Johann Sebastian Bach31 March 1685, German
Composer
Henry Purcell10 September 1659, British
Composer
Johann Pachelbel01 September 1653, German
Composer, Organist and Teacher
Claudio Monteverdi15 May 1567, Italian
Composer
Domenico Scarlatti26 October 1685, Italian
Musical Composer
Jean-Baptiste Lully28 November 1632, French, Italian
Composer
Arcangelo Corelli17 February 1653, Italian
Composer
Giuseppe Tartini08 April 1692, Italian
Composer
Dieterich Buxtehude24 June 1637, German, Danish
Musical Composer and Organist
Francesca Caccini18 September 1587, Italian
Composer & Singer
Francesco Cavalli14 February 1602, Italian
Composer, Organist
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor09 June 1640, Austrian, Hungarian
Composer
Juana Inés de la Cruz12 November 1651, Mexican
Poet, Nun, Writer, Mathematician, Philosopher,
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor13 July 1608, Hungarian
Composer
Georg Philipp Telemann14 March 1681, German
Composer, Musicologist, Musician, Conductor, Music
Jean Philippe Rameau25 September 1683, French
Composer
Carlo Gesualdo08 March 1566, Italian
Composer
Tomaso Albinoni08 June 1671, Italian
Composer
François Couperin10 November 1668, French
Composer, Organist, Musician, Viol player,
Alessandro Scarlatti02 May 1660, Italian
Composer, Musician
Marc-Antoine Charpentier1643 AD, French
composer, choreographer
Turlough O'Carolan1670 AD, Irish
Composer
Barbara Strozzi06 August 1619, Italian
Singer, Composer, Actor, Model
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber12 August 1644, Austrian, Czech
Composer
Dimitrie Cantemir26 October 1673, Romanian
Soldier
Marin Marais31 May 1656, French
Composer, Viol player
Johann Joseph Fux1660 AD, Austrian
organist, conductor, composer, musicologist, music
Girolamo Frescobaldi13 September 1583, Italian
organist, composer, pianist
Jan Dismas Zelenka16 October 1679, Czech
Composer
John Bull1562 AD, British
Composer
Joseph Martin Kraus20 June 1756, German
Composer
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Nicola Porpora17 August 1686, Italian
Composer, Music educator
Benedetto Marcello09 August 1686, Italian
composer, poet, writer
Pietro Locatelli03 September 1695, Italian
Musician
Jeremiah Clarke1674 AD, British
Composer
Johann Joachim Quantz30 January 1697, German
Composer, Musicologist, Music theorist, Musical
Thomas Campion22 February 1567, British
poet, composer, music theorist, musicologist
Sylvius Leopold Weiss12 October 1687, German
Composer
Antonio Caldara1670 AD, Italian
composer
Leonardo Vinci1690 AD, Italian
Composer
Alessandro Stradella03 July 1643, Italian
Composer
Johann Jakob Froberger19 May 1616, German
Composer
Francesco Geminiani05 December 1687, Italian
Violinist
Giacomo Carissimi18 April 1605, Italian
Composer
Jean-Joseph Mouret11 April 1682, French
Composer
Johann Mattheson28 September 1681, German
Composer
Pietro della Valle02 April 1586, Italian
Composer
Matthew Locke1621 AD, British
Composer
Constantijn Huygens04 September 1596, Netherlands Antilles
Poet
Christoph Graupner13 January 1683, German
Harpsichordist
John Blow23 February 1649, British
Composer
Johann Kuhnau06 April 1660, German
Polymath
Louis Couperin1626 AD, French
Composer
Hans Leo Hassler26 October 1564, German
Composer
Giovanni Bononcini18 July 1670, Italian
Composer
Samuel Scheidt03 November 1587, German
Composer
William Lawes1602 AD, British
Composer
Francesco Durante31 March 1684, Italian
Composer
Georg Muffat01 June 1653, French
Composer
Michel Richard Delalande15 December 1657, French
Composer
Pierre Beauchamp30 October 1631, French
Choreographer
André Campra04 December 1660, French
Composer
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier23 December 1689, French
Composer
Louis-Claude Daquin04 July 1694, French
Composer
John Playford1623 AD, British
Bookseller
Jacques-Martin Hotteterre29 September 1674, French
Composer
Georg Böhm02 September 1661, German
Organist
Reinhard Keiser09 January 1674, German
Composer
Emilio de' Cavalieri1550 AD, Italian
Composer
Giovanni Legrenzi12 August 1626, Italian
Composer
Thomas Ravenscroft1588 AD, British
Composer
Antonio Cesti05 August 1623, Italian
Composer
Thomas Tomkins1572 AD, British, Welsh
Composer
Agostino Steffani25 July 1654, Italian
Composer
Nicholas Lanier10 September 1588, British
Composer
Johann Gottfried Walther18 September 1684, German
Composer
William Croft30 December 1678, British
Composer
Leonardo Leo05 August 1694, Italian
Composer
Philippe de Monte1521 AD, Belgian
Composer
John Jenkins1592 AD, British
Composer
Johann Christoph Pepusch1667 AD, German
Composer
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault19 December 1676, French
Mmusician
Claude Le Jeune1528 AD, French
Composer
Johann Kaspar Kerll09 April 1627, German
Composer
Krystof Harant1564 AD, Czech
Writer
Adriano Banchieri03 September 1568, Italian
Composer
Johannes Crüger09 April 1598, German
Composer
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières1601 AD, French
Harpsichordist
John Bennet1575 AD, British
Composer
Giovanni de' Bardi05 February 1534, Italian
Literary Critic
Henry Lawes05 December 1595, British
Songwriter
Johann Philipp Krieger25 February 1649, German
Composer
John Wilbye07 March 1574, British
Composer
Christopher Simpson1606 AD, British
Composer