+ Renaissance composers Name Lifetime Nationality Works and remarksRef. (Reference) Italian Italian Serbian German Italian Also known as Jovannes de Florentia, Giovanni degli Organi and Giovanni di Niccol English Has works preserved in the first layer of the Old Hall Manuscript and elsewhere. His identity is unclear; probably English, but possibly from France. French English Italian Also known as Gratiosus de Padua Italian Also known as Antonius de Civitate Austrie French German Italian Italian French Polish Franco Flemish French Italian Also known as Ugolino da Orvieto Italian French Franco Flemish French Also known as Bertrand di Vignone Italian French English Very likely to be Henry V of England (1387–1422) Franco Flemish Also spelled Lymburgia; also called Johannes Vinandi English English French French Burgundian Italian Spanish Burgundian French French French Franco Flemish especially active in German speaking areas during the early Reformation period German Italian English Franco Flemish Franco Flemish French English Italian Dance master French Franco Flemish French Franco Flemish French French Franco Flemish Franco Flemish Franco Flemish Active in the Low Countries and Italy Spanish Or Johannes de Wreede English English theorist and composer mainly active in Italy. English Burgundian French English Italian Dancing master Franco Flemish English English Some of his music is collected in the Eton Choirbook. French Franco Flemish English Franco Flemish Franco Flemish Franco Flemish Spanish Italian French Spanish French German Polish English Franco Flemish Franco Flemish German Franco Flemish Serbian Franco Flemish French French French Franco Flemish English Has a number of works preserved in the Eton Choirbook; at least three Magnificat settings and two masses have been lost. English English Major contributor to the Eton Choirbook. Franco Flemish German French French German Or Judenkönig Franco Flemish Franco Flemish Italian Franco Flemish Active in Italy English Presumably identical with the Sturton who composed the six part Ave Maria ancilla Trinitatis in the Lambeth Choirbook, he contributed a Gaude virgo mater Christi to the Eton Choirbook, the six voices of which cover a fifteen note range French Brother of Antoine de Févin Franco Flemish English Has a single surviving work, a setting of Salve regina, in the Eton Choirbook; a work known as Haycomplayne's Gaude, dated 1529, has been lost Franco Flemish French Also known as Lourdault French German Franco Flemish Franco Flemish Most famous composer of the Grande chapelle of the Habsburg court Franco Flemish Franco Flemish French Spanish Spanish English German Portuguese English Major contributor to the Eton Choirbook Italian English Probably the son of William Cornysh the elder Spanish English Major contributor to the Eton Choirbook French Active in Lorraine Scottish Spanish French Brother of Robert de Févin Italian Italian French Franco Flemish German Active in the Low Countries English French Franco Flemish Italian Italian English Represented by a work in the Gyffard partbooks and manuscript sources Italian French Active in Italy Franco Flemish Spanish English French Italian English has two surviving pieces, a five part Magnificat and a seven part Gaude flore virginali, in the Eton Choirbook. German Franco Flemish Franco Flemish Franco Flemish Served Mary, Queen of Hungary for most of his career French Italian Italian Franco Flemish Also called Jacob Godebrye French Franco Flemish Spanish Or Mateu Fletxa el Vell German French German German Polish French Italian Early madrigalist, active at Ferrara English Scottish Wrote a mass on L'Homme armé (the only known by a British composer) and a nineteen part O bone jesu English Franco Flemish Active in France Swiss Active in Germany English One of the main contributors to The Mulliner Book German English German Italian Italian Franco Flemish Popular composer of chansons in the 1530s Italian Franco Flemish German English Polish Also known as Sebastian Herburt Swiss French Also known as Pierre Regnault French Franco Flemish founder of the Venetian School; active in Italy; influential as a teacher as well as a composer Italian Possibly the earliest composer of madrigals, though not in name Italian Early composer of madrigals; possibly related to Costanzo Festa Italian English Italian In the employ of the Medici; music teacher to sculptor Benvenuto Cellini Franco Flemish French Best known as a printer, especially of Parisian chansons German French German Czech German Franco Flemish prominent contrapuntist of generation after Josquin; worked for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Italian Early composer of madrigals; member of Sistine Chapel choir German Italian Italian German Franco Flemish Spanish Spanish Spanish Italian Spanish Spanish Franco Flemish Active at Venice, and assisted in the development of the instrumental ricercar Portuguese Franco Flemish Active in England Franco Flemish Music director for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, in the 1540s and 1550s, after Nicolas Gombert Portuguese Polish Also known as Mikołaj z Krakowa Spanish French Italian Portuguese Franco Flemish Early madrigalist Spanish English Franco Flemish A member of Charles V's imperial chapel English Franco Flemish Italian Also known as Ambrosio Lupo, de Almaliach and Lupus Italus; active in England Franco Flemish Czech Active in Kutná Hora Hungarian Franco Flemish Most famous of the early madrigalists Italian Also known as Paolo Antonio del Bivi Italian Rore Also an instrumentalist; active in Ferrara German Italian Music printer French French Italian Spanish Franco Flemish Also spelled Tylman; was also an influential music publisher Spanish Spanish Spanish Spanish Franco Flemish Active in northern Italy French Franco Flemish