Early Music History Composers

Question 0

Troubadours, Trouvères

Answer 0

ca. 1100

Question 1

Hildegard von Bingen

Answer 1

1098-1179

Question 2

Leonin

Answer 2

1150-1201

Question 3

Perotin

Answer 3

ca. 1200

Question 4

Philippe de Vitry

Answer 4

1291-1361

Question 5

Guillaume de Machaut

Answer 5

1300-1377

Messe de Notre Dame 1364

Question 6

Francesco Landini

Answer 6

1325-1396

Question 7

John Dunstable

Answer 7

ca. 1390-1453

Question 8

Guillaume Dufay

Answer 8

ca. 1400-1474

Question 9

Johannes Ockeghem

Answer 9

ca. 1420-1497

Question 10

Jacob Obrecht

Answer 10

1452-1505

Question 11

Josquin des Prez

Answer 11

1440-1521

Question 12

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Answer 12

ca. 1525-1594

Question 13

Tomas Luis da Victoria

Answer 13

ca. 1549-1611

Question 14

Roland de Lassus

Answer 14

ca. 1532-1594 Franco-Flemish but worked in German aka Orlando di Lasso

Question 15

Jacques Arcadelt

Answer 15

ca. 1505-1560

Question 16

Carlo Gesualdo

Answer 16

ca. 1560-1613

Question 17

Andrea Gabrieli

Answer 17

ca. 1510-1586

Question 18

Giovanni Gabrieli

Answer 18

ca. 1553-1612

Question 19

Giulio Caccini

Answer 19

ca. 1550-1618
Italian, Florentine Camerata
Monodic and strophic

Question 20

Jacopo Peri

Answer 20

1561-1633

Eurydice 1600

Question 21

Claudio Monteverdi

Answer 21

1567-1643

Orfeo 1607

Question 22

Stefano Landi

Answer 22

ca. 1590-1655

Question 23

Heinrich Schütz

Answer 23

1585-1672

Question 24

Jean Baptiste Lully

Answer 24

1632-1687

Question 25

Henry Purcell

Answer 25

1659-1695

Question 26

Alessandro Scarlatti

Answer 26

1660-1725 | Leading composer of Neapolitan opera

Question 27

Dietrich Buxtehude

Answer 27

ca. 1637-1707 | Sacred concerto

Question 28

Johann Pachelbel

Answer 28

1653-1706 | Sacred concerto

Question 29

Arcangelo Corelli

Answer 29

1653-1713 First "modern" composer, wrote lots of sonatas First real "progression"

Question 30

Giuseppe Torelli

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1658-1709 | First for organized form of concerto

Question 31

Antonio Vivaldi

Answer 31

1678-1741

Question 32

John Gay & Johann Christoph Pepusch

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1685-1732 & 1667-1752 The Beggar's Opera 1728

Question 33

George Frederic Handel

Answer 33

1685-1759

Question 34

Johann Adolf Hasse

Answer 34

1699-1783

Question 35

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

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1710-1736 | La serva padrona 1733

Question 36

Jean Philippe Rameau

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1683-1764

Question 37

Johann Sebastian Bach

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1685-1750

Question 38

Adam de la Halle

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ca. 1240-1288 | Jeu de Robin et de Marion ca. 1284

Question 39

Gilles Binchois

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Ca. 1400-1460

Question 40

Antoine Busnoys

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Ca. 1430-1492

Question 41

William Byrd

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Ca. 1540-1623

Question 42

Adrian Willaert

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Ca. 1490-1562

Question 43

Cristobal de Morales

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Spanish ca 1500-1553

Question 44

Cipriano de Rore

Answer 44

1516-1565

Question 45

Luca Marenzio

Answer 45

1553-1599

Question 46

Giacomo Gastoldi

Answer 46

Ca. 1544-1609 | Foremost canzonetta and balletto composer

Question 47

Claudin de Sermisy

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Ca. 1490-1562 | Chanson composer

Question 48

John Dowland

Answer 48

1563-1626 | Lute songs

Question 49

Thomas Campion

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1567-1620 | Lute songs

Question 50

Claudio Merulo

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1533-1604 | Toccatas

Question 51

Giacomo Carissimi

Answer 51

1605-1674 | Italian oratorio composer

Question 52

François Couperin

Answer 52

1668-1733 | French keyboard composer

Question 53

Georg Philipp Telemann

Answer 53

``` 1681-1767 Mostly sacred (worked in a church) but a few operas ```