# List of Renaissance composers

Lists of classical composers by era and century :
| Medieval | (500–1400) |
| Renaissance | (1400–1600) |
| Baroque | (1600–1760) |
| Classical | (1730–1820) |
| Romantic | (1815–1910) |
| Modernist | (1890–1950) |
| Postmodernist | (since 1930) |
| 20th century | (1901–1999) |
| 21st century | (since 2000) |
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Renaissance music flourished in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. The second major period of Western classical music, the lives of Renaissance composers are much better known than earlier composers, with even letters surviving between composers. Renaissance music saw the introduction of written instrumental music, although vocal works still reigned in popularity. There is no strict division between period, so many later medieval and earlier Baroque composers appear here as well.

## Renaissance composers

Renaissance composers :
| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Works and remarks |
| Zacara da Teramo | 1350/60 – 1413/16 | Italian | |
| Paolo da Firenze (a.k.a. Paolo Tenorista) | c. 1355 – c. 1436 | Italian | |
| Nikola the Serb | fl. late 14th century | Serbian | |
| Hugo von Montfort | 1357 – 1423 | German | |
| Giovanni Mazzuoli | 1360 – 1426 | Italian | Also known as Jovannes de Florentia, Giovanni degli Organi and Giovanni di Niccol |
| Pycard | fl. c. 1390-after c. 1410 | English | Has works preserved in the first layer of the Old Hall Manuscript and elsewhere. His identity is unclear; probably English, but possibly from France. |
| Johannes Tapissier (Jean de Noyers) | c. 1370 – before 1410 | French | |
| Leonel Power | c. 1370 – 1445 | English | |
| Grazioso da Padova | fl. 1390?–1407 | Italian | Also known as Gratiosus de Padua |
| Antonio da Cividale | fl. 1392–1421 | Italian | Also known as Antonius de Civitate Austrie |
| Nicolas Grenon | c. 1375 – 1456 | French | |
| Oswald von Wolkenstein | 1376/77 – 1445 | German | |
| Matteo da Perugia | fl. 1400–1416 | Italian | |
| Antonius Romanus | fl. 1400–1432 | Italian | |
| Pierre Fontaine | c. 1380 – c. 1450 | French | |
| Mikołaj Radomski | 1380 – 15th century | Polish | |
| Thomas Fabri | 1380 – 1420 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Baude Cordier | c. 1380 – before 1440 | French | |
| Ugolino da Forlì | 1380 – 1457 | Italian | Also known as Ugolino da Orvieto |
| Nicolaus Ricii de Nucella Campli | died after 1436, fl. 1401–1420 | Italian | |
| Guillaume Legrant (Lemarcherier) | fl. 1405-after 1449 | French | |
| Jacobus Vide | fl. 1405?-after 1433 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Beltrame Feragut | c. 1385 – c. 1450 | French | Also known as Bertrand di Vignone |
| Bartolomeo da Bologna | fl. 1405–1427 | Italian | |
| Johannes Cesaris | fl. c. 1406–1417 | French | |
| Roy Henry | fl. 1410-after 1410 | English | Very likely to be Henry V of England (1387–1422) |
| Johannes de Limburgia | fl. 1408–1431 | Franco-Flemish | Also spelled Lymburgia; also called Johannes Vinandi |
| John Dunstaple (or Dunstable) | c. 1390 – 1453 | English | |
| Byttering possibly Thomas Byttering | fl. c. 1410-after 1420 | English | |
| Guillaume Dufay (Guillaume Du Fay) | 1397 – 1474 | French | |
| Estienne Grossin | fl. 1418–1421 | French | |
| Johannes Brassart | c. 1400 – 1455 | Burgundian | |
| Nicolaus Zacharie | c. 1400 or before – 1466 | Italian | |
| Johannes Cornago | c. 1400 – after 1475 | Spanish | |
| Gilles Binchois (Gilles de Bins) | c. 1400 – 1460 | Burgundian | |
| Richard Loqueville | died 1418 | French | |
| G. Dupoitt | fl. c. 1420-1430 | French | |
| Acourt | fl. first half of the 15th century | French | |
| Arnold de Lantins | fl. 1423-1431/1432 | Franco-Flemish | especially active in German-speaking areas during the early Reformation period |
| Conrad Paumann | c. 1410 – 1473 | German | |
| Johannes de Quadris | c. 1410 – ? 1457 | Italian | |
| John Plummer | c. 1410 – c. 1483 | English | |
| Johannes Ockeghem | c. 1410 – 1497 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Clement Liebert | fl. 1433–1454 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Johannes Fedé | c. 1415 – 1477? | French | |
| Henry Abyngdon | c. 1418 – 1497 | English | |
| Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro | c. 1420 – 1484 | Italian | Dance master |
| Johannes Legrant | fl. c. 1420-after 1440 | French | |
| Hugo de Lantins | fl. c. 1420-after 1430 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Biquardus | fl. 1440–1450 | French | |
| Gilles Joye | 1424/1425 – 1483 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Reginaldus Libert | fl. c. 1425-after 1435 | French | |
| Jean Cousin | before 1425 – after 1475 | French | |
| Petrus de Domarto | fl. c. 1445–1455 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Johannes Regis | c. 1425 – c. 1496 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Johannes Pullois | died 1478 | Franco-Flemish | Active in the Low Countries and Italy |
| Juan de Urrede | c. 1430 – after 1482 | Spanish | Or Johannes de Wreede |
| John Hothby Johannes Ottobi | c. 1430 – 1487 | English | English theorist and composer mainly active in Italy. |
| Robert Morton | c. 1430 – 1479 | English-Burgundian | |
| Antoine Busnois | c. 1430 – 1492 | French | |
| William Hawte William Haute | c. 1430 – 1497 | English | |
| Antonio Cornazzano | c. 1430 – 1484 | Italian | Dancing master |
| Guillaume le Rouge | fl. 1450-after 1465 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Walter Frye | fl. c. 1450-1474 | English | |
| William Horwood | c. 1430 – 1484 | English | Some of his music is collected in the Eton Choirbook. |
| Eloy d'Amerval | fl. 1455–1508 | French | |
| Johannes Tinctoris | c. 1435 – 1511 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Richard Hygons | c. 1435 – c. 1509 | English | |
| Adrien Basin | fl. 1457-after 1498 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Nycasius de Clibano | fl. 1457–1497 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Johannes Martini | c. 1440 – 1497/98 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Juan de Triana | fl. c. 1460–1500 | Spanish | |
| Antonius Janue | fl. 1460 | Italian | |
