Musical biography : or, memoirs of the lives and writings of the most eminent musical composers and writers, who have flourished in the different countries of Europe during the last three centuries
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  Abel, Carl Friedrich (b. 1723 d. 1787) |   composer, viola da gamba |
  Abell, John (b. 1653 d. 1716 a. 1679-1700) |   composer, violin in the private music for the voic |
  Agostini, Paolo (b. 1583 d. 1629) |   composer, organ |
  Agricola, Martin (b. 1486 d. 1556) |   theorist, teacher |
  Alberti, Domenico (b. 1710 d. 1740 a. 1775-1797) |   composer, naccarino |
  Alberti, Giuseppe Matteo (b. 1685) |   basso, composer |
  Albinoni, Tommaso Giovanni (b. 1671) |   composer, musicisti |
  Alcock, John (b. 1715 d. 1806) |   organ, composer |
  Aldrich, Henry (b. 1648 d. 1710) |   divine, scholar |
  Alessandri, Felice (b. 1747 d. 1798) |   composer, compositore |
  Alison, Richard (a. 1592-1606) |   composer, professor |
  Allegri, Gregorio (b. 1582 d. 1652) |   composer, singer |
  Alsted, Johann Heinrich (b. 1588 d. 1638) |   theologian, theorist |
  Amner, John (b. 1579 d. 1641) |   composer, conductor |
  Anerio, Felice (b. 1560 d. 1614) |   composer, compositore |
  Animuccia, Giovanni (b. 1500) |   composer, compositore |
  Antoniotti, Giorgio (b. 1692 d. 1776) |   theorist, composer |
  Arcadelt, Jacques (b. 1505 d. 1568) |   composer |
  Ariosti, Attilio (b. 1666 d. 1740) |   composer |
  Arne, Michael (b. 1740 d. 1786) |   composer |
  Arne, Thomas Augustine (b. 1710 d. 1778) |   composer, violin |
  Arnold, Samuel (b. 1740 d. 1802) |   composer, organ |
  Artusi, Giovanni Maria (b. 1540 d. 1613) |   theorist, polemicist |
  Astorga, Emanuele (b. 1680 d. 1757) |   composer, barone |
  Attwood, Thomas (b. 1765 d. 1838) |   composer, organ |
  Avison, Charles (b. 1710 d. 1770) |   composer, conductor |
  Babell, William (b. 1690 d. 1723) |   violin, composer |
  Bach, Carl Philip Emanuel (b. 1714) |   Komponist, Musiker |
  Bach, Johann Christian (b. 1735 d. 1782) |   composer, Musiker |
  Bach, Johann Sebastian (b. 1685) |   composer, compositeur |
  Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann (b. 1710) |   compositore, Musiker |
  Banister, John (d. 1725) |   composer, violin |
  Banister, John (b. 1625 d. 1679) |   composer, violin |
  Barrett, John (b. 1676 d. 1719 a. 1710) |   cast, child of the Chapel |
  Barsanti, Francesco (b. 1690 d. 1772) |   composer, musician |
  Barthelemon, Francois Hippolyte (b. 1741 d. 1808) |   violin, composer |
  Bartoli, Daniello (b. 1608 d. 1685) |   scholar |
  Bassani, Giovanni Battista (b. 1657) |   composer, compositore |
  Baston, Josquin (a. 1542-1563) |   composer |
  Bates, Sarah (b. 1755 d. 1811 a. 1784) |   soprano |
  Bateson, Thomas (b. -1575 d. 1630) |   organ |
  Batten, Adrian (b. -1599 d. 1637) |   composer, singing man at Westminster |
  Battishill, Jonathan (b. 1738 d. 1801) |   organ, composer |
  Benda, Franz [Frantisek] (b. 1709 d. 1786) |   violin, composer |
  Benda, Georg (Antonin) (b. 1721 d. 1795) |   composer, Komponist |
  Benevoli, Orazio (b. 1605 d. 1672) |   compositore, musicisti |
  Bennett, John (b. -1730 d. 1784) |   organ, composer |
  Berardi, Angelo (b. 1636 d. 1694 a. 1687) |   theorist, composer |
  Berchem, Jacquet (b. 1505 d. 1565) |   composer |
  Bernabei, Ercole (b. 1622 d. 1687 a. 1650) |   composer |
  Bernabei, Giuseppe Antonio (b. 1649 d. 1732) |   composer, maestro di cappella |
  Bernard, Etienne (b. 1569 d. 1600) |   singer, composer |
  Bernier, Nicolas (b. 1665 d. 1734) |   composer, organ |
  Bertoni, Ferdinando (b. 1725) |   compositore, musicisti |
  Bevin, Elway (b. 1554 d. 1639) |   composer, theorist |
