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Henry Purcell

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Baroque Opera English Sacred

8.8 Great

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Anton Bruckner

Austrian composer of the late Romantic era, highly regarded for his massive, structurally complex symphonies and sacred...

Symphony Romantic Austrian Sacred

8.7 Great

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Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten was a leading English composer of the 20th century, celebrated for revitalizing British opera with mast...

Opera Modern Chamber English

8.7 Great

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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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Antonio Vivaldi

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Baroque Italian Violin Concerto

8.7 Great

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Arvo Pärt

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Contemporary Minimalist Sacred Estonian

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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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Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Symphony Modern Folk English

8.4 Great

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Edward Elgar

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Romantic Orchestral English Oratorio

8.4 Great

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Guillaume de Machaut

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French Medieval Polyphony Secular

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Guillaume Dufay

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Renaissance Sacred Polyphony Mass

8.3 Great

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Tomás Luis de Victoria

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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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Gustav Holst

Gustav Holst was an English composer best known for his seven-movement orchestral suite "The Planets," which profoundly...

Modern Suite Orchestral English

8.2 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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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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Thomas Morley

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Renaissance Song English Theorist

7.3 Good