| Firminus Caron | fl. c. 1460–c. 1475 | French | |
| Juan Pérez de Gijón | fl. c. 1460–1500 | Spanish | |
| Guillaume Faugues | fl. c. 1460–1475 | French | |
| Heinrich Finck | 1444/1445 – 1527 | German | |
| Jan z Lublina | late 15th century – 1540 | Polish | |
| Gilbert Banester | c. 1445 – 1487 | English | |
| Alexander Agricola | 1445/1446 – 1506 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Johannes de Stokem | c. 1445 – 1487 or 1501 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Adam von Fulda | c. 1445 – 1505 | German | |
| Gaspar van Weerbeke | c. 1445 – after 1516 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Isaiah the Serb | fl. later 15th century | Serbian | |
| Hayne van Ghizeghem | c. 1445 – after 1476 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Jehan Fresneau | fl. 1468–1505 | French | |
| Philippe Basiron | c. 1449 – 1491 | French | |
| Colinet de Lannoy | died before 1497 | French | |
| Abertijne Malcourt | c. 1450 – c. 1510 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Edmund Turges (possibly the same as Edmund Sturges) | 1450 – 1500 | English | Has a number of works preserved in the Eton Choirbook; at least three Magnificat settings and two masses have been lost. |
| Robert Wilkinson | c. 1450 – after 1515 | English | |
| Walter Lambe | c. 1450 – after 1504 | English | Major contributor to the Eton Choirbook. |
| Matthaeus Pipelare | c. 1450 – c. 1515 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Arnolt Schlick | c. 1450 – c. 1525 | German | |
| Loyset Compère | c. 1450 – 1518 | French | |
| Gilles Mureau | c. 1450 – 1512 | French | |
| Hans Judenkünig | c. 1450 – 1526 | German | Or Judenkönig |
| Heinrich Isaac | c. 1450 – 1517 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Josquin des Prez | c. 1450 – 1521 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Franchinus Gaffurius | 1451 – 1522 | Italian | |
| Jean Japart | fl. 1474–1481 | Franco-Flemish | Active in Italy |
| Edmund Sturton | fl. late 15th – early 16th century | English | Presumably identical with the Sturton who composed the six-part Ave Maria ancilla Trinitatis in the Lambeth Choirbook, he contributed a Gaude virgo mater Christi to the Eton Choirbook, the six voices of which cover a fifteen-note range |
| Robert de Févin | fl. late 15th–early 16th century | French | Brother of Antoine de Févin |
| Jacobus Barbireau | 1455 – 1491 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Robert Hacomplaynt | c. 1456 – 1528 | English | Has a single surviving work, a setting of Salve regina, in the Eton Choirbook; a work known as Haycomplayne's Gaude, dated 1529, has been lost |
| Jacob Obrecht | 1457/58 – 1505 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Jean Braconnier | died 1512, fl. from 1478 | French | Also known as Lourdault |
| Jean Mouton | c. 1459 – 1522 | French | |
| Paul Hofhaimer | 1459 – 1537 | German | |
| Jheronimus de Clibano | c. 1459 – 1503 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Pierre de La Rue | c. 1460 – 1518 | Franco-Flemish | Most famous composer of the Grande chapelle of the Habsburg court |
| Marbrianus de Orto | c. 1460 – 1529 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Johannes Prioris | c. 1460? – c. 1514 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Antoine Brumel | c. 1460 – 1512/1513 | French | |
| Juan de Anchieta | 1462 – 1523 | Spanish | |
| Francisco de la Torre | fl. 1483–1504 | Spanish | |
| Robert Fayrfax | 1464 – 1521 | English | |
| Sebastian Virdung | born c. 1465 | German | |
| Pedro de Escobar | c. 1465 – after 1535 | Portuguese | |
| Richard Davy | c. 1465 – c. 1507 | English | Major contributor to the Eton Choirbook |
| Giacomo Fogliano | 1468 – 10 April 1548 | Italian | |
| William Cornysh the younger | c. 1468 – 1523 | English | Probably the son of William Cornysh the elder |
| Juan del Encina | 1468 – c. 1529 | Spanish | |
| John Browne | fl. c. 1490 | English | Major contributor to the Eton Choirbook |
| Pierrequin de Thérache | c. 1470 – 1528 | French | Active in Lorraine |
| Robert Johnson | c. 1470 – after 1554 | Scottish | |
| Francisco de Peñalosa | c. 1470 – 1528 | Spanish | |
| Antoine de Févin | c. 1470 – 1511/12 | French | Brother of Robert de Févin |
| Bartolomeo Tromboncino | c. 1470 – c. 1535 | Italian | |
| Marchetto Cara | c. 1470 – 1525? | Italian | |
| Mathurin Forestier | c. 1470 – 1535 | French | |
| Antonius Divitis | c. 1470 – c. 1530 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Pierre Alamire | c. 1470 – 1536 | German | Active in the Low Countries |
| Richard Sampson | c. 1470 – 1554 | English | |
| Carpentras | c. 1470 – 1548 | French | |
| Johannes Ghiselin | fl. 1491–1507 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Bartolomeo degli Organi | 1474 – 1539 | Italian | |
| Vincenzo Capirola | 1474 – after 1548 | Italian | |
| Robert Cowper | c. 1474 – 1535/1540 | English | Represented by a work in the Gyffard partbooks and manuscript sources |
| Filippo de Lurano | c. 1475 – c. 1520 | Italian | |
| Philippe Verdelot | c. 1475 – before 1552 | French | Active in Italy |
| Nicolas Champion | c. 1475 – 1533 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Andreas De Silva | c. 1475/1480 – after 1520 | Spanish | |
| Thomas Ashewell | c. 1478 – after 1513 | English | |
| Antoine de Longueval | fl. 1498–1525 | French | |
| Andrea Antico da Montona | c. 1480 – after 1538 | Italian | |
| Hugh Kellyk | late 15th century – 16th century? | English | has two surviving pieces, a five-part Magnificat and a seven-part Gaude flore virginali, in the Eton Choirbook. |
| Thomas Stoltzer | c. 1480 – 1526 | German | |
| Noel Bauldeweyn | c. 1480 – after 1513 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Jean Richafort | c. 1480 – 1547 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Benedictus Appenzeller | 1480 to 1488 – after 1558 | Franco-Flemish | Served Mary, Queen of Hungary for most of his career |
| Jean l'Héritier | c. 1480 – after 1551 | French | |
| Francesco Spinacino | late 15th century – after 1507 | Italian | |
| Marco Dall'Aquila | c. 1480 – after 1538 | Italian | |
| Jacotin | died 1529 | Franco-Flemish | Also called Jacob Godebrye |
| Gregoire | fl. c. 1500–1504 | French | |