  Bianchi, John C.M. (b. 1775 d. 1802) |   violin |
  Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz (b. 1644 d. 1704) |   violin, composer |
  Birchensha, John (b. CAD2> d. 1681 a. 1672) |   theorist, composer |
  Blow, John (b. 1649 d. 1708) |   child of the Chapel, composer |
  Boccherini, Luigi [Ridolfo Luigi] (b. 1743) |   composer, compositore |
  Bona, Valerio (b. 1560 d. 1620 a. 1591-1619) |   nobile, francescano |
  Bononcini, Antonio Maria (b. 1677) |   compositore, violoncellista |
  Bononcini, Giovanni Maria (b. 1640 d. 1678) |   composer, theorist |
  Bononcini, Giovanni Maria (b. 1678 d. 1753) |   violin, cello |
  Bontempi, Giovanni Andrea (b. 1624 d. 1705) |   composer, singer |
  Bosi, Cesare (b. 1773 d. 1802) |   composer |
  Boyce, William (b. 1710 d. 1779) |   composer, organ |
  Braham, John (b. 1774 d. 1856) |   composer, lyricist |
  Brewer, Thomas (b. 1611 d. -1670) |   violin, composer |
  Britton, Thomas (b. 1644 d. 1714) |   music patron, amateur musician |
  Broschi, Riccardo (b. 1698 a. 1725) |   compositore, maestro di musica |
  Brossard, Sebastien (b. 1654 d. 1730) |   lexicographer, bibliophile |
  Bryne, Albertus (b. 1621 d. 1671) |   organ, composer |
  Buini, Giuseppe Maria (b. 1680 d. 1739) |   composer, librettist |
  Bull, John (b. -1563 d. 1628) |   librettist, musicisti |
  Burette, Pierre-Jean (b. 1665 d. 1747) |   musician, scholar |
  Burney, Charles (b. 1726 d. 1814) |   composer, storiografo |
  Busby, Thomas (b. 1755 d. 1838) |   writer, musician |
  Butler, Charles (b. 1560 d. 1647 a. 1636) |   priest, amateur musician |
  Buttstett, Johann Heinrich (b. 1666 d. 1727) |   organ, Komponist |
  Buxtehude, Dietrich (b. 1637) |   composer, musicisti |
  Byrd, William (b. 1543 d. 1623) |   composer, compositore |
  Caccini, Giulio (b. 1545 d. 1618) |   composer, singer |
  Caldara, Antonio (b. 1670 d. 1768) |   compositore, musicisti |
  Campion, Thomas (d. 1619) |   librettista, poet |
  Campra, Andre (b. 1660 d. 1744) |   composer |
  Canis, Cornelius (b. -1520 d. 1561) |   composer, imperial Kapellmeister |
  Carbonelli, Steffano (b. 1696 d. 1772) |   violin, direttore d'orchestra |
  Carey, Henry (b. 1689 d. 1743) |   composer, dramatist |
  Carissimi, Giacomo (b. 1604 d. 1670) |   composer, musicisti |
  Carter, Thomas (b. 1769 d. 1800) |   composer, singer |
  Castaldi, Bellerofonte (b. -1581 d. 1649) |   composer, theorbo |
  Castrucci, Pietro (b. 1679 d. 1752) |   violin, composer |
  Cesti, Marc Antonio (b. 1618 d. 1681) |   composer, compositore |
  Charpentier, Marc-Antoine (b. -1650 d. 1704) |   composer, musicisti |
  Child, William (b. 1606 d. 1697) |   composer, organ |
  Chilmead, Edmund (b. 1610 d. 1654) |   theorist, man of letters |
  Cifra, Antonio (b. 1584 d. 1629) |   compositore, maestro di cappella |
  Cimarosa, Domenico (b. 1749) |   composer, compositore |
  Cirri, Giovanni Battista (b. 1724 d. 1808) |   cello, composer |
  Clarke, Jeremiah (b. 1674 d. 1707) |   composer, organ |
  Clayton, Thomas (b. -1670 d. -1730) |   composer, violin |
  Clemens Non Papa (b. >1515 d. 1556) |   Komponist, compositeur de musique |
  Clementi, Muzio (b. 1752) |   composer, compositeur |
  Clerambault, Louis-Nicolas (b. 1676 d. 1749) |   compositore, organ |
  Cocchi, Gioacchino (b. 1720 d. 1788) |   compositore, dramatic composer |
  Coick, Gian (b. 1520 a. 1567) |   composer |
  Coleman, Charles (b. 1605 d. 1664) |   arranger, cast |
  Collasse, Pascal (b. 1649 d. 1709) |   composer |
  Collin de Blamont, Francois (b. 1690 d. 1760) |   composer, compositeur |
  Colonna, Fabio (b. 1580 d. 1650) |   inventor of an enharmonic harpsichord |
  Colonna, Giovanni Paolo (b. 1637) |   composer, compositore |
