (Suite) in C Major, Op. 1, No. 8

Frescobaldi, Girolamo (1583-1643); Italian – Prelude for Organ; Masses 

Froberger, Johann Jacob (1616-1667); German - Suite XIX, C minor 

Frye, Walter (?-1474) English - Alas alas is my chief  

Fux, Johann Joseph (1660-1741); Austrian - Overture in D Minor 

Gabrieli, Andrea (ca. 1520-1586); Italian – Prelude for Organ; Jubilate Deo

Gombert, Nicolas (ca. 1490-1556); Belgian - Missa Sur tous regretz

Goudimel, Claude (ca. 1520-1572); French - Psalm 104, Sciogl' al Signor alma mia canti bei, a 4

Grigny, Nicolas de (1672-1703; French- Livre d'Orgue - Messe  

Guerrero, Francisco (1528-1599); Spanish – Ave Maria

Hassler, Hans Leo (1562-1612); German - Missa Secunda

Isaac, Heinrich (ca. 1450-1517); Flemish - Missa de Apostolis

Janequin, Clément (c.1485-1558); French - Le chant des oyseaulx

Jenkins, John (1592–1678); English - Fantasia-Suite in A Minor

Kinloch, William (fl. ca 1600); Scottish- Fantasy (Among The Cottonwoods)

Kuhnau, Johann (1660-1722); Bohemian - Magnificat in C major  

La Rue, Pierre de (1452 –1518) French - Requiem

Landini, Francesco (1325-1397); Italian - Amor c'al tuo sugetto

Lawes, William (1602-1645); English- Set a6 in g – FANTAZY  

Le Jeune, Claude (1528-1600); French - Louë tous ce Dieu qui est dous

Locke, Matthew (1621-1677); English - The Tempest: Incidental Music

Lotti, Antonio (1667-1740); Italian - Missa Sapientiae 

Luzzaschi, Luzzasco (1545-1607); Italian - Lungi da te cor mio; Toccata del quarto tuono

Macque, Giovanni De (1548-1614); Dutch/Italian - Consonanze Stravaganti

Marais, Marin (1656-1728); French - Chaconne in A Major  

Marenzio, Luca (1553-1599); Italian - Tribus Miraculis

Morales, Cristobal de (1500-1553); Spanish - Missa pro Defunctis: Introitus, Kyrie

Morley, Thomas (1557-1602); English - Various madrigals and canzonets

Muffat, Georg (1653-1704); French/German - 'Florilegium Secundum (Suite in D minor No.1 'Nobilis Juventus')

Mundi, William (1529-1591); English - Magnificat

Negri, Cesare (ca. 1535-c.1604); Italian - Catena d'Amore

Penulosa, Francisco de (1470-1528); Spanish - Missa L'Homme armé

Philips, Peter (1560-1628); English - Ascendit Deus

Porpora, Nicola (1686-1768); Italian - Magnificat 

Praetorius, Michael (1571-1621); German - Dances from Terpsichore  

Rossi, Salomone (1570-c.1630); Italian - Kaddish

Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660-1725); Italian - Toccata for harpsichord in G minor; Stabat Mater for soprano, alto and orchestra in C minor  

Scheidt, Samuel (1587-1654); German - Echo in a minor 

Schein, Johann Hermann (1586-1630); German - Cantata - Maria, gegrüßet seist du 

Schmelzer, Johann (1620-1680); Austrian - Sonata quarta

Senfl, Ludwig (ca. 1486-c.1543); Czech/German - Es hett ein Biedermann ein Weib; Carmen in La

Sermisy, Claudin de (ca. 1490-1562); French - Tant que vivrayvita

Sheppard, John (ca. 1515-1560); English -  Media 

Stradella, Alessandro (1642-1682); Italian - Pietà, Signore 

Susato, Tielman (d c.1561); Belgian - Fanfare; Pavane "La Battaille"

Taverner, John (ca. 1490-1545); English - Mater Christi sanctissima

Titelouze, Jehan (1562-1633); French - Veni Creator

Torelli, Giuseppe (1650-1708); Italian – Trumpet Concerto in D Major 

Trabaci, Giovanni Maria (1575-1647); Italian - Partite sopra Ruggero 

Tromboncino, Bartolomeo (c.1470-c.1535); Italian - Ostinato vo seguire 

Tye, Christopher (ca 1505-1573); English - Missa Euge Bone

Vitry, Philippe de (1291-1361); French - Vos qui admiramini

Willaert, Adrian (1490-1562); Flemish/Italian - Missa Christus Resurgens

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