| Ninot le Petit | fl. c. 1500–1520 | French | |
| Gilles Reingot | fl. 1501–1530 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Mateo Flecha the Elder | 1481 – 1553 | Spanish | Or Mateu Fletxa el Vell |
| Hans Buchner | 1483 – 1538 | German | |
| Jacquet of Mantua | 1483 – 1559 | French | |
| Martin Luther | 1483 – 1546 | German | |
| Hans Kotter | c. 1485 – 1541 | German | |
| Mikołaj z Chrzanowa | 1485 – 1555 | Polish | |
| Clément Janequin | c. 1485 – 1558 | French | |
| Maistre Jhan | c. 1485 – 1538 | Italian | Early madrigalist, active at Ferrara |
| Hugh Aston | c. 1485 – 1558 | English | |
| Robert Carver | 1485 – 1570 | Scottish | Wrote a mass on L'Homme armé (the only known by a British composer) and a nineteen-part O bone jesu |
| Nicholas Ludford | c. 1485 – 1557 | English | |
| Pierre Moulu | c. 1485 – c. 1550 | Franco-Flemish | Active in France |
| Ludwig Senfl | c. 1486 – 1543 | Swiss | Active in Germany |
| John Redford | c. 1486 – 1547 | English | One of the main contributors to The Mulliner Book |
| Martin Agricola | 1486 – 1556 | German | |
| Thomas Appleby | c. 1488 – 1563 | English | |
| Georg Rhau | 1488 – 1548 | German | |
| Joan Ambrosio Dalza | fl. 1508 | Italian | |
| Gasparo Alberti | c. 1489 – 1560 | Italian | |
| Pierre Passereau | fl. 1509–1547 | Franco-Flemish | Popular composer of chansons in the 1530s |
| Franciscus Bossinensis | fl. 1509–1511 | Italian | |
| Arnold von Bruck | c. 1490 – 1554 | Franco-Flemish-German | |
| John Taverner | c. 1490 – 1545 | English | |
| Sebastian z Felsztyna | c. 1490 – 1543 | Polish | Also known as Sebastian Herburt |
| Fridolin Sicher | 1490 – 1546 | Swiss | |
| Sandrin | c. 1490 – c. 1560 | French | Also known as Pierre Regnault |
| Claudin de Sermisy | c. 1490 – 1562 | French | |
| Adrian Willaert | c. 1490 – 1562 | Franco-Flemish | founder of the Venetian School; active in Italy; influential as a teacher as well as a composer |
| Bernardo Pisano | 1490 – 1548 | Italian | Possibly the earliest composer of madrigals, though not in name |
| Sebastiano Festa | 1490/1495 – 1524 | Italian | Early composer of madrigals; possibly related to Costanzo Festa |
| Marco Antonio Cavazzoni | c. 1490 – c. 1560 | Italian | |
| Henry VIII of England | 1491 – 1547 | English | |
| Francesco de Layolle | 1492 – c. 1540 | Italian | In the employ of the Medici; music teacher to sculptor Benvenuto Cellini |
| Lupus Hellinck | c. 1494 – 1541 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Pierre Attaingnant | c. 1494 – 1551/1552 | French | Best known as a printer, especially of Parisian chansons |
| Leonhard Kleber | c. 1495 – 1556 | German | |
| Pierre Vermont | c. 1495 – between 1527–33 | French | |
| Lorenz Lemlin | c. 1495 – c. 1549 | German | |
| Ondřej Chrysoponus Jevíčský | 1495 – 1592 | Czech | |
| Leonhard Päminger | 1495 – 1567 | German | |
| Nicolas Gombert | c. 1495 – c. 1560 | Franco-Flemish | prominent contrapuntist of generation after Josquin; worked for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor |
| Costanzo Festa | c. 1495 – 1545 | Italian | Early composer of madrigals; member of Sistine Chapel choir |
| Johann Walter | 1496 – 1570 | German | |
| Francesco Canova da Milano | 1497 – 1543 | Italian | |
| Mattio Rampollini | 1497 – c. 1553 | Italian | |
| Hans Gerle | c. 1498 – 1570 | German | |
| Adrianus Petit Coclico | 1499 – after 1562 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Luis de Milán | c. 1500 – after 1561 | Spanish | |
| Juan Vásquez | c. 1500 – c. 1560 | Spanish | |
| Enríquez de Valderrábano | 1500 – after 1557 | Spanish | |
| Albert de Rippe | c. 1500 – 1551 | Italian | |
| Luis de Narváez | c. 1500 – between 1550–60 | Spanish | |
| Cristóbal de Morales | c. 1500 – 1553 | Spanish | |
| Jacques Buus | c. 1500 – 1565 | Franco-Flemish | Active at Venice, and assisted in the development of the instrumental ricercar |
| Bartolomeo Trosylho | c. 1500 – c. 1567 | Portuguese | |
| Philip van Wilder | 1500 – 1554 | Franco-Flemish | Active in England |
| Cornelius Canis | c. 1500 to 1510 – 1561 | Franco-Flemish | Music director for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, in the 1540s and 1550s, after Nicolas Gombert |
| Heliodoro de Paiva | c. 1500 – 1552 | Portuguese | |
| Nicolaus Cracoviensis | died c. 1550 | Polish | Also known as Mikołaj z Krakowa |
| Miguel de Fuenllana | 1500 – 1578 | Spanish | |
| Hilaire Penet | ? 1501 – 15?? | French | |
| Francesco Corteccia | 1502 – 1571 | Italian | |
| Damião de Góis | 1502 – 1574 | Portuguese | |
| Jacquet de Berchem | c. 1505 – before 1567 | Franco-Flemish | Early madrigalist |
| Bartolomé de Escobedo | c. 1505 – 1563 | Spanish | |
| Thomas Tallis | c. 1505 – 1585 | English | |
| Thomas Crecquillon | c. 1505 – 1557 | Franco-Flemish | A member of Charles V's imperial chapel |
| Christopher Tye | c. 1505 – ? 1572 | English | |
| Jean de Latre | c. 1505/1510 – 1569 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Ambrose Lupo | 1505 – 1591 | Italian | Also known as Ambrosio Lupo, de Almaliach and Lupus Italus; active in England |
| Johannes Lupi | c. 1506 – 1539 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Jan Simonides Montanus | 1507 – 1587 | Czech | Active in Kutná Hora |
| Bálint Bakfark | 1507 – 1576 | Hungarian | |
| Jacques Arcadelt | c. 1507 – 1568 | Franco-Flemish | Most famous of the early madrigalists |
| Paolo Aretino | 1508 – 1584 | Italian | Also known as Paolo Antonio del Bivi |
| Alfonso dalla Viola | c. 1508 – c. 1573 | Italian | Rore Also an instrumentalist; active in Ferrara |
| Hans Neusiedler | 1508 – 1563 | German | |
| Antonio Gardano | 1509 – 1569 | Italian | Music printer |
| Guillaume Morlaye | c. 1510 – c. 1558 | French | |
| Loys Bourgeois | c. 1510 – 1560 | French | |
| Claudio Veggio | c. 1510 – 15?? | Italian | |
| Alonso Mudarra | c. 1510 – 1580 | Spanish | |
| Tielman Susato | c. 1510/15 – after 1570 | Franco-Flemish | Also spelled Tylman; was also an influential music publisher |
| Luis Venegas de Henestrosa | c. 1510 – 1570 | Spanish | |
| Diego Ortiz | c. 1510 – c. 1570 | Spanish | |
| Antonio de Cabezón | c. 1510 – 1566 | Spanish | |
| Juan Bermudo | c. 1510 – c. 1565 | Spanish | |