  Conti, Francesco Bartolomeo (b. 1681) |   ballerina, Komponist |
  Cooke, Benjamin (b. 1734 d. 1793) |   organ, composer |
  Cooke, Henry (b. 1615 d. 1672) |   singer, choir trainer |
  Coprario, John (b. -1580 d. 1626) |   composer, viola da gamba |
  Corbett, William (b. 1675 d. 1748) |   violin, composer |
  Corelli, Arcangelo (b. 1653 a. 19th century |
  composer, compositore |
  Corteccia, Francesco [Pier Francesco] (b. 1502 d. 1571) |   composer, organ |
  Cosyn, Benjamin (b. 1570 d. 1652) |   composer |
  Couperin, Francois (le grand) (b. 1668 d. 1733) |   composer, harpsichord |
  Couperin, Louis (b. 1626 d. 1661) |   composer, harpsichord |
  Cramer, Wilhelm (b. 1745 d. 1799) |   violin, Musiker |
  Cranford, William (b. CAD2> d. -1675) |   composer, singer |
  Crecquillon, Thomas (d. 1557) |   composer |
  Creighton, Robert (b. 1636 d. 1734) |   ecclesiastic, amateur composer |
  Crispi, Pietro Maria (b. 1737 d. 1797) |   composer, organ |
  Croce, Giovanni (b. 1557 d. 1609) |   composer, compositore |
  Croft, William (b. 1677 d. 1727) |   composer |
  Cruger, Pancratius (b. 1546 d. 1615) |   teacher, writer |
  Daman, William (b. 1549 d. 1591) |   composer, Royal musician |
  Dandrieu, Jean-Francois (b. 1682 d. 1738) |   musicisti, organ |
  Davy, John (b. 1763 d. 1824) |   composer |
  De Fesch, Willem (b. 1687 d. 1761) |   composer, cello |
  De la Fond, John Francis (a. 1716-1725) |   author, teacher of languages |
  Dering, Richard (b. 1580 d. 1630) |   composer, organista |
  Descartes, Rene (b. 1596 d. 1650 a. 1649) |   philosopher, mathematician |
  Desmarets, Henri (b. 1661 d. 1741) |   composer |
  Destouches, Andre (b. 1672 d. 1749) |   composer |
  Dibdin, Charles (b. 1745 d. 1814) |   composer, poet |
  Dieupart, Charles (b. 1667 d. 1740) |   violin, harpsichord |
  Diruta, Girolamo (b. 1554 d. 1610) |   compositore, organ |
  Dittenhofer, I.C. (a. 1830) |   |
  Doni, Giovanni Battista (b. 1594 d. 1647) |   classicist, Italiensk musikhistoriker |
  Dowland, John (b. 1563 d. ?) |   composer, lutenist |
  Draghi, Antonio (d. 1700) |   composer, administrator |
  Du Caurroy, Eustache (b. 1549 d. 1609) |   composer, maitre de la musique de chapelle du roi |
  Du Mont, Henry (b. 1610 d. 1684 a. 1664) |   composer, organ |
  Dubourg, Matthew (b. 1703 d. 1767) |   violin, music director |
  Dupuis, Thomas Sanders [Saunders] (b. 1730 d. 1796) |   composer, organ |
  Durante, Francisco Pasquale (b. 1684 d. 1755) |   composer |
  East, Michael (b. 1580 d. 1648) |   composer |
  Eccles, Henry (b. -1685 d. -1745) |   violin, composer |
  Eccles, John (b. 1668 d. 1735) |   composer |
  Eckard, Johann Gottfried (b. 1735 d. 1809) |   piano, composer |
  Edelmann, Jean-Frederic (b. 1749 d. 1794) |   composer, harpsichord |
  Eichner, Ernst (Dieterich Adolph) (b. 1740 d. 1777) |   bassoon, composer |
  Farmer, John (a. 1591-1601) |   madrigalist, composer |
  Farmer, Thomas (d. 1688 died: 1688) |   composer, violin |
  Farnaby, Giles (b. 1563 d. 1646) |   composer |
  Farrant, Richard (b. -1530 d. 1580) |   cathedral musician, composer |
  Felton, William (b. 1715 d. 1769) |   clergyman, organ |
  Feo, Francesco (b. 1691 d. 1761) |   composer, teacher |
  Ferrari, Benedetto (b. 1597 d. 1681 a. 17e secolo |
  librettist, librettista |
  Festa, Costanzo (b. 1490 d. 1545) |   composer, compositore |
  Festing, Michael Christian (b. 1680 d. 1752) |   composer, violin |
  Fevin, Antoine (b. 1470 d. 1512) |   composer |
  Fischer, Johann Christian (b. 1733 d. 1800) |   oboe |
  Fludd, Robert (b. 1574 d. 1637) |   physician, writer |
  Foggia, Francesco (b. 1604 d. 1688) |   composer |
  Ford, Thomas (d. 1648 a. 1611) |   composer, viol |
