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1400 BCE
Seikilos Epitaph
It is the oldest musical composition with complete musical notation in the world.And nod says these wise words: As long as you live, shine, do not suffer for anything at all. -
Period: 1399 BCE to 1492
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680
Gregorian Chant
Gregorian chant is a type of plain, simple, monodic chant. Their most famous song is the song of the psalms. -
991
Guido d’Arezzo
The Benedictine monk Guido of Arezzo provided the bases for this new writing system: the tetragram, which was later called the staff, a series of five lines to locate musical notes. -
1098
Hildegard von Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen OSB, also known as the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner during the High Middle Ages. She borned at 1098 and died at 1179. -
1135
Leonin
He is credited with the creation of Magnus liber organi, the great book of organa. It is not preserved in its original form, but various copies have survived in manuscripts. -
1135
Bernart de Ventadorn
Bernart de Ventadorn, also known as Bernart de Ventadour and Bernard de Ventadorn, was a popular Provençal troubadour, composer and poet. He is probably the best-known troubadour of the style called trobar leu. Born at 1135, Moustier-Ventadour, France, at died at 1194 (age 59 years), Sainte-Trie, France. -
1160
Perotin
Perotín, called in French Pérotin le Grand or in Latin Magister Perotinus Magnus, was a medieval French composer, who was born in Paris between 1155 and 1160 and died around 1230. Considered the most important composer of the School of Notre Dame of Paris, in which the polyphonic style began to take shape. -
1221
Alfonso X the Wise
He is considered the founder of Castilian prose and it was, precisely in his time, when Castilian became the official language of the kingdom, leaving Latin in the background. -
1300
Guillaume de Machaut
Is a medieval French poet and composer, he is historically the greatest representative of the movement known as Ars nova. -
1320
Ars Nova
Music history, period of the tremendous flowering of music in the 14th century, particularly in France.Compositions in the Ars Nova style generally had more complex rhythms. -
1322
Ars Antiqua
Singing for two or three voices of a contrapuntal nature. It has the peculiarity that each independent voice has a different text and a different rhythm, making it a very lively and contrasting music. -
1335
Francesco Landini
Francesco Landini was an Italian composer, poet, organist, singer and instrument maker who was a central figure of the Trecento style in late Medieval music. One of the most revered composers of the second half of the 14th century, he was by far the most famous composer in Italy. His most famous works were: Ale' s'andra lo spirto, Ecco la primavera… -
1400
Johannes Guterberg
Inventor of the modern printing press with movable type and it is a system that would develop knowledge in Europe. -
Period: 1400 to
Renaissance
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1468
Juan del Encina
Juan del Encina was a musician, poet and playwright of the Spanish Pre-Renaissance, who is considered one of the great creators of lithics and Christmas carols. -
1483
Martín Lutero
He published his criticism against the Catholic Church and its center of power in Rome that launched the Reformation, he was an Augustinian Catholic theologian, philosopher and friar. -
1492
discovery of america
Christopher Columbus arrived in what we know today as America when he encountered the Antilles and landed on the island of Guanahaní, which he named San Salvador (later he arrived in the current territories of Santo Domingo and Cuba). -
1500
Cristóbal de Morales
Cristóbal de Morales Spanish Catholic priest and chapelmaster, being the main representative of the Andalusian polyphonist school and one of the three greats, along with Tomás Luis de Victoria and Francisco Guerrero, of the Spanish polyphonic composition of the Renaissance -
1510
Antonio de Cabezón
Was a Spanish organist, harpist and composer of the Renaissance. The music works for keyboard, harp and vihuela. -
1525
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Most representative author of polyphonic works adjusted to the new demands of the Counter-Reformation. His works from those years stand out for the clarity achieved, leaving the melody in the hands of the upper voice and precisely adjusting the rhythm of the speech. -
1532
Orlando di Lasso
He is considered the leader of the Roman school, in his time of musical maturity, as well as one of the most influential European musicians in the 16th century. -
1533
Andrea Gabrieli
Andrea Gabrieli was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. The uncle of the somewhat more famous Giovanni Gabrieli, he was the first internationally renowned member of the Venetian School of composers, and was extremely influential in spreading the Venetian style in Italy as well as in Germany. -
1544
Maddelena Casulana
Maddalena Casulana (c. 1544-1590) was an Italian Renaissance composer, singer, and lutenist, recognized for being the first woman to publish art under her written name. -
1548
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Chapel teacher, organist and one of the most relevant Spanish composers of all time, he was a Catholic priest, chapel teacher and famous polyphonist composer of the Spanish Renaissance. He has been considered one of the most relevant and advanced composers of his time, with an innovative style that heralded the imminent Baroque. -
1557
Giovanni Gabrieli
Giovanni Gabrieli was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of his time, and represents the culmination of the style of the Venetian School, at the time of the shift from Renaissance to Baroque idioms. -
1566
Carlo de Gesualdo
Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian composer, one of the most significant figures of late Renaissance music with intensely expressive madrigals and pieces of sacred music with a chromaticism that would not be heard again until the end of the 19th century. -
1567
Claudio Monteverdi
he was the most imaginative and innovative composer of his time; We owe him vocal and dramatic pieces, including sacred works and madrigals, in which the music fits perfectly with the text. -
Period: to
Baroque
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Giacomo Carissimi
He introduced the accompaniment of instrumental music to churches and was the first to introduce the cantata for religious themes. -
Barbara Strozzi
She was an Italian Baroque singer and composer. During his lifetime, he published eight volumes of his own music and had more secular music in print than any other composer of the time. -
Stradivarius
He manufactured almost 1,200 instruments throughout his more than 70 years of work, and they are distinguished by their very fine finishes, wood of extreme iridescent beauty and the label that mentions the year and place where they were built. -
Henry Purcell
He incorporated French and Italian stylistic elements into his music, generating his own English style of baroque music. -
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Antonio Vivaldi
He was a Venetian Baroque composer, violinist, businessman, teacher and Catholic priest. He composed more than 700 works for different instruments, including more than 400 violin concertos and 46 operas. -
George Philipp Telemann
He left a gigantic legacy of more than a thousand religious and innumerable secular cantatas, around fifteen hundred instrumental works, more than forty-five Passions and forty operas. He was possibly the most prolific composer of all time. -
Georg Friedrich Händel
He wrote operas, stage music, oratorios, serenades, odes and a large number of cantatas. One of his emblematic works is the anthem he composed for the coronation of the English King George II. Since then, it has been sung at every British coronation, including that of Elizabeth II. -
Johann Sebastian Bach
He was a great composer, but also a great player of the harpsichord, keyboard and organ. He played some instruments such as organ, harpsichord, harpsichord, violin and viola da gamba.