Conrad Paumann was a German organist, lutenist and composer of the early Renaissance. Paumann was born in Nuremberg to a family of craftsmen on…

Jehan de Lescurel (also Jehannot de l'Escurel) (died May 23, 1304?) was a medieval poet and composer.
Nothing is known of his life other than that…

Pedro de Soto (1493-1563) was a Spanish Dominican theologian.

De Soto (in Latin Petrus a Soto) was confessor to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.…

Marcantonio Romano (c.1552-1636) was a 17th Century Dalmatian composer.

In the late 16th and the early 17th centuries the cathedral churches of…

Johannes Honter (also known as Johann Hynter; Latinized as Johann Honterus or Ioannes Honterus; Romanian sources may credit him as Ioan,…

Vincenzo da Rimini, also Magister Dominus Abbas de Arimino, L’abate Vincençio da Imola, Frate Vincenço, was an Italian composer of the medieval era,…

Andrea Antico (also Andrea Antico da Montona, Anticho, Antiquo) (c. 1480 – after 1538) was an Italian music printer, editor, publisher and composer…

Franciscus Bossinensis (fl. 1509 – 1511) (Francis the Bosnian) was a lutenist-composer active in Italy in the 15th century. Although his name…

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Guiraut d'Espanha or de Tholoza (fl. 1245–1265) was of the last generation of troubadours, working in Provence at the court of Charles of Anjou…

Emmanuel Adriaenssen (born c. 1554, Antwerp, buried 27 February 1604, Antwerp) was a Flemish lutenist and influential author of Pratum Musicum…

Thibaut de Blaison, Blason, or Blazon (died after March 1229) was a Poitevin nobleman, Crusader, and trouvère from a noble family with lands in…

Girolamo Diruta (c. 1554 – after 1610) was an Italian organist, music theorist, and composer. He was famous as a teacher, for his treatise on…

Santino Garsi da Parma (February 22, 1542 – January 17, 1604) was an Italian lutenist and composer of the late Renaissance.

His music was used as…

February 25, 1555 – April 5, 1617) was a Spanish composer of the late Renaissance. Although not as famous as Victoria, he was highly regarded at…

Sebestyén "Lantos" Tinódi (c. 1510 – 30 January 1556) was a 16th century Hungarian lyricist, epic poet, political historian, and minstrel.

Little is…

Cristóbal de Morales (c.1500 – between September 4 and October 7, 1553) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance.

Cristóbal de Morales was born…

(b Modena, 1498; d Rome, 23 July 1561). Italian keyboard player and composer. A singer at Modena Cathedral (1513) he sang in Rome and by 1530 was…

Luis de Milán (also known as Lluís del Milà) (c. 1500 – 1561 or possibly later) was a Spanish Renaissance composer, vihuelist (instrument similar to…

Bernardino Mosto (fl. 1575-1594) was a 16th Century organist and composer.

Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta (1526/1535 - 1605/1620) was an Italian Renaissance dancing master.
His dance manual Il Ballarino was published in 1581,…