Active in Spain Italian French Hungarian English Produced the first musical setting for the English liturgy, publishing The Booke of Common Praier Noted, 1549; surviving works include a Missa Per arma iustitie; almost burnt as a heretic in 1543 Franco Flemish active in Italy and southern France Franco Flemish Also known as Jacques Clément Italian German Franco Flemish Scottish French Dutch Active in Rome Italian English Also spelled Parsely; wrote a set of Lamentations for Holy Week French Franco Flemish Maestro di capilla for Philip II of Spain after Cornelius Canis Italian Madrigalist; father of Alfonso Ferrabosco Franco Flemish active in Rome Italian Also a trombonist; active at Lucca French English Franco Flemish German Dutch Italian Calabrian madrigalist, active in Sicily Spanish Italian Franco Flemish Active at Ghent; influenced by Josquin Italian Franco Flemish Italian Maestro di cappella at Ferrara after Italian French Greek French Italian Madrigalist, active at Ferrara French Italian English Miserere for keyboard in a British Museum MS Italian Madrigalist, active at Milan and Bergamo English Portuguese French Active in Rome Polish Franco Flemish French French Active at Cambrai French German Italian Madrigalist, native of Padua Italian Father of composer Michelagnolo Galilei and astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei English Spanish Franco Flemish Italian Franco Flemish Prolific composer of madrigals Czech Italian Minor member of the Venetian School French Franco Flemish Italian Italian Italian French English English Spanish Franco Flemish Active in Italy Italian Minor madrigalist, active at Treviso; follower of Willaert German Italian English Spanish Czech English Father of John Mundy; his output includes fine examples of both the large scale Latin votive antiphon and the short English anthem, as well as Masses and Latin psalm settings; his style is vigorous and eloquent; represented in The Mulliner Book and in the Gyffard partbooks Italian Franco Flemish French English Composed 12 Offertory settings for keyboard, including the popular Felix namque, and an alternatim organ Mass for Easter, containing the only known sequence setting of the time; his keyboard writing is extremely virtuosic for the period German Cuban Portuguese French French Italian Father of Lodovico Agostini Italian Italian French Czech French Dutch Franco Flemish Spanish Active in Guatemala and Mexico Franco Flemish Italian Uncle of Giovanni Gabrieli Italian Italian Franco Flemish Italian Italian Illegitimate son of Agostino Agostini Italian Madrigalist in Milan; follower of Cipriano de Rore English Latin music includes antiphons, Credo quod redemptor, Domine quis habitabit, Magnificat and Jam Christus astra; also three responds from the Office of the Dead, songs (including Pandolpho), In nomine settings for ensemble, and a galliard Italian Active in several cities in northern Italy; composed both sacred and secular music Italian Madrigalist and teacher of Monteverdi; active at Cremona Italian Madrigalist; founder of the Sicilian school Italian Polish Italian Polish Franco Flemish Active in Italy Italian Dance master Italian Italian French French English Italian Franco Flemish French Italian Italian Musician to the Medici; composer of the colossal 60 voice Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno Italian Active in Italy and Germany English Also spelled Strowger, Strowgers; three (probably four) keyboard pieces in a Christ Church, Oxford, manuscript, and a Fantasia in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (No. 89); an In nomine exists in a Bodleian manuscript Italian Franco Flemish Italian Franco Flemish Active in Venice, Italy Polish Also known as Marcin ze Lwowa English Italian English Also spelled Woodcoke, Woodecock; his Browning my dear is one of several pieces of the period based on a popular tune, also known as The leaves be green Italian German Italian Composed liturgical music and madrigals; active at Mantua and Graz Spanish Franco Flemish Italian Also known as Gioseffo da Lucca Italian Also spelled Nanini; brother of Giovanni Bernardino Nanino Italian Active in England Italian Italian Franco Flemish Flemish composer in the Spanish Netherlands English Italian Active at Milan; madrigalist and organist English Spanish Polish Also known as Jacob Polonais, Jakub Reys, Jacques le Polonois and Jacob de Reis; active in France Italian Late madrigalist at Ferrara Spanish Active in Palermo, Sicily and later in Salamanca; published motets in 1588 French Portuguese Italian Franco Flemish Active in Stuttgart and Munich Franco Flemish Active in the Habsburg chapels of Spain and the Low Countries Italian Italian Spanish Spanish Franco Flemish Active in Italy French French Italian Italian Italian Italian Italian Italian English Spanish Italian Earliest known Jewish composer of polyphonic music, active at Mantua Italian French Active in England and Germany Spanish Czech Spanish Polish Portuguese Slovenian Also known as Jacob Handl; active in Moravia and Bohemia Czech Polish Italian Italian One of the founders of opera Spanish Italian Italian German German English Also spelled Hoop; contributed to Michael East's psalter and William Leighton's Teares, and wrote some intensely expressive anthems; has two keyboard pieces in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book English Also spelled Inglott; two keyboard pieces in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book; there is also an untitled keyboard piece by 'Englitt' in a MS in the British Museum Italian Italian Italian Franco Flemish Active in Italy Italian Nephew of Andrea Gabrieli Italian Franco Flemish Italian English Possibly Welsh Spanish Portuguese Italian English Son of William Mundy; published a volume of Songs and Psalms in 