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Frederic Chopin

Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great Romantic compo...

Pianist Romantic Virtuoso Prelude

10.0 Brilliant

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is considered one of the greatest composers in mu...

German Pianist Symphony Piano Sonata

9.7 Brilliant

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Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms was a German composer of the Romantic era who upheld the rigorous structural traditions of Beethoven and...

Symphony String Quartet Classical Intellectual

9.6 Brilliant

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Franz Schubert

Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras, famous for his lieder and the symphonic "Unfinished Sym...

Symphony Romantic Austrian Chamber

9.3 Excellent

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Claudio Monteverdi

Italian composer who bridged the Renaissance and Baroque eras, composing L'Orfeo (1607), among the earliest surviving op...

Baroque Opera Italian Pioneer

9.0 Excellent

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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Italian Renaissance composer whose smooth polyphonic sacred style became the Catholic Church's musical ideal after the C...

Italian Renaissance Sacred Polyphony

8.7 Great

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William Byrd

English Renaissance composer who produced important keyboard, vocal, and sacred works despite practicing Catholicism und...

Renaissance Keyboard English Sacred

8.5 Great

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Thomas Tallis

English Renaissance composer who served four Tudor monarchs and is celebrated for the 40-voice motet Spem in alium (c. 1...

Renaissance English Sacred Polyphony

8.4 Great

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Guillaume Dufay

Franco-Flemish composer and a leading figure of the Burgundian School whose sacred and secular works defined early 15th-...

Renaissance Sacred Polyphony Mass

8.3 Great

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Tomás Luis de Victoria

Spanish Renaissance composer of sacred polyphony, considered one of the greatest masters of the genre in 16th-century Ca...

Spanish Renaissance Sacred Polyphony

8.3 Great

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Heinrich Schütz

German Baroque composer who introduced Italian polychoral style to Germany and composed the first German-language opera,...

German Baroque Pioneer Sacred

8.3 Great

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John Dowland

English Renaissance composer and lutenist whose melancholic ayres, including Flow My Tears (1600), were popular througho...

Renaissance Song English Melancholic

8.1 Great

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Johannes Ockeghem

Flemish 15th-century composer renowned for his intricate counterpoint and as a foundational teacher of the Franco-Flemis...

Renaissance Sacred Polyphony Mass

7.9 Good

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Carlo Gesualdo

Italian Renaissance composer whose intensely chromatic madrigals were far ahead of their time; also notorious for murder...

Italian Renaissance Chromatic Eccentric

7.9 Good

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Heinrich Isaac

Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer Heinrich Isaac (c. 1450–1517) was a highly influential polyphonist who served Empero...

Renaissance Polyphony Secular Mass

7.7 Good

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Jacob Obrecht

Flemish composer of the late 15th century, notable for his mass settings and prominent in the Franco-Flemish polyphonic...

Renaissance Polyphony Mass Motet

7.6 Good

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Orlando Gibbons

English late-Renaissance composer known for his refined keyboard fantasias and Anglican anthems, active in the early 17t...

Renaissance Keyboard English Sacred

7.5 Good

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Clement Janequin

French Renaissance composer Clément Janequin (c. 1485–1558) pioneered programmatic chansons, especially the famous 1528...

French Renaissance Programmatic Secular

7.4 Good

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Thomas Morley

English Renaissance composer who popularized the Italian madrigal in England and edited the anthology The Triumphs of Or...

Renaissance Song English Theorist

7.3 Good

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Claude Le Jeune

French composer Claude Le Jeune (c. 1530–1600) was a principal figure in the Académie de Poésie et de Musique, famous fo...

French Renaissance Secular Chanson

6.9 Fair