| Jan Nasco | c. 1510 – 1561 | Franco-Flemish | Active in northern Italy |
| Pierre Certon | 1510/1520 – 1572 | French | |
| Pierre de Manchicourt | c. 1510 – 1564 | Franco-Flemish | Active in Spain |
| Vincenzo Ruffo | c. 1510 – 1587 | Italian | |
| Guillaume Le Heurteur | fl. 1530–1545 | French | |
| Sebestyén Tinódi | c. 1510 – 1556 | Hungarian | |
| John Merbecke | c. 1510 – c. 1585 | English | Produced the first musical setting for the English liturgy, publishing The Booke of Common Praier Noted, 1549; surviving works include a Missa Per arma iustitie; almost burnt as a heretic in 1543 |
| Dominique Phinot | c. 1510 – c. 1556 | Franco-Flemish | active in Italy and southern France |
| Jacob Clemens non Papa | c. 1510/1515 – c. 1555 | Franco-Flemish | Also known as Jacques Clément |
| Luigi Dentice | c. 1510? – 1566 | Italian | |
| Georg Forster | c. 1510 – 1568 | German | |
| Jean Courtois | fl. 1530–1545 | Franco-Flemish | |
| David Peebles | fl. c. 1530–1579 | Scottish | |
| Jean Maillard | c. 1510 – c. 1570 | French | |
| Ghiselin Danckerts | c. 1510 – after 1565 | Dutch | Active in Rome |
| Nicola Vicentino | c. 1511 – 1575/1576 | Italian | |
| Osbert Parsley | 1511 – 1585 | English | Also spelled Parsely; wrote a set of Lamentations for Holy Week |
| Jean Guyot de Châtelet | c. 1512 – 1588 | French | |
| Nicolas Payen | c. 1512 – c. 1559 | Franco-Flemish | Maestro di capilla for Philip II of Spain after Cornelius Canis |
| Domenico Ferrabosco | 1513 – 1574 | Italian | Madrigalist; father of Alfonso Ferrabosco |
| Hubert Naich | c. 1513 – c. 1546 | Franco-Flemish | active in Rome |
| Nicolao Dorati | c. 1513 – 1593 | Italian | Also a trombonist; active at Lucca |
| Claude Goudimel | c. 1514/1520 – 1572 | French | |
| John Sheppard | c. 1515 – 1559 | English | |
| Cypriano de Rore | c. 1515 – 1565 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Caspar Othmayr | 1515 – 1553 | German | |
| Josquin Baston | c. 1515 – c. 1576 | Dutch | |
| Giandomenico Martoretta | c. 1515 – 1560s | Italian | Calabrian madrigalist, active in Sicily |
| Tomás de Santa María | c. 1515 – 1570 | Spanish | |
| Giovanni Domenico da Nola | c. 1515 – 1592 | Italian | |
| Jheronimus Vinders | fl. 1525–1526 | Franco-Flemish | Active at Ghent; influenced by Josquin |
| Gioseffo Zarlino | 1517 – 1590 | Italian | |
| Hubert Waelrant | c. 1517 – 1595 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Francesco Viola | died 1568 | Italian | Maestro di cappella at Ferrara after |
| Francesco Cellavenia | fl. 1538–1563 | Italian | |
| Pierre Cadéac | fl. 1538–1556 | French | |
| Francisco Leontaritis | 1518 – 1572 | Greek | |
| Thoinot Arbeau | 1519 – 1595 | French | |
| Giulio Fiesco | born 1519?, fl. 1550–1570 | Italian | Madrigalist, active at Ferrara |
| Pierre Clereau | fl. 1539–1570 | French | |
| Giovanni Paolo Paladini | fl. c. 1540–1560 | Italian | |
| Edward Kyrton | fl. 1540 to 1550 | English | Miserere for keyboard in a British Museum MS |
| Hoste da Reggio | c. 1520 – 1569 | Italian | Madrigalist, active at Milan and Bergamo |
| John Black | c. 1520 – 1587 | English | |
| António Carreira | c. 1520 to 1530 – 1597 | Portuguese | |
| Firmin Lebel | early 16th century – 1573 | French | Active in Rome |
| Wacław z Szamotuł | c. 1520 – c. 1560 | Polish | |
| Severin Cornet | c. 1520 – 1582 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Adrian Le Roy | c. 1520 – 1598 | French | |
| Lambert Courtois | c. 1520 – after 1583 | French | Active at Cambrai |
| Didier Lupi Second | c. 1520 – after 1559 | French | |
| Sigmund Hemmel | c. 1520 – 1565 | German | |
| Francesco Portinaro | c. 1520 – after 1577 | Italian | Madrigalist, native of Padua |
| Vincenzo Galilei | c. 1520 – 1591 | Italian | Father of composer Michelagnolo Galilei and astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei |
| Thomas Caustun | c. 1520/1525 – 1569 | English | |
| Joan Brudieu | c. 1520 – 1591 | Spanish | |
| Perissone Cambio | c. 1520 – c. 1562 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Giovanni Animuccia | c. 1520 – 1571 | Italian | |
| Philippe de Monte | 1521 – 1603 | Franco-Flemish | Prolific composer of madrigals |
| Jan Blahoslav | 1523 – 1571 | Czech | |
| Girolamo Parabosco | c. 1524 – 1577 | Italian | Minor member of the Venetian School |
| Simon Boyleau | fl. c. 1544–after 1586 | French | |
| Jean de Bonmarché | c. 1525 – 1570 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina | c. 1525 – 1594 | Italian | |
| Baldassare Donato | 1525/1530 – 1603 | Italian | |
| Girolamo Cavazzoni | c. 1525 – after 1577 | Italian | |
| Claude Gervaise | 1525 – 1583 | French | |
| John Blitheman | c. 1525 – 1591 | English | |
| Richard Edwardes | 1525 – 1566 | English | |
| Rodrigo de Ceballos | c. 1525 – 1581 | Spanish | |
| Antonino Barges | fl. 1546–1565 | Franco-Flemish | Active in Italy |
| Ippolito Ciera | fl. 1546–1564 | Italian | Minor madrigalist, active at Treviso; follower of Willaert |
| Hermann Finck | 1527 – 1558 | German | |
| Annibale Padovano | 1527 – 1575 | Italian | |
| Thomas Whythorne | 1528 – 1595 | English | |
| Francisco Guerrero | 1528 – 1599 | Spanish | |
| Jiří Rychnovský | 1529 – 1616 | Czech | |
| William Mundy | 1529 – 1591 | English | Father of John Mundy; his output includes fine examples of both the large-scale Latin votive antiphon and the short English anthem, as well as Masses and Latin psalm settings; his style is vigorous and eloquent; represented in The Mulliner Book and in the Gyffard partbooks |
| Costanzo Porta | c. 1529 – 1601 | Italian | |
| Jacobus Vaet | c. 1529 – 1567 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Guillaume Costeley | c. 1530 – 1606 | French | |
| Thomas Preston | died c. 1563 | English | Composed 12 Offertory settings for keyboard, including the popular Felix namque, and an alternatim organ Mass for Easter, containing the only known sequence setting of the time; his keyboard writing is extremely virtuosic for the period |
| Elias Nikolaus Ammerbach | c. 1530 – 1597 | German | |
| Teodora Ginés | c. 1530 – 1598 | Cuban | |
| Vicente Lusitano | died after 1561, fl. 1550 | Portuguese | |
| Anthoine de Bertrand | c. 1530/1540 – c. 1581 | French | |
| Guillaume Boni | c. 1530 – 1594 | French | |