  Franc, Guillaume (b. 1505 d. 1570 a. 1541) |   composer, musicien |
  Frescobaldi, Girolamo (b. 1583 d. 1643) |   composer, compositore |
  Froberger, Johann Jacob (b. 1626 d. 1667) |   composer, compositore |
  Fux, Johann Joseph (b. 1660 d. 1741) |   composer, writer |
  Galliard, John Ernest (b. 1680 d. 1749) |   composer, organ |
  Galuppi, Baldassare (b. 1706 d. 1785) |   composer, compositore |
  Gasparini, Francesco (b. 1668) |   cantore, composer |
  Gastoldi, Giovanni Giacomo (b. >1555 d. 1622) |   compositore, poeta |
  Gatti, Theobaldo (b. 1650 d. 1727) |   composer, bass viol |
  Gautier, Denis (b. 1603 d. 1672 a. 1626) |   lute |
  Gautier, Pierre (d. 1638) |   composer, lute |
  Geminiani, Francesco (Xaverio) (b. 1687 d. 1762) |   violin, composer |
  Gervais, Charles Hubert (b. 1671 d. 1744 a. 1697-1720) |   composer, musicisti |
  Gesualdo, Carlo (b. 1561 d. 1613) |   nobleman, composer |
  Giachetto (a. 1580) |   musician |
  Giacomelli, Geminiano (b. 1692 d. 1740 a. 1738-1740) |   organ, composer |
  Giardini, Felice (b. 1716 d. 1796) |   composer, violin |
  Gibbons, Christopher (b. 1615 d. 1676) |   organ, composer |
  Gibbons, Edward (b. 1570 d. 1650) |   organ, composer |
  Gibbons, Ellis (b. 1573 d. 1603) |   composer |
  Gibbons, Orlando (b. 1583 d. 1625) |   composer, organ |
  Giles, Nathaniel (b. 1558 d. 1634) |   gentleman of the Chapel, organ |
  Gilles, Jean (b. 1668 d. 1705) |   composer |
  Giordani, Tommaso (b. 1733 d. 1806) |   compositore, composer |
  Giovannelli, Ruggiero (b. 1560 d. 1625) |   composer |
  Gluck, Christoph Willibald (b. 1714) |   composer, compositore |
  Goldwin, John (b. 1667 d. 1719) |   organ, composer |
  Gombert, Nicolas (b. 1495 d. 1560) |   composer, Musiker |
  Gossec, Francois-Joseph (b. 1734 d. 1829 a. 19th century |
  composer |
  Goudimel, Claude (b. -1520 d. 1572) |   composer, publisher |
  Graun, Carl Heinrich (b. 1704 d. 1759 a. 1830-1831) |   composer |
  Graun, Johann Gottlieb (b. -1703 d. 1771) |   composer |
  Greene, Maurice (b. 1696 d. 1755) |   organ, composer |
  Gregory, William (b. 1605 d. 1663) |   flute, wind instrument |
  Gretry, Andre-Ernest-Modeste (b. 1741) |   composer, compositore |
  Guglielmi, Pietro Alessandro (b. 1728 d. 1804) |   composer, compositore |
  Hall, Henry (b. 1656 d. 1707) |   organ, composer |
  Hammerschmidt, Andreas (b. 1611 d. 1675) |   composer, organ |
  Handel, George Friederic (b. 1685) |   composer, compositore |
  Hart, Philip (b. 1674 d. 1749) |   composer, organ |
  Hasse, Johann Adolph (b. 1699 d. 1783) |   composer, compositore |
  Hawkins, John (b. 1719 d. 1789) |   music historian, antiquarian |
  Hayden, George (d. 1722) |   composer, organ |
  Haydn, Josef [Franz Josef] (b. 1732 d. 1809) |   composer, Komposition |
  Haydn, Michael [Johann Michael] (b. 1737 d. 1806) |   composer, musicisti |
  Hayes, Philip (b. 1738 d. 1797) |   organ, composer |
  Hayes, William (b. 1707 d. 1777) |   composer, organ |
  Haym, Nicola Francesco (b. 1678 d. 1729) |   cello, librettista |
  Henstridge, Daniel (b. 1646 d. 1736) |   organ, composer |
  Herbst, Johann Andreas (b. 1588 d. 1666) |   theorist, composer |
  Herschel, Jacob (b. 1734 d. 1792) |   violin, musician |
  Heseltine, James (b. 1692 d. 1763) |   organ, composer |
  Heyther, William (b. 1563 d. 1627) |   lay-clerk |
  Hilton, John (d. 1608 a. 1593-1594) |   church musician, composer |
  Hingeston, John (b. CAD2> d. 1688) |   composer, organ |
  Hoeberechts, John Lewis (b. 1760 d. 1820) |   piano, composer |
  Holcombe, Henry (b. 1693 d. 1750) |   singer, composer |
  Holder, William (b. 1616 d. 1696) |   divine, mathematician |
  Hook, James (b. 1746 d. 1827) |   organ, composer |
