Best Madrigal
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Italian composer who bridged the Renaissance and Baroque eras, composing L'Orfeo (1607), among the earliest surviving operas.
English Renaissance composer who produced important keyboard, vocal, and sacred works despite practicing Catholicism under Protestant rule.
German Baroque composer who introduced Italian polychoral style to Germany and composed the first German-language opera, Dafne (1627).
Italian Renaissance composer whose intensely chromatic madrigals were far ahead of their time; also notorious for murdering his wife in 1590.
Flemish Renaissance composer who founded the Venetian School and served as maestro di cappella at St. Mark's Basilica from 1527.
English Renaissance composer who popularized the Italian madrigal in England and edited the anthology The Triumphs of Oriana (1601).