| Agostino Agostini | died 1569 | Italian | Father of Lodovico Agostini |
| Giorgio Mainerio | c. 1530/1540 – 1582 | Italian | |
| Fabritio Caroso | c. 1530 – after 1600 | Italian | |
| Claude Le Jeune | 1530 – 1600 | French | |
| Simon Bar Jona Madelka | c. 1530 – 1550-c. 1598 | Czech | |
| Nicolas de La Grotte | 1530 – c. 1600 | French | |
| Cornelis Symonszoon Boscoop | before 1531 – 1573 | Dutch | |
| Jacobus de Kerle | 1531/1532 – 1591 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Hernando Franco | 1532 – 1585 | Spanish | Active in Guatemala and Mexico |
| Orlande de Lassus | c. 1532 – 1594 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Andrea Gabrieli | 1532/1533 – 1585 | Italian | Uncle of Giovanni Gabrieli |
| Gianmatteo Asola | c. 1532 – 1609 | Italian | |
| Claudio Merulo | 1533 – 1604 | Italian | |
| Simon Moreau | fl. 1553–1558 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Francesco Soto de Langa | 1534 – 1619 | Italian | |
| Lodovico Agostini | 1534 – 1590 | Italian | Illegitimate son of Agostino Agostini |
| Pietro Taglia | fl. c. 1555–1565 | Italian | Madrigalist in Milan; follower of Cipriano de Rore |
| Robert Parsons | c. 1535 – 1572 | English | Latin music includes antiphons, Credo quod redemptor, Domine quis habitabit, Magnificat and Jam Christus astra; also three responds from the Office of the Dead, songs (including Pandolpho), In nomine settings for ensemble, and a galliard |
| Ippolito Chamaterò | 1535/1540 – after 1592 | Italian | Active in several cities in northern Italy; composed both sacred and secular music |
| Marc'Antonio Ingegneri | 1535/1536 – 1592 | Italian | Madrigalist and teacher of Monteverdi; active at Cremona |
| Pietro Vinci | c. 1535 – 1584 | Italian | Madrigalist; founder of the Sicilian school |
| Rocco Rodio | c. 1535 – after 1615 | Italian | |
| Cyprian Bazylik | c. 1535 – c. 1600 | Polish | |
| Annibale Stabile | c. 1535 – 1595 | Italian | |
| Mikołaj Gomółka | c. 1535 – c. 1609 | Polish | |
| Giaches de Wert | 1535 – 1596 | Franco-Flemish | Active in Italy |
| Cesare Negri | 1535 – 1605 | Italian | Dance master |
| Filippo Azzaiolo | fl. 1557–1569 | Italian | |
| Annibale Zoilo | c. 1537 – 1592 | Italian | |
| Jehan Chardavoine | 1537 – 1580 | French | |
| Paschal de l'Estocart | 1538/1539 – after 1584 | French | |
| Robert White | 1538 – 1574 | English | |
| Stefano Felis | c. 1538? – 1603 | Italian | |
| Johannes Matelart | before 1538 – 1607 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Nicolas Millot | fl. 1559–1590 or later | French | |
| Fabrizio Dentice | 1539? – 1581 | Italian | |
| Alessandro Striggio | c. 1540 – 1592 | Italian | Musician to the Medici; composer of the colossal 60-voice Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno |
| Stefano Rossetto | fl. 1560–1580 | Italian | Active in Italy and Germany |
| Nicholas Strogers | fl. 1560–1575 | English | Also spelled Strowger, Strowgers; three (probably four) keyboard pieces in a Christ Church, Oxford, manuscript, and a Fantasia in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (No. 89); an In nomine exists in a Bodleian manuscript |
| Giovanni Dragoni | c. 1540 – 1598 | Italian | |
| Jacob Regnart | 1540s – 1599 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Vincenzo Bellavere | c. 1540/1541 – 1587 | Italian | |
| Jhan Gero | fl. 1540–1555 | Franco-Flemish | Active in Venice, Italy |
| Marcin Leopolita | c. 1540 – c. 1584 | Polish | Also known as Marcin ze Lwowa |
| William Byrd | c. 1540 – 1623 | English | |
| Maddalena Casulana | c. 1540 – c. 1590 | Italian | |
| Clement Woodcock | 1540 – 1590 | English | Also spelled Woodcoke, Woodecock; his Browning my dear is one of several pieces of the period based on a popular tune, also known as The leaves be green |
| Giovanni Ferretti | c. 1540 – after 1609 | Italian | |
| Matthäus Waissel | c. 1540 – 1602 | German | |
| Francesco Rovigo | 1540/1541 – 1597 | Italian | Composed liturgical music and madrigals; active at Mantua and Graz |
| Hernando de Cabezón | 1541 – 1602 | Spanish | |
| Andreas Pevernage | 1542/3 – 1591 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Gioseffo Guami | 1542 – 1611 | Italian | Also known as Gioseffo da Lucca |
| Giovanni Maria Nanino | 1543/1544 – 1607 | Italian | Also spelled Nanini; brother of Giovanni Bernardino Nanino |
| Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder | 1543 – 1588 | Italian | Active in England |
| Ascanio Trombetti | 1544 – 1590 | Italian | |
| Antonio Valente | fl. 1565–1580 | Italian | |
| Jan Rijspoort | fl. late 16th century | Franco-Flemish | Flemish composer in the Spanish Netherlands |
| Anthony Holborne | c. 1545 – 1602 | English | |
| Gioseppe Caimo | c. 1545 – 1584 | Italian | Active at Milan; madrigalist and organist |
| John Johnson | c. 1545 – 1594 | English | |
| Ginés de Boluda | c. 1545 – c. 1606 | Spanish | |
| Jakub Polak | c. 1545 – 1605 | Polish | Also known as Jacob Polonais, Jakub Reys, Jacques le Polonois and Jacob de Reis; active in France |
| Luzzasco Luzzaschi | c. 1545 – 1607 | Italian | Late madrigalist at Ferrara |
| Bernardo Clavijo del Castillo | 1545 – 1626 | Spanish | Active in Palermo, Sicily and later in Salamanca; published motets in 1588 |
| Joachim Thibault de Courville | died 1581, fl. from c. 1567 | French | |
| Manuel Mendes | c. 1547 – 1605 | Portuguese | |
| Massimo Troiano | died after 1570, fl. 1567 to 1570 | Italian | |
| Balduin Hoyoul | 1547/8 – 1594 | Franco-Flemish | Active in Stuttgart and Munich |
| George de La Hèle | 1547 – 1586 | Franco-Flemish | Active in the Habsburg chapels of Spain and the Low Countries |
| Girolamo Dalla Casa | died 1601, fl. from 1568 | Italian | |
| Francesco Soriano | c. 1548 – 1621 | Italian | |
| Ginés Pérez de la Parra | c. 1548 – 1600 | Spanish | |
| Tomás Luis de Victoria | 1548 – 1611 | Spanish | |
| Giovanni de Macque | c. 1549 – 1614 | Franco-Flemish | Active in Italy |
| Eustache Du Caurroy | 1549 – 1609 | French | |
| Fabrice Caietain | fl. 1570–1578 | French | |
| Riccardo Rognoni | c. 1550 – c. 1620 | Italian | |
| Cesario Gussago | c. 1550 – 1612 | Italian | |
| Orazio Vecchi | 1550 – 1605 | Italian | |
| Pomponio Nenna | c. 1550 – 1613 | Italian | |
