Renaissance Timeline - Alex Suarez

John Dunstable

1390

Leading English Composer for what became the Renaissance style

Guillaume Dufay

1397

Franco-Flemish; the first important Renaissance composer; used older medieval cadences

Gillies Binchois

1400

Early Renaissance composer, often paired with Dufay in importance; Court of the Duke of Burgundy(Philip the Good); Franco- Flemish

Johannes Ockeghem

1410

Bass singer; served 3 Kings; well respected

Antonie Busnoys

1430

His chansons represent a transition to a new Renaissance secular polyphony; known along with Ockeghem

Polyphony

1430

Renaissance

Period: 1430 to 1600

Johannes Tinctoris

1435

Franco-Flemish theorist, singer, composer, instrumentalist

Loyset Comere

1445

Franco-Flemish composer, singer; worked in France and Italy; one of the earliest composers to use imitation prominently

Alexander Agricola

1446

Franco-Flemish; worked in France and Italy; his music was widely distributed

Heinrich Isaac

1450

Franco-Flemish composer who influenced German music court composer to Holy Roman Emperor Maximillian I in Vienna; served in Florence as well

Josquin des Prez

1450

Considered by Martin Lusher to be the best of the composers of their time; French

Pierre de la Rue

1452

Leading composer at the Burgundian court; never worked in Italy; very famous during his time; frequent use of canon and ostinato

Jacob Obrecht

1457

Made important contributions to large-scale forms and their unity; important composer of masses in Europe; Dutch

Antonie Brumel

1460

Franco-Flemish; worked in France and Italy; prominently published in his day and praised by numerous contemporaries

Marco Cara

1465

Italian composer and singer in Mantua; raised the frottla to a level of sophistication

Ottaviano Petrucci

1466

First music printer and publisher; preserved Renaissance music for us today

Bartolomeo Tromboncino

1470

Italian composer at Mantua, Vicenza (where he murdered his wife and her lover), Ferrara, and Florence; important frottola composer

Philippe Verdelot

1480

French; worked in Italian cities, important pioneer for madrigals; early madrigals were often homorhythmic in style

Martin Luther

1483

German theologian and composer; he was the founder of the Lutheran Church

Constanzo Festa

1485

Italian composer; studied with mouton in Paris; worked in Rome; wrote litanies for double chorus

Clement Janequin

1485

French; served the King of France; master of the French chanson; wrote famous programmatic chansons (battles, birds, and chases)

Ludwig Senfl

1486

Swiss German composer and singer Catholic, but admired Luther; master of quodlibets

John Taverner

1490

English; organist and choirmaster; influenced by the Lutheran faith wrote for the Catholic liturgy; and important English composer in the first half of the 16th century

Claudin de Sermisy

1490

French composer and singer; widely published in his day; many composers transcribed his music in his day

Adrian Willaert

1490

Complex, continuous polyphony; strong advocate of textual expression; studied with Jean Mouton; served in Italian courts; extraordinary teacher; worked in Venice at St. Marks Cathedral

Hans Sachs

1494

German Meistersinger; wrote thousands of songs

Pierre Attaingnant

1494

French music printer and publisher; used movable type and a single impression

Nicolas Gombert

1495

From Flanders; worked in the Spanish court; master of counterpoint; leading figure between Joaquin and Palestrina

Johann Walter

1496

Protestant; German cantor, poet and composer; collaborated with Luther to create music for the German reformed services

Cristobal de Morales

1500

Spanish composer and singer; especially popular after his death

Thomas Tallis

1505

English organist; taught Byrd; he was Catholic during Henry VIII's troubled years; wrote both for the Latin and the reformed English liturgies

Jacques Arcadelt

1507

Dutch; worked in Rome and Paris; famous for his early madrigals and his 3 to 7 voice masses (often homorhythmic style); well published in the 16th century

Jacobus Clemens

1510

Dutch; also known as Clemens non Papa (indicating, "not the Pope"); worked in Spain for Charles V; prolific composer

Nicola Vicentino

1511

Italian composer and theorist; advocated half steps (chromatic) and quarter-tones (microtonal); theorist and composer; built a harpsichord with 36 keys per octave; innovator in tuning systems

Cipriano de Rora

1515

Flemish; worked in Ferrara and Parma; associated with Willaert

Gioseffo Zarlino

1517

Important Italian theorist of counterpoint; composer; wrote Le istitutioni harmoniche in 1558 which helped establish the field of counterpoint

Giovanni Animuccia

1520

Italian composer, Palestrina's predecessor in Rome, helped to establish the Roman style

Adrien Le Roy

1520

French publisher, printer, composer, lutenist, author; ran the firm LeRoy and Ballard; author of pedagogical books for plucked strings

Philippe de Monte

1521

At the Vienese and Prague courts; religious; Franco-Flemish; mixed polyphony and homophony; one of the most prolific composers of the Renaissance

