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The Epitaph of Sicylus is the oldest surviving musical composition. It dates back to Greece and was found on a marble column placed over the tomb that Sicylus allegedly had built for his wife Euterpe, near Ephesus, in present-day Turkey. With this exercise, you'll be able to understand the score and decrypt each of the symbols. -
Gregorian chant is the proper liturgical chant of the Roman Catholic Church. Inherited from an ancient tradition, this musical repertoire was composed primarily from Latin verses from the Bible. -
Guido of Arezzo was an Italian Benedictine monk and music theorist who is one of the central figures of medieval music along with Hucbald.. -
Hildegard of Bingen was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath, active as a composer, writer, philosopher, scientist, naturalist, physician, mystic, monastic leader, and prophetess during the High Middle Ages. -
Léonin or Magister Leoninus is, along with Perotín, the first known composer of polyphonic organum, associated with the Notre Dame School. -
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 trobar leu style. -
Polyphonic music from a period that is not entirely specific but in any case prior to the 14th century, which developed particularly brilliantly in France and whose main manifestation was the polytextual motet. -
Perotin, 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 Notre Dame School of Paris, where the polyphonic style began to take shape. -
Alfonso X of Castile, called the Wise, was the king of Castile and the other titled kingdoms between 1252 and 1284. Upon the death of his father, Ferdinand III the Saint, he resumed the offensive against the Muslims and occupied Jerez, Salé, the port of Rabat and conquered Cádiz. -
Guillaume de Machaut was a medieval French cleric, poet, and composer. His influence was enormous, and he is historically the leading exponent of the Ars nova movement, being considered the most celebrated composer of the 14th century. He contributed to the development of the motet and secular song. -
Designates the musical production, both French and Italian, after the last works of the ars antiqua until the predominance of the Burgundian school, which will occupy the first place in the musical panorama of the West in the 15th century. -
Francesco Landini or Landino was an Italian composer, organist, singer, poet, instrument maker, and astrologer. He was one of the most famous and admired composers of the second half of the 14th century and undoubtedly the most famous composer in Italy. -
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg, better known as Johannes Gutenberg or Johannes Gutemberg, was a German goldsmith, inventor of the modern printing press with movable type, around 1450. -
Juan de Fermoselle, better known as Juan del Encina —in the current spelling of his name— or Juan del Enzina —in the spelling of the time—, was a poet, musician and playwright of the Spanish Renaissance in the time of the Catholic Monarchs. -
Juan de Fermoselle, better known as Juan del Encina (in the current spelling of his name) or Juan del Enzina (in the spelling of the time), was a poet, musician and playwright of the Spanish Renaissance during the time of the Catholic Monarchs. -
Martin Luther, born Martin Luder, was a theologian, philosopher, and Augustinian Catholic friar who began and promoted the Protestant Reformation in Germany and whose teachings inspired the theological and cultural doctrine known as Lutheranism. -
Spanish Catholic priest and chapel master, he was the main representative of the Andalusian polyphonic school and one of the three greats, along with Tomás Luis de Victoria and Francisco Guerrero, of Spanish polyphonic composition of the Renaissance. -
Antonio de Cabezón was a Spanish Renaissance organist, harpist and composer. -
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known representative of the Roman School of musical composition of the 16th century. -
Orlando di Lasso, also known as Orlandus Lassus, Roland de Lassus, Roland Delattre, or Orlande de Lassus, was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. Along with Palestrina and Victoria, he is considered one of the most influential composers of the 16th century. -
Andrea Gabrieli was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. Uncle of perhaps the more famous composer Giovanni Gabrieli, he was the first internationally renowned member of the Venetian School of composers. He was highly influential in spreading the Venetian style in both Italy and Germany. -
Maddalena Casulana was an Italian composer, lute player, and singer of the late Renaissance. She was the first female composer to have an entire volume of her music printed and published in the history of Western music. -
Tomás Luis de Victoria was a Catholic priest, choirmaster, and celebrated polyphonic composer of the Spanish Renaissance. He has been considered one of the most important and progressive composers of his time, with an innovative style that heralded the imminent Baroque. -
Giovanni Gabrieli was an Italian composer and organist, born and died in Venice. One of the most influential musicians of his time, he represents the culmination of the Venetian school, marking the transition from Renaissance to Baroque music. -
Claudio Monteverdi, whose full name was Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi, was an Italian composer, violagambist, singer, choir director and priest -
Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian composer, one of the most significant figures in late Renaissance music, with intensely expressive madrigals and sacred music with a chromaticism that would not be heard again until the end of the 19th century. -
Giacomo Carissimi was one of the most eminent Italian composers of the early Baroque and one of the main representatives of the Roman School. He was born in Marino, near Rome, in 1604 or 1605 -
Barbara Strozzi, also known as Barbara Valle, was an Italian Baroque singer and composer. During her lifetime, she published eight volumes of her own music and had more secular music in print than any other composer of the time. -
Antonio Stradivari was the most prominent Italian luthier. The Latin form of his surname, Stradivarius, is used to refer to his instruments -
Henry Purcell was an English composer of the Baroque. Considered one of the best English composers of all time, he incorporated French and Italian stylistic elements into his music, generating his own English style of baroque music -