| Ippolito Baccusi | c. 1550 – 1609 | Italian | |
| Emilio de' Cavalieri | c. 1550 – 1602 | Italian | |
| Francis Cutting | 1550 – 1595/1596 | English | |
| Sebastián Raval | c. 1550 – 1604 | Spanish | |
| David Sacerdote | 1550 – 1625 | Italian | Earliest known Jewish composer of polyphonic music, active at Mantua |
| Giovanni Battista Conforti | fl. c. 1550–1570 | Italian | |
| Charles Tessier | c. 1550 – after 1604 | French | Active in England and Germany |
| Ambrosio Cotes | c. 1550 – 1603 | Spanish | |
| Jan Trojan Turnovský | c. 1550 – 1606 | Czech | |
| Vicente Espinel | 1550 – 1624 | Spanish | |
| Tomasz Szadek | c. 1550 – 1612 | Polish | |
| Pedro de Cristo | c. 1550 – 1618 | Portuguese | |
| Jacobus Gallus | 1550 – 1591 | Slovenian | Also known as Jacob Handl; active in Moravia and Bohemia |
| Pavel Spongopaeus Jistebnický | c. 1550 – 1619 | Czech | |
| Krzysztof Klabon | c. 1550 – 1616 | Polish | |
| Benedetto Pallavicino | c. 1551 – 1601 | Italian | |
| Giulio Caccini | 1551 – 1618 | Italian | One of the founders of opera |
| Sebastián de Vivanco | c. 1551 – 1622 | Spanish | |
| Girolamo Conversi | fl. c. 1572–1575 | Italian | |
| Girolamo Belli | 1552 – c. 1620 | Italian | |
| Leonhard Lechner | c. 1553 – 1606 | German | |
| Johannes Eccard | 1553 – 1611 | German | |
| Edmund Hooper | c. 1553 – 1621 | English | Also spelled Hoop; contributed to Michael East's psalter and William Leighton's Teares, and wrote some intensely expressive anthems; has two keyboard pieces in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book |
| William Inglott | c. 1553/54 – 1621 | English | Also spelled Inglott; two keyboard pieces in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book; there is also an untitled keyboard piece by 'Englitt' in a MS in the British Museum |
| Luca Marenzio | c. 1553 – 1599 | Italian | |
| Girolamo Diruta | c. 1554 – after 1610 | Italian | |
| Cosimo Bottegari | 1554 – 1620 | Italian | |
| Rinaldo del Mel | c. 1554 – c. 1598 | Franco-Flemish | Active in Italy |
| Giovanni Gabrieli | 1554/1557 – 1612 | Italian | Nephew of Andrea Gabrieli |
| Paolo Bellasio | 1554 – 1594 | Italian | |
| Emmanuel Adriaenssen | 1554 – 1604 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi | c. 1554 – 1609 | Italian | |
| Elway Bevin | c. 1554 – 1638 | English | Possibly Welsh |
| Alonso Lobo | c. 1555 – 1617 | Spanish | |
| Manuel Rodrigues Coelho | c. 1555 – c. 1635 | Portuguese | |
| Paolo Quagliati | 1555 – 1628 | Italian | |
| John Mundy | c. 1555 – 1630 | English | Son of William Mundy; published a volume of Songs and Psalms in 1594, contributed to the Triumphs of Oriana, composed English and Latin sacred music, and is represented with five pieces in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book; his Goe from my window variations are a particularly fine example of the genre |
| Johannes Nucius | c. 1556 – 1620 | German | |
| Wojciech Długoraj | c. 1557 – after 1619 | Polish | |
| Carolus Luython | 1557 – 1620 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Jacques Mauduit | 1557 – 1627 | French | |
| Thomas Morley | 1557/1558 – 1603 | English | |
| Cornelis Schuyt | 1557 – 1616 | Dutch | |
| Giovanni Croce | c. 1557 – 1609 | Italian | |
| Alfonso Fontanelli | 1557 – 1622 | Italian | |
| Nathaniel Giles | c. 1558 – 1634 | English | |
| Richard Carlton | 1558 – 1638 | English | |
| Scipione Stella | 1558/1559 – 1622 | Italian | |
| Ferdinando Richardson | 1558 – 1618 | English | Also known as Sir Ferdinando Heybourne; there survives a keyboard Pavan and Galliard, each with variation, in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book |
| Philippus Schoendorff | 1558 – 1617 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Giovanni Bassano | c. 1558 – 1617 | Italian | |
| Leone Leoni | c. 1560 – 1627 | Italian | Maestro di cappella at Vicenza |
| Dario Castello | c. 1560 – c. 1658 | Italian | |
| August Nörmiger | c. 1560 – 1613 | German | |
| Thomas Robinson | 1560 – 1610 | English | |
| Peter Philips | 1560 – 1628 | English | Exiled to Flanders |
| Felice Anerio | c. 1560 – 1614 | Italian | Brother of Giovanni Francesco Anerio |
| Diomedes Cato | c. 1560 – after 1618 | Polish-Lithuanian-Italian | Worked all his life in Poland |
| William Cobbold | 1560 – 1639 | English | Organist at Norwich Cathedral (from 1594 to 1608); a single piece by him exists in Ravenscroft's 1621 collection |
| Juan Esquivel Barahona | c. 1560 – after 1625 | Spanish | |
| William Brade | 1560 – 1630 | English | Active in Denmark and Germany |
| Richard Allison | c. 1560/1570 – before 1610 | English | |
| Giovanni Bernardino Nanino | 1560 – 1623 | Italian | Brother of Giovanni Maria Nanino |
| Scipione Dentice | 1560 – 1635 | Italian | |
| Ruggiero Giovannelli | c. 1560 – 1625 | Italian | |
| Hieronymus Praetorius | 1560 – 1629 | German | |
| Carlo Gesualdo | 1560 – 1613 | Italian | |
| Antonio Il Verso | c. 1560 – 1621 | Italian | |
| Lodovico Grossi da Viadana | 1560 – 1627 | Italian | |
| Giulio Belli | c. 1560 – c. 1621 | Italian | |
| Nicholas Dáll Pierce | c. 1561 – 1653 | Irish | |
| Philippe Rogier | c. 1561 – 1596 | Franco-Flemish | Active in Spain |
| Jacopo Peri | 1561 – 1633 | Italian | |
| Francesco Usper | c. 1561 – 1641 | Italian | Also known as Spongia |
| Elias Mertel | c. 1561 – 1626 | German | |
| Sebastián Aguilera de Heredia | 1561 – 1627 | Spanish | |
| John Bull | 1562 – 1628 | English | Exiled to the Netherlands |
| Jean Titelouze | 1562/1563 – 1633 | French | |
| Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck | 1562 – 1621 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Andreas Raselius | c. 1563 – 1602 | German | |
| Cornelis Verdonck | 1563 – 1625 | Franco-Flemish | |
| John Dowland | 1563 – 1626 | English | |
| Giles Farnaby | c. 1563 – 1640 | English | |
| John Milton | c. 1563 – 1647 | English | Father of the poet John Milton; composed madrigals, one of which was printed in The Triumphs of Oriana, as well as anthems, Psalm settings, a motet, and some consort music including a six-part In nomine |
| Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic | 1564 – 1621 | Czech | |
| Hans Leo Hassler | 1564 – 1612 | German | |