  Hooper, Edmund (b. 1553 d. 1621) |   organ, composer |
  Howard, Samuel (b. 1710 d. 1782) |   composer, organ |
  Hume, Tobias (b. 1569 d. 1645) |   composer, viol |
  Humfrey, Pelham (b. 1647 d. 1674) |   lute, composer |
  Isham, John (b. 1680 d. 1726) |   organ, composer |
  Ives, Simon (b. 1600 d. 1662) |   composer, instrumentalist |
  Jackson, William (b. 1730 d. 1803) |   composer, essayist |
  Jacquet de la Guerre, Elizabeth-Claude (b. 1666 d. 1729) |   composer, harpsichord |
  James, John (d. 1745) |   organ, voice |
  Jenkins, John (b. 1592 d. 1678) |   alto saxophone, cast |
  Johnson, Robert (b. 1500 d. 1560) |   composer |
  Jommelli, Nicolo (b. 1714 d. 1774) |   composer |
  Jones, Robert (a. 1597-1615) |   composer |
  Josquin Desprez (b. 1440) |   composer, compositore |
  Kapsberger, Johan Hieronymus (b. 1580 d. 1651) |   composer, instrumentalist |
  Keiser, Reinhard (b. 1674 d. 1739) |   composer, Komponist |
  Keller, Gottfried (d. 1704) |   composer, teacher |
  Kelly, Michael (b. 1762 d. 1826) |   cantante, tenor |
  Kent, James (b. 1700 d. 1776) |   cathedral musician, composer |
  Kepler, Johannes (b. 1571 d. 1630) |   astronomer, mathematician |
  Kerle, Jacobus (b. 1531 d. 1591) |   composer, organ |
  Kerll, Johann Kaspar (b. 1627 d. 1693) |   composer, organ |
  King, Charles (b. 1687 d. 1748) |   cast, cathedral musician |
  Kircher, Athanasius (b. 1601 d. 1680) |   Noyize, polyhistorian |
  Kirnberger, Johann Philipp (b. 1721 d. 1783) |   theorist, composer |
  Klemm, Johann (b. 1595 d. 1657) |   composer, organ |
  Kozeluch, Leopold (b. 1747) |   composer, Komponist |
  Krieger, Johann Philipp (b. 1649 d. 1725) |   composer, organ |
  Krumbhorn, Kaspar (b. 1542 d. 1621) |   organ |
  Kuhnau, Johann (b. 1660 d. 1722) |   composer, compositore |
  Kusser, Johann Sigismund (b. 1657 d. 1727) |   composer, Komponist |
  La Rue, Pierre (b. 1460 d. 1518) |   composer |
  Lalande, Michel-Richard (b. 1657 d. 1726) |   composer, organ |
  Lallouette, Jean Francois (b. 1651 d. 1728 a. 1675) |   composer |
  Lambert, Michel (b. 1610 d. 1696) |   Buchverleger, composer |
  Lampe, John Frederick (b. 1703 d. 1751) |   composer, bassoon |
  Lanier, Nicholas (d. 1612 a. 1566) |   flute |
  Lassus, Ferdinand (b. 1560 d. 1609) |   singer, composer |
  Lassus, Orlande (b. 1532 d. ?) |   composer, compositore |
  Lassus, Rudolph (b. 1563 d. 1625) |   organ, composer |
  Latilla, Gaetano (b. 1711 d. 1788) |   composer, maestro di cappella |
  Lawes, Henry (b. 1596 d. 1662) |   composer, gentleman of the Chapel |
  Lawes, William (b. 1582 d. 1645) |   composer, musician |
  Le Jeune, Claude (b. -1530 d. 1600) |   composer |
  Legrenzi, Giovanni (b. 1625 d. 1690) |   composer, musicisti |
  Leighton, William (b. 1565 d. 1622 a. 1614) |   amateur poet, editor |
  Leo, Leonardo (Ortensio Salvatore de) (b. 1694) |   composer, compositore |
  Leveridge, Richard (b. -1671 d. 1758) |   bass, vocals |
  Liberati, Antonio (b. 1617 d. 1692) |   theorist, composer |
  Linley, Francis (b. 1770 d. 1800 a. 1796-1799) |   composer, music seller |
  Linley, Thomas (b. 1733 d. 1795) |   composer, harpsichord |
  Locke, Matthew (b. -1622 d. 1677) |   composer |
  Loeillet, Jean Baptiste [John of London] (b. 1680 d. 1730) |   composer, musicisti |
  Lorente, Andres (d. 1703) |   theorist, musico |
  Lorenzani, Paolo (b. 1640 d. 1713) |   composer |
  Lotti, Antonio (b. 1667 d. 1740) |   composer, compositore |
  Loulie, Etienne (b. 1655 d. 1707) |   theorist, musicien |
  Lowe, Edward (b. 1610 d. 1682) |   composer, music copyist |
  Lully, Jean-Baptiste (b. 1632) |   composer, compositore |
  Mace, Thomas (b. -1613 d. 1706) |   lute, singer |
