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Binchois (right) with composer Guillaume Dufay, illumination from Martin le Franc's Le Champion des dames, c. 1440; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (MS Fr. 12476).
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Also Known As Gilles Binchois • Gilles de Binche • Binchoys • Gilles de Bins
Born c.1400 • Mons • Hainaut
Died September 20, 1460 • Belgium
Movement / Style Burgundian school • Franco-Netherlandish school

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Binchois (right) with composer Guillaume Dufay, illumination from Martin le Franc's Le Champion des dames, c. 1440; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (MS Fr. 12476).
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Dufay and Gilles Binchois
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Antoine Busnois
French composer
Lasso, engraving by James Caldwall
Orlando di Lasso
Flemish composer
Josquin des Prez
Josquin des Prez
French-Flemish composer
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Spanish composer
Jacques Arcadelt
French composer
Adriaan Willaert
Flemish composer
Nicolas Gombert
Flemish composer
Jacobus Clemens
Flemish composer
Alexander Agricola
Dutch composer
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Telemann, Georg Philipp
Georg Philipp Telemann
German composer
Guillaume de Machaut, detail of a miniature from Oeuvres de Guillaume de Machaut, c. 1370–80; in the Bibliothèque Nationale (Ms. Fr. 1584).
Guillaume de Machaut
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Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz
German composer
Alessandro Scarlatti, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 1692; in the Palacio del Duque de Hijar, Epila, Spain
Alessandro Scarlatti
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Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Penderecki
Polish composer
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
French composer
Stainer, Sir John
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British composer
Pérotin
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