1594, contributed to the Triumphs of Oriana, composed English and Latin sacred music, and is represented with five pieces in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book; his Goe from my window variations are a particularly fine example of the genre German Polish Franco Flemish French English Dutch Italian Italian English English Italian English Also known as Sir Ferdinando Heybourne; there survives a keyboard Pavan and Galliard, each with variation, in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book Franco Flemish Italian Italian Maestro di cappella at Vicenza Italian German English English Exiled to Flanders Italian Brother of Giovanni Francesco Anerio Polish Lithuanian Italian Worked all his life in Poland English Organist at Norwich Cathedral (from 1594 to 1608); a single piece by him exists in Ravenscroft's 1621 collection Spanish English Active in Denmark and Germany English Italian Brother of Giovanni Maria Nanino Italian Italian German Italian Italian Italian Italian Irish Franco Flemish Active in Spain Italian Italian Also known as Spongia German Spanish English Exiled to the Netherlands French Franco Flemish German Franco Flemish English English English Father of the poet John Milton; composed madrigals, one of which was printed in The Triumphs of Oriana, as well as anthems, Psalm settings, a motet, and some consort music including a six part In nomine Czech German English Also spelled Danyell; brother of the poet Samuel Daniel (spellings of the names of the two brothers differ) Italian Italian English English Probably father of John Hilton 'the younger' (1599–1657) German English English English Lutenist Italian English Italian Italian Portuguese Italian Portuguese Portuguese French Also a lutenist Italian Burgundian French German Italian Dutch Italian Italian Brother of Felice Anerio Italian English Also spelled Campian; the only English composer to experiment with musique mesurée, and the first to imitate the Florentine monodists German Italian Italian Spanish English English Responsible for the earliest known use of col legno in Western music English Italian Franco Flemish Spanish Dutch Danish English Italian Italian French Italian German English Italian English Also known as Thomas Lupo The Elder; composer of several works, but solid attribution of many works to him or another of his relatives is difficult English German Portuguese Italian Italian Active in Florence. Collaborated with Giulio Caccini on the early opera Il rapimento di Cefalo English Contributed to Michael East's psalter and The Triumphs of Oriana and more German English English Czech German French English May be the same person as Martin Pearson; four keyboard pieces in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book; many works also published English Brother of Orlando Gibbons Italian Franco Flemish Active in Spain and the Netherlands Danish German English Franco Flemish Active in Italy Italian Italian Believed to be the same person as Raffaella Aleotti (c. 1570 – after 1646) English Portuguese Italian English English English Portuguese French Italian Active in Bavaria and Poland; son of composer Vincenzo Galilei; brother of astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei Italian Italian English Illegitimate son of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder English English Primarily known from one published work, The XIII Wonders of the World, published in London in 1611; It contains twelve songs, six duets for lute and viol, and seven pieces for lyra viol with optional bass viol Italian Italian Italian English Published five volumes of simple and melodious lute songs, and one of madrigals Italian English German English Irish English Also spelled Cosin, Cosens; compiler of the manuscript Cosyn's Virginal Book Danish Irish English English German English Published a volume of five and six part madrigals in 1619; his best known piece is Sweet Suffolk Owl English There survive nine plainsong settings, one hexachord, and three voluntaries for double organ in a Christ Church autograph MS, among others Italian German Italian English Probably the son of Thomas East Italian English His Canzonets to Three Voyces, although clearly the work of an amateur, have charm and individuality Italian German German Italian Italian Brother of Domenico Allegri English Published a book of psalms amongst others Italian Italian Italian English Active in Denmark English Active in England and Scotland Italian English German Danish Italian Dutch Italian German German Italian Italian Brother of Gregorio Allegri Italian German Italian German German Italian German Italian German German French Italian French English German Croatian English French English Madrigalist; publications include instrumental toccatas, sinfonias and ritornellos as well as vocal pieces Italian Polish English Book of Ayresin MS bears a dedication to Prince Henry dated 1609, but was never published English Italian Italian German Portuguese Danish English Composed mythological and biblical dialogues, such as Dives and Abraham, Saul and the Witch of Endor, and Orpheus and Pluto Polish Polish German Dutch English Two 18th century arrangements for viols of keyboard pavans in a MS in the British Museum survive English Son of John Dowland; only three works are definitely ascribed to him: two lute pieces in the 'Varietie of Lute Lessons' and one in the 'Margaret Board Lutebook' French English Dutch German German German English English German Dutch French French Swedish German German English French French Czech German English Composed English and Latin church music, and consort songs, in humorous rather than melancholy vein, and contributed to The Triumphs of Oriana English Portuguese English English Portuguese English English Spanish English English Polish English French