Gilles Binchois
Gilles de Bins, also known as Binchois (c. 1400–September 20, 1460), was a composer and singer from the early Renaissance period. He was part of the Burgundian School, a group of composers in Burgundy, and is best known for creating beautiful melodies and small-scale musical pieces.
Guillaume Du Fay
Guillaume Du Fay ( / dj uː ˈ f aɪ / dyoo- FEYE , French: [ɡijom dy fa(j)i] ; also Dufay , Du Fayt ; 5 August 1397 – 27 November 1474) was a composer and music theorist from the early Renaissance period. He is often described as French or Franco-Flemish. He was considered the most important European composer of his time, and his music was widely performed and copied.
Heinrich Isaac
Heinrich Isaac (around 1450 – March 26, 1517) was a composer from the Netherlands during the Renaissance period. He created masses, motets, songs in French, German, and Italian, and instrumental music. He was a contemporary of Josquin des Prez and helped shape the development of music in Germany.
Johannes Ockeghem
Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1410 – February 6, 1497) was a composer and singer from the early Renaissance period. He was an important European composer during the time between Guillaume Du Fay and Josquin des Prez.
Philippe de Vitry
Philippe de Vitry (31 October 1291 – 9 June 1361) was a French musician, poet, bishop, and music theorist known for his work in the ars nova style of late medieval music. He was a skilled and influential composer, widely respected as one of the most important musicians of his time. The Renaissance scholar Petrarch praised him highly, describing him as “the keenest and most ardent seeker of truth, so great a philosopher of our age.” The significant music treatise Ars nova notandi (1322) is commonly credited to Vitry.
Francesco Landini
Francesco Landini (born around 1325 or 1335; died 2 September 1397) was a Florentine composer, poet, organist, singer, and instrument maker. He was also known by many other names. Landini was an important person in the music of the Trecento, a time period in Italian history.
Guillaume de Machaut
Guillaume de Machaut (French: [ɡijom də maʃo], Old French: [ɡiˈʎawmə də maˈtʃaw(θ)]; also spelled Machau and Machault; born around 1300 – died April 1377) was a French composer and poet who played a key role in the ars nova style of late medieval music. His influence was so strong that modern music experts use the year of his death to mark the end of the ars nova style and the beginning of the later ars subtilior movement. He is considered the most important French composer and poet of the 14th century and is often viewed as the leading European composer of that time.
Bernart de Ventadorn
Bernart de Ventadorn (also known as Bernard de Ventadour or Bernat del Ventadorn; born around 1130–1140 and died around 1190–1200) was an Occitan poet and composer from the classical period of troubadour poetry. He is widely considered the most important troubadour in both poetry and music. Out of 45 poems he is known to have written, 18 of their melodies have survived, more than any other 12th-century troubadour.
Adam de la Halle
Adam de la Halle (lived from about 1245 to 1250 and died between 1285 and 1288, or possibly after 1306) was a French poet and composer known as a trouvère. He was one of the few medieval composers who created both music with a single voice (monophonic) and music with multiple voices (polyphonic). Because of this, he is seen as both traditional and innovative, leading to a complex legacy.
Pérotin
Pérotin (fl. c. 1200) was a composer connected to the Notre Dame school of polyphony in Paris and the ars antiqua musical style of the high medieval period.