  Malcolm, Alexander (b. 1685 d. 1763) |   theorist, teacher |
  Manchicourt, Pierre (b. 1510 d. 1564) |   composer |
  Marais, Marin (b. 1656 d. 1728) |   composer, compositeur |
  Marcello, Benedetto (b. 1686) |   composer, compositore |
  Marchand, Louis (b. 1669 d. 1732) |   harpsichord, organ |
  Marenzio, Luca (b. 1553 d. 1599) |   composer, musicisti |
  Martini, Johann Paul Aegidius (b. 1741 d. 1816) |   composer, teacher |
  Mattheson, Johann (b. 1681) |   composer, compositore |
  Maynard, John (b. 1577 d. 1614 a. 1611) |   lute, composer |
  Mazzinghi, Joseph (b. 1765 d. 1844) |   composer |
  Meibom, Marcus (b. -1621 d. 1711) |   polyhistor |
  Menestrier, Claude-Francois (b. 1631 d. 1705) |   Jesuit, savant |
  Mengoli, Pietro (b. 1625 d. 1686) |   scholar |
  Merbecke, John (b. >1510 d. 1585) |   composer, writer |
  Mercy, Louis (a. 1708) |   flute, inventor |
  Mersenne, Marin (b. 1588 d. 1648) |   mathematician, philosopher |
  Merula, Tarquinio (b. 1594 d. 1665) |   composer, musicisti |
  Meyer, Joachim (b. 1661 d. 1732) |   writer |
  Miller, Edward (b. 1735 d. 1807) |   organ, composer |
  Milton, John (b. 1563 d. 1646) |   amateur composer, father of the poet |
  Minoret, Guillaume (b. 1650 d. 1717) |   composer, ecclesiastic |
  Monro, George (d. 1731 a. 1724-1731) |   composer, organ |
  Monte, Philippe (b. 1521 d. 1603) |   composer, Domherr |
  Monteclair, Michel Pignolet (b. 1666 d. 1737) |   composer, theorist |
  Monteverdi, Claudio (Giovanni Antonio) (b. 1567 d. 1643) |   composer, compositore |
  Moorehead, John (b. 1760 d. 1804) |   violin, composer |
  Morales, Cristobal (b. 1500 d. 1553) |   compositor, maestro |
  Moreau, Jean-Baptiste (b. 1656 d. 1733) |   composer, teacher |
  Moritz, Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel (b. 1572) |   Komponist, music patron |
  Morley, Thomas (b. 1557) |   composer, editor |
  Mouret, Jean-Joseph (b. 1682 d. 1738) |   composer, Musikalienhandler |
  Mouton, Jean (b. 1459 d. 1522) |   composer |
  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (b. 1756 d. 1791) |   composer |
  Muffat, Georg (d. 1704) |   composer, compositore |
  Mundy, John (b. 1555 d. 1630) |   composer, organ |
  Mundy, William (b. 1529 d. 1591) |   composer |
  Nanino, Giovanni Bernardino (b. 1560 d. 1623) |   maestro di cappella, teacher |
  Nanino, Giovanni Maria (b. 1543 d. 1607) |   compositore, teacher |
  Nares, James (b. 1715 d. 1783) |   composer |
  Naumann, Johan Gottlieb (b. 1741) |   composer, Komponist |
  Nicholson, Richard (d. 1639 a. 1585-1596) |   organ, composer |
  Nicolai, Valentino (a. 1775-?1798) |
  composer of unknown origin, active in London and P |
  Nivers, Guillaume Gabriel (b. 1632 d. 1714) |   organ, composer |
  Norris, Thomas (b. 1740 d. 1790) |   organ, composer |
  Obrecht, Jacob (b. >1450 d. 1505) |   composer |
  Ockeghem, Johannes (b. 1410 d. 1497) |   composer, Komposition |
  Orlandini, Giuseppe Maria (b. 1675) |   composer, compositore |
  Pachelbel, Johann (b. 1653 d. 1706) |   composer, organ |
  Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi (a. 19th century |
  composer, compositore |
  Pallavicino, Benedetto (b. 1551 d. 1601) |   composer |
  Parsons, Robert (b. 1530 d. 1569) |   composer |
  Peerson, Martin (b. -1573 d. 1651) |   composer, virginal |
  Penna, Lorenzo (b. 1613) |   composer, compositore |
  Pepusch, Johann Christoph (b. 1667 d. 1752) |   composer, theorist |
  Perez, David (b. 1711 d. 1778) |   composer, compositore |
  Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (b. 1710) |   composer, compositor |
  Peri, Jacopo (b. 1561 d. 1633) |   composer, singer |
  Pescetti, Giovanni Battista (b. 1704 d. 1766) |   composer, compositore |
