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Born c.1520 • Italy
Buried July 2, 1591 • Florence • Italy
Movement / Style Camerata
Subjects Of Study music • Greece
Giulio Caccini
Italian composer
Pelham Humfrey
English composer
Robert Jones
English composer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Gesualdo, Carlo
Carlo Gesualdo, principe di Venosa, conte di Conza
Italian composer and lutenist
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Italian composer
Giovanni Gabrieli
Italian composer
Tartini, Giuseppe
Giuseppe Tartini
Italian musician
Alfonso Ferrabosco, I
Italian composer
Marco da Gagliano
Italian composer
Emilio de’ Cavalieri
Italian composer
Weber, Carl Maria von
Carl Maria von Weber
German composer and musician
Schuller, Gunther
Gunther Schuller
American composer
Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz
German composer
Paul Hindemith.
Paul Hindemith
German composer
John Dowland
English musician
Thomas Weelkes
English composer
Orlando Gibbons
English composer
Robert Johnson
English musician
Tovey
Sir Donald Francis Tovey
British pianist and composer