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

1525

Became an icon of the Renaissance music for future generations; Roman style; responded to the requests of the Council of Trent to reform Catholic Church music; mostly contrapuntal liturgical music

Vincenzo Galilei

1527

late 1520's;Italian composer, theorist, lutenist; father of Galileo Galilei, the astronomer; studied with Zarlino; champion of Greek music and member of the Florentine Camerata

Francisco Guerrero

1528

Spanish composer; student of Morales; second only to Victoria in Spain

Costanzo Porta

1528

Pupil of Willaert; teacher of Viadana; tried to please the Council of Trent

Claude Le Jeune

1528

Parisian intellectual; respected by Kings; dedicated to the reform of music and poetry mystique measuree a l'antique; wrote 43 Huguenot psalms; one of the most significant composers of the second half of the 16th century

Anthoine [Antoine] de Bertrand

1530

French composer; used much chromaticism and some microtones; published 3 books of secular polyphony

Andrea Gabrieli

1532

Italian organist, composer, teacher; uncle of Giovanni; worked in Venice; pupil of Willaert; versatile and innovative

Orlando di Lasso

1532

Also Roland de Lassus; widely traveled; employed G. Gabrieli in 1575; over 2000 compositions in all languages; one of the most versatile and prolic composers in the 16th century

Count Giovanni Bardi

1534

Leader of the Florentine Camerata in the late 1570s-90s; Italian critic, poet, composer, and playwright

Marc Antonio Ingegneri

1535

Italian composer who helped establish the Roman style; important madrigalist and composer of sacred music in North Italy; teacher of Monteverdi

Giaches de Wert

1535

Pupil of de Rore; served the Dukes of Mantua and Parma; stormy personal life; text declamation was important to him; he influenced Monteverdi; friend of the poet, Tasso; wrote madrigals for the Concerto della donne

Alessandro Striggio

1536

Italian lutenist and composer at Florentine Court; wrote one motet for 40 instrumental voices; a leading composer of madrigals and stage music

Battista Giovanni Guarini

1538

Italian poet and dramatist; his poetry was set by many Baroque composers; he created the pastoral vogue that lasted into the 18th century

William Byrd

1540

English; Catholic composer writing both Protestant and Catholic music in England; greatest English composer of his time

Giovanni Maria Nanino

1543

Italian composer who helped carry on the tradition of Palestrina's Roman style; pupil of Palestrina; in 1580 started a music school with his brother

Torquato Tasso

1544

Italian poet and playwright; his works have been flavored by composers for centuries

Luzzasco Luzzaschi

1545

Italian composer; pupil of de Rore; Frescohaldi's teacher; wrote 8 books of madrigals one with written-out keyboard accompaniment; wrote madrigals for the Concerto delle donne

Tomas Luis de Victoria

1548

Spanish; continued Palestrina's Roman style in Spain; studied in Rome sacred-music composer; the greatest Spanish composer in the Renaissance

Orazio Vecchi

1550

Italian composer; he is remembered as a pioneer of dramatic music in the 16th century; important pioneer in the genre of madrigal comedy

Luca Marenzio

1553

The leading madrigal composer of the late 16th century ; worked in Rome, Ferrara, Florence, and Warsaw (serving the King of Poland); influenced the English madrigal

Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi

1554

Famous for his 2 sets of ballet (strophic vocal dance-songs with passages of nonsense syllables); influenced the English

Sethus Calvisius

1556

German music theorist, composer, teacher, and astronomer

Thomas Morley

1557

English; contributed to the development of the English madrigal; important for music publication and printing; probably a pupil off Byrd; wrote in 1597, A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke

Lambert de Beaulieu

1559

French composer and singer; one of the composers credited with writing the first ballet, Ballet comique de la Reine in 1581 with Salmon

Giovanni Bernardino Nanino

1560

Italian composer and teacher who helped carry on the Roman style of Palestrina; one of the first Roman composers to use basso continuo; brother of Giovanni Maria

Carlo Gesualdo

1561

Known for his chromaticism; Neapolitan Prince of Venosa; murdered his wife and lover in 1590; leading composer of madrigals; extreme expressive intensity; Stravinisky was fascinated with his music; friends with the poet Tasso

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

1562

Organist in Amsterdam; teacher; helped to lay the foundations of German organ music

Thomas Campion

1567

English composer, poet, and doctor

Claudio Monteverdi

1567

Ahead of his time; took music into a new style (seconda practica vs. the older, prima practice)

Lodovico Agostini

1569

Italian composer; worked at the Vatican and Ferrara; from a musical family, perhaps nephew of Agostino Agostini

John Cooper

1570

English composer, lutenist, and viol player; served the Prince of Wales

Jacques Salmon

1571

French composer and singer; one of the people credited with writing the first ballet, Ballet comique de la Reine in 1581 with composer , Beaulieu