Flashcards: 17th-century composers

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, O.

Jean de Sainte-Colombe (ca. 1640–1700) was a French composer and violist.

Christopher Tye (c.1505 – before 1573) was an English Renaissance composer and organist.

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (/ˈjɑːn ˈpiːtərsoʊn ˈsweɪlɪŋk/; April or May, 1562 in Deventer – 16 October 1621 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras.

Paul or Paulus Stockmann (3 January 1603, Lützen – 6 September 1636, Mutschau, near Hohenmölsen) was a German academic, preacher and hymn-writer.

Sethus Calvisius or Setho Calvisio, originally Seth Kalwitz (21 February 1556 – 24 November 1615), was a German music theorist, composer, chronologer, astronomer, and teacher of the late Renaissance.

Giles Farnaby (c. 1563 – November 1640) was an English composer and virginalist of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

Pierre Beauchamp (also Beauchamps, called "Charles" or Charles-Louis Beauchamp) (30 October 1631 – February 1705) was a French choreographer, dancer and composer, and the probable inventor of Beauchamp-Feuillet notation.

Giovanni Picchi (1571 or 1572 – 17 May 1643) was an Italian composer, organist, lutenist, and harpsichordist of the early Baroque era.

Ascanio Mayone (ca. 1565 – 1627) was a Neapolitan composer and harpist.

Giovanni Maria Trabaci (ca. 1575 – 31 December 1647) was an Italian composer and organist.

Paul Gerhardt (12 March 1607 – 27 May 1676) was a German theologian, Lutheran minister and hymn writer.

Johann Hermann Schein (20 January 1586 – 19 November 1630) was a German composer of the early Baroque era.

Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi (ca. 1554 – 4 January 1609), was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods.

Scheidt was born in Halle, and after early studies there, he went to Amsterdam to study with Sweelinck, the distinguished Dutch composer, whose work had a clear influence on Scheidt's style.

René Ouvrard (1624–1694) was a French priest, writer and composer.

Johann Jakob Froberger (baptized 19 May 1616 – 7 May 1667) was a German Baroque composer, keyboard virtuoso, and organist.

Johann Georg Albinus (6 March 1624 – 25 May 1679) was a German Protestant pastor and hymnwriter.

Richard Ayleward (1626–1669) was an English composer and musician.

Christian Keymann (also Christian Keimann; 27 February 1607 – 13 January 1662) was a German hymnwriter.

Andreas Tscherning (18 November 1611 – 27 September 1659) was a German poet, hymn writer and literary theorist in the tradition of Martin Opitz.

Domenico Obizzi (fl. 1620s) was an Italian composer and singer.

Matthäus Wieser (1617–1678) was a collector and songwriter of work songs, often for miners.

Jan Baptist Verrijt (Rotterdam c.1600-1650) was a Dutch composer and organist of the St.

Johann Jakob Schütz (7 September 1640, Frankfurt – 22 May 1690, Frankfurt) was a German lawyer and hymnwriter.

Johann Melchior Gletle (July 1626 – 6 September 1683) was a Swiss organist, Kapellmeister and composer.

Michael Franck (16 March 1609 – 24 September 1667) was a German baker, teacher, poet, and composer.

Carlo Donato Cossoni (Gravedona 10 November 1623-1700) was an Italian composer.

Estêvão Lopes Morago (Spanish: Esteban Lopez Morago) (Vallecas, Spain, ca. 1575 – Viseu, Portugal, after 1630) was a Spanish-born composer who studied, lived, worked and died in Portugal.

Georg Arnold (23 April 1621 in Feldsberg – 16 January 1676 in Bamberg) was an Austrian composer and organist.

Giuseppe Tricarico (1623 in Gallipoli – 1697) was an Italian church and opera composer.

Salomo Liscow (1640, Niemitsch – 1689) was a German clergyman and hymn writer.

Erasmo Bartoli Filippino or Erasmo di Bartolo, called padre Raimo (1606–1656), was an Italian priest, composer, and teacher at the conservatories in Naples.

Pietro Paolo Sabbatino or Sabbatini (1600 – 1657) was an Italian composer, orchestra director and musician, who was born and died in Rome, and worked mainly in his home city.

Yatsuhashi Kengyō (八橋 検校; 1614–1685) was a Japanese musician and composer from Kyoto.

David Denicke (30 January 1603 – 1 April 1680) was a German jurist and hymn writer.

Johann Fran(c)k (June 1, 1618 – June 18, 1677) was a German politician, mayor of Guben and a member of the Landtag of Lower Lusatia, a lyric poet and hymnist.

Heinrich Müller (18 October 1631 – 13/23 September 1675) was a German devotional author, Protestant author of hymns and Lutheran theologian.

Christian Scriver (January 2, 1629 – April 5, 1693) was a German Lutheran minister and devotional writer.

Johann Olearius (17 September 1611 – 24 April 1684) was a German hymnwriter, preacher, and academic.

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Johannes K(h)uen (1606 – 14 November 1675), priest, poet, and composer, was one of the leading literary figures of the early Baroque in Bavaria.

Bertrand "Bénigne" de Bacilly (Normandy c. 1625 - Paris, 27 September 1690), was a French composer and music theorist, a reformer of the air de cour according to the theories of Pierre de Nyert.

Ferdinando Richardson (c. 1558 – 1618) was an English courtier and musician.

Jan Campanus Vodňanský (Johannes Vodnianus Campanus, Jan Vodňanský Campanus; also Jan z Vodňan, Jan Kampánus Vodňanský, Ionnes Campanus Vodnianus) (27 December 1572 – 13 December 1622) was a Czech humanist, composer, pedagogue, poet, and dramatist.

Marieta Morosina Priuli (fl. 1665) was an Italian composer.

Martin Rinkart, or Rinckart (23 April 1586 – 8 December 1649) was a German Lutheran clergyman and hymnist.