Composers From The Renaissance Period

Bacheler, Daniel

( 1572 - 1619 )

Daniel Bacheler was an English lutenist and composer. Read More

Da Milano, Francesco

( 1497 - 1543 )

Francesco Canova da Milano was a virtuoso Italian lutenist and composer of the Renaissance, he was heralded throughout Italy and Europe and was the foremost lute composer of his time. Read More

Dowland, John

( 1562 - 1626 )

John Dowland December 1562 - 20 Feb 1626 Nothing is known of his early training. Read More

Ferrabosco, Alfonso

( 1543 - 1588 )

Alfonso Ferrabosco was an Italian composer. Read More

Frescobaldi, Girolamo Italian composer and organist. In 1608 he became organist at St. Peter's, where, except for a six-year sojourn at the Florentine court, he would remain the rest of his life. Read More

Holborne, Anthony

( 1584 - 1602 )

We know almost nothing of the life of Anthony Holborne: the first documented date is June 14, 1584, when he married Elisabeth Marten in St Margaret's Church Westminster (today the parish church of Read More

Kapsberger, Johann Hieronymus

( 1580 - 1651 )

Kapsberger was a German-Italian virtuoso performer and composer of the early Baroque period. Read More

Le Roy, Adrien

( 1520 - 1598 )

Guitarist, lutenist, singer, composer, editor and French.Historically speaking Le Roy was one of the most influential people in the development and propagation of the French musical style in the si Read More

Milan, LuIs

( 1500 - 1561 )

Luis de Milán was a Spanish Renaissance composer, vihuelist (instrument similar to the guitar), and writer on music. Read More

Molinaro, Simone

( 1570 - 1634 )

Simone Molinaro was one of the more important Italian composers of the post-Renaissance era. Read More

Mudarra, Alonso

( 1510 - 1580 )

Alonso Mudarra was a Spanish composer and vihuelist of the Renaissance. Read More

Narvaez, Luis de

( 1500 - 1560 )

Piccinini, Alessandro

( 1566 - 1638 )

Alessandro Piccinini was a lutenist composer and writer on music who lived and worked in Bologna. His father, his two brothers and his son were lutenists too. Read More

Praetorius, Michael

( 1571 - 1621 )

Michael Praetorius was a German composer, organist, and writer about music. Read More