  Philips, Peter (b. -1561 d. 1628) |   composer, organ |
  Piccinni, Niccolo [Vito Niccolo Marcello Antonio Giacomo] (b. 1728 d. 1800) |   composer, compositore |
  Playford, Henry (b. 1657 d. 1709) |   music publisher |
  Playford, John (b. 1623 d. 1687) |   music publisher, book seller |
  Porpora, Nicola (Antonio) (b. 1686) |   compositore, musician |
  Porsile, Giuseppe (b. 1680 d. 1750) |   composer, compositore |
  Porta, Costanzo (b. -1529 d. 1601) |   composer, compositore |
  Porter, Walter (b. 1587 d. 1659) |   composer, Quirister of Westminster |
  Praetorius, Michael (b. 1571 d. 1621) |   composer, compositore |
  Prelleur, Peter (b. 1685 d. 1755 a. 1728-circa175) |
  organ, harpsichord |
  Purcell, Daniel (b. 1660 d. 1717) |   composer, organ |
  Purcell, Henry (b. 1659 d. 1695) |   composer, organ |
  Quantz, Johann Joachim (b. 1697) |   flute, composer |
  Rameau, Jean-Philippe (b. 1683 d. 1764) |   bagpipes, composer |
  Ramondon, Lewis (d. 1720 a. 1705-1710) |   singer, composer |
  Rauzzini, Venanzio (b. 1746 d. 1810) |   male soprano, composer |
  Ravenscroft, Thomas (b. 1582 d. 1635) |   editor, vocals |
  Reading, John (b. 1645 d. 1692) |   composer, organ |
  Reeve, William (b. 1757 d. 1815) |   theater composer, actor |
  Reincke (a. 1550) |   musician |
  Rinaldo di Capua (b. 1705 d. 1780) |   composer |
  Rogers, Benjamin (b. 1614 d. 1698) |   organ, composer |
  Rolle, Johann Heinrich (b. 1716 d. 1785) |   composer |
  Romano, Michieli (a. 1610) |   musician |
  Rosa, Salvatore (b. 1615 d. 1673) |   painter, poet |
  Roseingrave, Thomas (b. 1688 d. 1766) |   organ, composer |
  Rosenmuller, Johann (b. 1619 d. 1684) |   composer, organ |
  Royer, Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace (b. 1705 d. 1755) |   composer, concert organizer |
  Russell, William (b. 1777 d. 1813) |   organ, composer |
  Sacchini, Antonio (Maria Gasparo Gioacchino) (b. 1730 d. ? a. 19th century |
  compositore, Komponist |
  Salieri, Antonio (b. 1750 d. ?) |   composer, compositore |
  Salinas, Francisco (b. 1513 d. 1590) |   theorist, organ |
  Salomon, Joseph-Francois (b. 1649 d. 1732) |   composer, organ |
  Sammartini, Giuseppe (Francesco Gaspare Melchiorre Baldassare) (b. 1695 d. 1770) |   oboe, composer |
  Sarro, Domenico Natale (b. 1679 d. 1744) |   composer, compositore |
  Sarti, Giuseppe (b. 1729 d. 1802) |   compositeur, compositore |
  Scacchi, Marco (b. 1600 d. -1687) |   composer, writer on music |
  Scarlatti, Alessandro [Pietro Alessandro Gaspari] (b. 1660) |   composer, compositore |
  Scarlatti, Domenico [Giuseppe Domenico] (b. 1685) |   composer, keyboard teacher |
  Schroeter, Johann Samuel (b. 1752 d. 1788) |   piano, composer |
  Schulz, Johann Abraham Peter (b. 1747) |   composer, Komponist |
  Schutz, Heinrich (b. 1585 d. 1672) |   composer, Komponist |
  Schwindl, Friedrich (b. 1737 d. 1786) |   composer, violin |
  Sheeles, John (b. 1688 d. 1761 a. 1731) |   composer, Harpsichord master |
  Shield, William (b. 1748 d. 1829) |   theater composer |
  Shuttleworth, Obadiah (b. 1675 d. 1734) |   violin, organ |
  Simonelli, Matteo (b. 1618 d. 1696) |   composer, singer |
  Simpson, Christopher (b. 1605 d. 1669) |   guitar, theorist |
  Somis, Lorenzo (b. 1688 d. 1775) |   violin, composer |
  Soriano, Francesco (b. 1548) |   religioso, compositore |
  Staggins, Nicholas (d. 1705 died: 1700 a. 1695) |   musician |
  Stamitz, Anton Thadeus Johann Nepomuk (b. 1750 d. -1809) |   composer, violin |
  Stamitz, Carl (Philipp) (b. 1745 d. 1801 a. 1785) |   composer, violin |
  Stanley, John (b. 1712 d. 1786) |   composer, organ |
  Steffani, Agostino (b. 1654 d. 1728) |   composer, musicisti |
  Sterkel, Johann Franz Xavier (b. 1750 d. 1817) |   composer, piano |