| John Danyel | 1564 – after 1625 | English | Also spelled Danyell; brother of the poet Samuel Daniel (spellings of the names of the two brothers differ) |
| Giulio Cesare Martinengo | 1564 or 1568 – 1613 | Italian | |
| Simone Molinaro | 1565 – 1615 | Italian | |
| William Leighton | c. 1565 – 1622 | English | |
| John Hilton | 1565 – 1609 | English | Probably father of John Hilton 'the younger' (1599–1657) |
| Gregor Aichinger | 1565 – 1628 | German | |
| Michael Cavendish | c. 1565 – 1628 | English | |
| John Farmer | c. 1565 – 1605 | English | |
| Francis Pilkington | c. 1565 – 1638 | English | Lutenist |
| Paola Massarenghi | born 1565, fl. 1585 | Italian | |
| George Kirbye | c. 1565 – 1634 | English | |
| Erasmo Marotta | 1565 – 1641 | Italian | |
| Ascanio Mayone | 1565 – 1627 | Italian | |
| Duarte Lobo | c. 1565 – 1647 | Portuguese | |
| Alessandro Piccinini | 1566 – 1638 | Italian | |
| Gaspar Fernandes | 1566 – 1629 | Portuguese | |
| Manuel Cardoso | 1566 – 1650 | Portuguese | |
| Julien Perrichon | 1566 – c. 1600 | French | Also a lutenist |
| Lucia Quinciani | born c. 1566, fl. 1611 | Italian | |
| Jean-Baptiste Besard | 1567 – 1625 | Burgundian | |
| Nicolas Formé | 1567 – 1638 | French | |
| Christoph Demantius | 1567 – 1643 | German | |
| Lorenzo Allegri | 1567 – 1648 | Italian | |
| Joachim van den Hove | c. 1567 – 1620 | Dutch | |
| Girolamo Giacobbi | 1567 – 1629 | Italian | |
| Giovanni Francesco Anerio | c. 1567 – buried 1630 | Italian | Brother of Felice Anerio |
| Claudio Monteverdi | 1567 – 1643 | Italian | |
| Thomas Campion | 1567 – 1620 | English | Also spelled Campian; the only English composer to experiment with musique mesurée, and the first to imitate the Florentine monodists |
| Christian Erbach | 1568 – 1635 | German | |
| Bartolomeo Barbarino | 1568 – 1617 or later | Italian | |
| Adriano Banchieri | 1568 – 1634 | Italian | |
| Joan Baptista Comes | 1568 – 1643 | Spanish | |
| Philip Rosseter | c. 1568 – 1623 | English | |
| Tobias Hume | c. 1569 – 1645 | English | Responsible for the earliest known use of col legno in Western music |
| William Tisdale | born c. 1570 | English | |
| Orazio Bassani | before 1570 – 1615 | Italian | |
| Peeter Cornet | 1570/1580 – 1633 | Franco-Flemish | |
| Joan Pau Pujol | 1570 – 1626 | Spanish | |
| Melchior Borchgrevinck | c. 1570 – 1632 | Dutch-Danish | |
| John Cooper | c. 1570 – 1626 | English | |
| Salamone Rossi | 1570 – 1630 | Italian | |
| Claudia Sessa | c. 1570 – between 1613–19 | Italian | |
| Pierre Guédron | 1570 – 1620 | French | |
| Giovanni Paolo Cima | 1570 – 1622 | Italian | |
| Paul Peuerl | 1570 – 1625 | German | |
| Thomas Bateson | c. 1570 – 1630 | English | |
| Giovanni Picchi | 1571 – 1643 | Italian | |
| Thomas Lupo | 1571 – 1627 | English | Also known as Thomas Lupo The Elder; composer of several works, but solid attribution of many works to him or another of his relatives is difficult |
| John Ward | 1571 – 1638 | English | |
| Michael Praetorius | c. 1571 – 1621 | German | |
| Filipe de Magalhães | 1571 – 1652 | Portuguese | |
| Giovanni Battista Fontana | 1571 – 1630 | Italian | |
| Stefano Venturi del Nibbio | fl. 1592–1600 | Italian | Active in Florence. Collaborated with Giulio Caccini on the early opera Il rapimento di Cefalo |
| Edward Johnson | 1572 – 1601 | English | Contributed to Michael East's psalter and The Triumphs of Oriana and more |
| Moritz von Hessen-Kassel | 1572 – 1632 | German | |
| Daniel Bacheler | 1572 – 1618 | English | |
| Thomas Tomkins | 1572 – 1656 | English | |
| Johannes Vodnianus Campanus | 1572 – 1622 | Czech | |
| Erasmus Widmann | 1572 – 1634 | German | |
| Robert Ballard | | French | |
| Martin Peerson | 1572 – 1650 | English | May be the same person as Martin Pearson; four keyboard pieces in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book; many works also published |
| Ellis Gibbons | 1573 – 1603 | English | Brother of Orlando Gibbons |
| Cesarina Ricci | born c. 1573, fl. 1597 | Italian | |
| Géry de Ghersem | 1573/1575 – 1630 | Franco-Flemish | Active in Spain and the Netherlands |
| Truid Aagesen | fl. 1593–1625 | Danish | |
| Andreas Hakenberger | 1574 – 1627 | German | |
| John Wilbye | 1574 – 1638 | English | |
| Claudio Pari | 1574 – after 1619 | Franco-Flemish | Active in Italy |
| Francesco Rasi | 1574 – 1621 | Italian | |
| Vittoria Aleotti | c. 1575 – after 1620 | Italian | Believed to be the same person as Raffaella Aleotti (c. 1570 – after 1646) |
| John Bennet | c. 1575 – after 1614 | English | |
| Estêvão de Brito | 1575 – 1641 | Portuguese | |
| Giovanni Maria Trabaci | 1575 – 1647 | Italian | |
| John Coprario | c. 1575 – 1626 | English | |
| Daniel Farrant | 1575 – 1671 | English | |
| William Simmes | c. 1575 – c. 1625 | English | |
| Estêvão Lopes Morago | c. 1575 – c. 1630 | Portuguese | |
| Ennemond Gaultier | 1575 – 1651 | French | |
| Michelagnolo Galilei | 1575 – 1631 | Italian | Active in Bavaria and Poland; son of composer Vincenzo Galilei; brother of astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei |
| Giovanni Priuli | 1575 – 1626 | Italian | |
| Ignazio Donati | 1575 – 1638 | Italian | |
| Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger | c. 1575 – 1628 | English | Illegitimate son of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder |
| Thomas Weelkes | 1576 – 1623 | English | |
| John Maynard | c. 1577 – between 1614–33 | English | Primarily known from one published work, The XIII Wonders of the World, published in London in 1611; It contains twelve songs, six duets for lute and viol, and seven pieces for lyra viol with optional bass viol |
| Sulpitia Cesis | born 1577, fl. 1619 | Italian | |
| Antonio Brunelli | 1577 – 1630 | Italian | |
| Stefano Bernardi | 1577 – 1637 | Italian | |
| Robert Jones | 1577 – 1617 | English | Published five volumes of simple and melodious lute songs, and one of madrigals |
| Agostino Agazzari | 1578 – 1640 | Italian | |
| John Amner | 1579 – 1641 | English | |
| Melchior Franck | 1579 – 1639 | German | |
| John Holmes | died 1629, fl. from 1599 | English | |
| Ruaidrí Dáll Ó Catháin | c. 1580 – c. 1653 | Irish | |
| Benjamin Cosyn | c. 1580 – c. 1653 | English | Also spelled Cosin, Cosens; compiler of the manuscript Cosyn's Virginal Book |