Antonio Vivaldi was a Venetian Baroque composer, violinist, impresario, teacher, and Catholic priest. He was nicknamed Il prete rosso (The Red Priest) because he was a priest and had red hair. -
Georg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque composer, although his work also had characteristics of principles of classicism. He is considered the most prolific composer in the history of music. Self-taught in music, he studied Law at the University of Leipzig -
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, musician, conductor, Kapellmeister, cantor, and teacher of the Baroque period. He was the most prominent member of one of history's most distinguished musical families, the Bach family, which produced over 35 famous composers. -
George Frideric Handel was a German composer, later naturalized British, considered one of the leading figures in the history of music, especially Baroque music, and one of the most influential composers of Western and universal music. -
Christoph Willibald Gluck, from 1756 Chevalier de Gluck, was a German composer from the Bohemian region of the Czech Republic. He is considered one of the most important opera composers of the Classical period of the second half of the 18th century. -
Franz Joseph Haydn, known as Joseph Haydn, was an Austrian composer. He is one of the leading figures of the Classical period, and is known as the "father of the symphony" and the "father of the string quartet" thanks to his significant contributions to both genres. -
Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart, also known as Nannerl and Marianne, was a famous 18th-century musician. She was the older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the daughter of Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart. -
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, better known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was an Austrian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher, from the former Archbishopric of Salzburg. -
Maria Theresia von Paradis was an Austrian pianist and composer. Although she lost her sight completely at the age of three, this did not prevent the output and work of this great pianist, singer, and composer from continuing to stand out. -
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and piano teacher. His musical legacy spans, chronologically, from the Classical period to the beginnings of Romanticism.
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Gioachino Rossini was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber and piano pieces, and some sacred music. -
Franz Peter Schubert, known as Franz Schubert, was an Austrian composer of the early Romantic period and, at the same time, a continuator of the classical sonata following the model of Ludwig van Beethoven. -
Felix Mendelssohn, whose full name was Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, was a German composer, conductor, and pianist of Romantic music, a member of the same family as the pianist and composer Fanny Mendelssohn and the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. -
Frédéric François Chopin was a French-Polish composer, virtuoso pianist, and teacher, considered one of the most important in history and one of the greatest representatives of musical romanticism, who wrote mainly for solo piano. -
Robert Schumann was a 19th-century German composer, pianist, and music critic, considered one of the most important and representative composers of the Romantic era. Schumann abandoned his law studies to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. -
Franz Liszt was an Austro-Hungarian Romantic composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, piano teacher, arranger, and Franciscan layman. His Hungarian name was Liszt Ferencz, according to modern usage Liszt Ferenc, and from 1859 to 1865 he was officially known as Franz Ritter von Liszt. -
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, poet, essayist, playwright, and music theorist of the Romantic era. His operas are particularly noteworthy, in which, unlike other composers, he also wrote the libretto and designed the sets. -
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic opera composer, one of the most important of all time. His work bridges the gap between the bel canto of Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti, and the verismo movement and Puccini. -
Johannes Brahms was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic era, considered the most classical of the composers of that period. Born into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. -
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini, better known simply as Giacomo Puccini, was an Italian opera composer, considered among the greatest, of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was a visionary, creator of the musical concepts that would govern cinema during the 20th century. -
Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolff was an Austrian composer of Slovenian origin who lived in Vienna during the late 19th century. An enthusiastic follower of Richard Wagner, he became involved in the disputes that existed in Vienna at that time between Wagnerians and formalists or Brahmsians. -
Gustav Mahler was an Austro-Bohemian composer and conductor whose works, along with those of Richard Strauss, are considered among the most important of the post-Romantic period. In the first decade of the 20th century, Gustav Mahler was one of the most important conductors and opera directors of his time. -
Basketball was created in December 1891 by James Naismith, a physical education instructor at the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts. Naismith devened the game to keep his students active during the winter, using soccer balls and peach baskets as baskets. He wrote thirteen basic rules, and the first official game was played in January 1892. -
The Club Atlético de Madrid S. D. is a Spanish soccer club founded on April 26, 1903 in the city of Madrid, Spain -
The Club Estudiantes de Baloncesto, called for sponsorship reasons Movistar Estudiantes, and colloquially Estudiantes or Estu, is a Spanish basketball club founded in 1948 based in the city of Madrid, which competes in the Primera FEB. It was, until 2021, together with Club Joventut Badalona and Real Madrid, the only Spanish club that had participated in all editions of the highest category of Spanish basketball, from its creation as a Spanish League to its replacement by the ACB League.