  Stevenson, John (Andrew) (b. 1761 d. 1833) |   composer |
  Stonard, William (b. -1575 d. 1630) |   organ, composer |
  Storace, Stephen (John Seymour) (b. 1762 d. 1796) |   Sanger, Komponist |
  Stradella, Alessandro (b. 1644 d. 1682) |   composer, compositore |
  Striggio, Alessandro (b. 1540 d. 1592) |   composer, compositore |
  Strozzi, Barbara (b. 1619 d. 1664) |   composer, musicisti |
  Symonds, Henry (d. 1740 died: 1740) |   composer, organ |
  Tallis, Thomas (b. 1505 d. 1585) |   composer, gentleman of the Chapel |
  Tartini, Giuseppe (b. 1692) |   composer, compositore |
  Taverner, John (b. 1490 d. 1545) |   composer |
  Telemann, Georg Philipp (b. 1681) |   composer, compositore |
  Terradellas, Domingo Miguel Barnabas (b. 1701 d. 1751) |   compositore, maestro di cappella |
  Tessarini, Carlo (b. 1690 d. 1766) |   violin, composer |
  Tevo, Zaccaria (b. 1651 d. 1712) |   theorist, composer |
  Thiel, Andrew (a. 1700) |   musician |
  Thiel, John (b. 1646 d. 1724) |   musician |
  Tigrini, Orazio (b. 1535 d. 1591) |   theorist, composer |
  Tomkins, John (b. 1586 d. 1638 a. 1622-1638) |   organ, composer |
  Torelli, Giuseppe (b. 1658) |   composer, musicisti |
  Torri, Pietro (b. 1650 d. 1737) |   composer |
  Tosi, Pier Francesco (b. 1653) |   bozzettista, cantante |
  Travers, John (b. 1703 d. 1758) |   organ, composer |
  Tucker, William (d. 1679 died: 1679) |   composer, clergyman |
  Tudway, Thomas (b. 1650 d. 1726) |   composer, page of the Chapel |
  Turner, William (b. 1651 d. 1740) |   child and page of the Chapel Royal, composer |
  Tye, Christopher (b. 1505 d. 1580) |   composer, musician |
  Valentini, Pier Francesco (b. 1570 d. 1654) |   nobile, compositore |
  Vanhal, Johann Baptist (b. 1739 d. 1813) |   composer, teacher |
  Vecchi, Orazio (Tiberio) (b. 1550 d. 1604) |   compositore, musicisti |
  Vento, Mattia (b. 1735 d. 1776) |   composer |
  Veracini, Francesco Maria (b. 1690 d. 1768) |   composer, compositore |
  Verdelot, Philippe (b. -1480 d. 1552) |   composer |
  Viadana, Lodovici (b. 1560 d. 1627) |   composer, friar |
  Vicentino, Nicola (b. 1511 d. 1576) |   composer, theorist |
  Victoria, Tomas Luis (b. 1548 d. 1611) |   composer, compositore |
  Vinci, Leonardo (b. 1690 d. 1736) |   composer, compositore |
  Vivaldi, Antonio (Lucio) (b. 1678 d. 1741) |   Komponist, abate |
  Vossius, Gerhard Johann (b. 1577 d. 1649) |   polymath |
  Vossius, Isaac (b. 1618 d. 1689) |   polymath |
  Wagenseil, Georg Christoph (b. 1715 d. 1777) |   composer, keyboard |
  Wallis, John (b. 1616 d. 1703) |   mathematician, writer on music |
  Walther, Johann Gottfried (b. 1684 d. 1748) |   organ, composer |
  Warwick, Thomas |   organ, composer |
  Weelkes, Thomas (b. 1578 d. 1640) |   composer, musician |
  Weldon, John (b. 1676 d. 1736) |   composer, organ |
  Werckmeister, Andreas (b. 1645 d. 1706) |   theorist, organ |
  Wesley, Charles (b. 1707 d. 1788) |   divine, hymn writer |
  Wesley, Samuel (b. 1766 d. 1837) |   composer, organ |
  Whichello, Abiell (b. 1683 d. 1745) |   composer, organ |
  White, Robert (b. 1538 d. 1581) |   composer |
  Wiedemann (a. 1726) |   flute, composer |
  Wilson, John (b. 1595 d. 1674) |   composer, lute |
  Wise, Michael (b. 1647 d. 1687) |   composer, musician |
  Wolf, Ernst Wilhelm (b. 1732 d. 1792) |   composer |
  Worgan, John (b. 1724 d. 1790) |   organ, composer |
  Zacconi, Lodovico Giulio Cesare (b. 1555 d. 1627 a. 1596) |   theorist, agostiniano |
  Zachow, Friedrich Wilhelm (b. 1663 d. 1712) |   composer, organ |
  Zarlino, Gioseffo (b. 1517 d. 1590) |   musicisti, teorico musicale |
  Ziani, Marc'Antonio (b. 1653 d. 1715) |   compositore, Komponist |