| Hans Nielsen | 1580 – 1626 | Danish | |
| Cormac Mac Diarmata | died 1618 | Irish | |
| Richard Dering | c. 1580 – 1630 | English | |
| Thomas Ford | c. 1580 – 1648 | English | |
| Johann Stobäus | 1580 – 1646 | German | |
| Thomas Vautor | born c. 1580/90 | English | Published a volume of five- and six-part madrigals in 1619; his best-known piece is Sweet Suffolk Owl |
| John Lugg | 1580 – 1647/1655 | English | There survive nine plainsong settings, one hexachord, and three voluntaries for double organ in a Christ Church autograph MS, among others |
| Vincenzo Ugolini | 1580 – 1638 | Italian | |
| Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger | 1580 – 1651 | German | |
| Adreana Basile | c. 1580 – c. 1640 | Italian | |
| Michael East | c. 1580 – 1648 | English | Probably the son of Thomas East |
| Caterina Assandra | 1580 – after 1618 | Italian | |
| Henry Youll | born c. 1580/90 | English | His Canzonets to Three Voyces, although clearly the work of an amateur, have charm and individuality |
| Bellerofonte Castaldi | 1581 – 1649 | Italian | |
| Johann Staden | 1581 – 1634 | German | |
| Johannes Jeep | 1581/1582 – 1644 | German | |
| Sigismondo d'India | c. 1582 – 1629 | Italian | |
| Gregorio Allegri | 1582 – 1652 | Italian | Brother of Domenico Allegri |
| Thomas Ravenscroft | c. 1582 – c. 1633 | English | Published a book of psalms amongst others |
| Severo Bonini | 1582 – 1663 | Italian | |
| Giovanni Valentini | 1582 – 1649 | Italian | |
| Marco da Gagliano | 1582 – 1643 | Italian | |
| Thomas Simpson | 1582 – c. 1628 | English | Active in Denmark |
| Robert Johnson | c. 1583 – 1633 | English | Active in England and Scotland |
| Girolamo Frescobaldi | 1583 – 1643 | Italian | |
| Orlando Gibbons | 1583 – 1625 | English | |
| Johann Daniel Mylius | c. 1583 – 1642 | German | |
| Mogens Pedersøn | c. 1583 – 1623 | Danish | |
| Paolo Agostino | 1583 – 1629 | Italian | |
| Nicolas Vallet | 1583 – 1642 | Dutch | |
| Antonio Cifra | 1584 – 1629 | Italian | |
| Daniel Friderici | 1584 – 1638 | German | |
| Michael Altenburg | 1584 – 1640 | German | |
| Nicolò Corradini | 1585 – 1646 | Italian | |
| Domenico Allegri | 1585 – 1629 | Italian | Brother of Gregorio Allegri |
| Francesco Rognoni | c. 1585 – after 1626 | Italian | |
| Johann Grabbe | 1585 – 1655 | German | |
| Andrea Falconieri | 1585 – 1656 | Italian | |
| Peter Hasse | 1585 – 1640 | German | |
| Heinrich Schütz | 1585 – 1672 | German | |
| Alessandro Grandi | 1586 – 1630 | Italian | |
| Paul Siefert | 1586 – 1666 | German | |
| Claudio Saracini | 1586 – 1630 | Italian | |
| Johann Hermann Schein | 1586 – 1630 | German | |
| Jacob Praetorius | 1586 – 1651 | German | |
| Antoine Boësset | 1586 – 1643 | French | |
| Stefano Landi | 1586 – 1643 | Italian | |
| Guillaume Bouzignac | 1587 – 1643 | French | |
| John Adson | 1587 – 1640 | English | |
| Samuel Scheidt | 1587 – 1654 | German | |
| Ivan Lukačić | 1587 – 1648 | Croatian | |
| Nicholas Lanier | 1588 – 1666 | English | |
| Johann Andreas Herbst | 1588 – 1666 | French | |
| Walter Porter | c. 1588 – 1659 | English | Madrigalist; publications include instrumental toccatas, sinfonias and ritornellos as well as vocal pieces |
| Giovanni Battista Riccio | fl. 1609-after 1621 | Italian | |
| Mikołaj Zieleński | fl. 1611 | Polish | |
| George Handford | fl. c. 1609 | English | Book of Ayresin MS bears a dedication to Prince Henry dated 1609, but was never published |
| John Bartlet | fl. 1606 to 1610 | English | |
| Giovanni Battista Grillo | died 1622 | Italian | |
| Marcantonio Negri | died 1624 | Italian | |
| Johannes Thesselius | 1590 – 1643 | German | |
| Manuel Machado | 1590 – 1646 | Portuguese | |
| Hans Brachrogge | c. 590 – 1638 | Danish | |
| Robert Ramsey | 1590s – 1644 | English | Composed mythological and biblical dialogues, such as Dives and Abraham, Saul and the Witch of Endor, and Orpheus and Pluto |
| Andreas Chyliński | 1590 – after 1635 | Polish | |
| Adam Jarzębski | 1590 – 1648 | Polish | |
| Johann Schop | 1590 – 1667 | German | |
| Jacob van Eyck | 1590 – 1657 | Dutch | |
| Richard Mico | 1590 – 1661 | English | Two 18th-century arrangements for viols of keyboard pavans in a MS in the British Museum survive |
| Robert Dowland | 1591 – 1641 | English | Son of John Dowland; only three works are definitely ascribed to him: two lute pieces in the 'Varietie of Lute Lessons' and one in the 'Margaret Board Lutebook' |
| Jacques Gaultier | 1592 – 1652 | French | |
| John Jenkins | 1592 – 1678 | English | |
| Cornelis Thymenszoon Padbrué | c. 1592 – 1670 | Dutch | |
| Melchior Schildt | 1592/1593 – 1667 | German | |
| Gottfried Scheidt | 1593 – 1661 | German | |
| Johann Ulrich Steigleder | 1593 – 1635 | German | |
| Henry Lawes | 1595 – 1662 | English | |
| John Wilson | 1595 – 1674 | English | |
| Heinrich Scheidemann | 1595 – 1663 | German | |
| Constantijn Huygens | 1596 – 1687 | Dutch | |
| Mathieu Gascongne | fl. 1517–1518 | French | |
| Charles Racquet | 1597 – 1664 | French | |
| Andreas Düben | 1597 – 1662 | Swedish | |
| Johann Crüger | 1598 – 1662 | German | |
| Thomas Selle | 1599 – 1663 | German | |
| John Hilton the younger | 1599 – 1657 | English | |
| Pierre Gaultier | 1599 – 1681 | French | |
| Étienne Moulinié | 1599 – 1676 | French | |
| Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic | c. 1600 – 1676 | Czech | |
| Delphin Strungk | 1600/1601 – 1694 | German | |
| Richard Nicholson | died 1639 | English | Composed English and Latin church music, and consort songs, in humorous rather than melancholy vein, and contributed to The Triumphs of Oriana |
| Simon Ives | 1600 – 1662 | English | |
| Manuel Correia | 1600 – 1653 | Portuguese | |
| Christopher Simpson | 1602/1606 – 1669 | English | |
| William Lawes | 1602 – 1645 | English | |
| John IV of Portugal | 1603 – 1656 | Portuguese | |
| Thomas Greaves | fl. 1604 | English | |
| William Child | 1606 – 1697 | English | |
| Juan Arañés | died 1649 | Spanish | |
| William Corkine | fl. 1610–1617 | English | |
| William Young | 1610 – 1662 | English | |
| Bartłomiej Pękiel | fl. 1633 – c. 1670 | Polish | |
| George Jeffreys | 1610 – 1685 | English | |
| Mlle Bocquet | early 17th century – after 1660 | French | |