Alonso Mudarra
Alonso Mudarra( c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar- shaped string instrument.
He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.
Josquin des Prez
Josquin des Prez (– 27 August 1521), often referred to simply as Josquin, was a French composer of the Renaissance.
His original name is sometimes given as Josquin Lebloitte and his later name is given under a wide variety of spellings in French, Italian, and Latin, including and .
His motet "Illibata Dei virgo nutrix" includes an acrostic of his name, where he spelled it "Josquin des Prez".
He was the most famous European composer between Guillaume Dufay and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and is usually considered to be the central figure of the Franco-Flemish School.
Josquin is widely considered by music scholars to be the first master of the high Renaissance style of polyphonic vocal music that was emerging during his lifetime.
During the 16th century, Josquin gradually acquired the reputation as the greatest composer of the age, his mastery of technique and expression universally imitated and admired.
Writers as diverse as Baldassare Castiglione and Martin Luther wrote about his reputation and fame, with Luther declaring that "he is the master of the notes.
They must do as he wills; as for the other composers, they have to do as the notes will.
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Theorists such as Heinrich Glarean and Gioseffo Zarlino held his style as that best representing perfection.
He was so admired that many anonymous compositions were attributed to him by copyists, probably to increase their sales.
More than 370 works are attributed to him; it was only after the advent of modern analytical scholarship that some of these attributions were challenged, and revealed as mistaken, on the basis of stylistic features and manuscript evidence.
Yet in spite of Josquin's colossal reputation, which endured until the beginning of the Baroque era and was revived in the 20th century, his biography is shadowy, and virtually nothing is known about his personality.
The only surviving work which may be in his own hand is a graffito on the wall of the Sistine Chapel, and only one contemporary mention of his character is known, in a letter to Duke Ercole I of Ferrara.
The lives of dozens of less revered Renaissance composers are better documented than that of Josquin.
Josquin wrote both sacred and secular music, and in all of the significant vocal forms of the age, including masses, motets, chansons and frottole.
During the 16th century, he was praised for both his supreme melodic gift and his use of ingenious technical devices.
In modern times, scholars have attempted to ascertain the basic details of his biography, and have tried to define the key characteristics of his style to correct misattributions, a task that has proved difficult, as Josquin liked to solve compositional problems in different ways in successive compositions—sometimes he wrote in an austere style devoid of ornamentation, and at other times he wrote music requiring considerable virtuosity.
Heinrich Glarean wrote in 1547 that Josquin was not only a "magnificent virtuoso" (the Latin can be translated also as "show-off")
but capable of being a "mocker", using satire effectively.
While the focus of scholarship in recent years has been to remove music from the "Josquin canon" (including some of his most famous pieces) and to reattribute it to his contemporaries, the remaining music represents some of the most famous and enduring of the Renaissance.
Barry Fagan
Barry Fagan( born c. 1955) is a former American football player and coach.
He was the head football coach at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan from 1997 to 1999.
Fagan was the first head football coach at Ave Maria University in Ave Maria, Florida, serving one season in 2011.
Alexandru Cristea
Alexandru Cristea( 1890 – 1942) was the composer of the music for" Limba Noastră", current national anthem of Moldova.
Petrus de Domarto
Petrus de Domarto( fl. c. 1445– 1455) was a Franco- Flemish composer of the Renaissance.
He was a contemporary and probable acquaintance of Ockeghem, and was the composer of at least one of the first unified mass cycles to be written in continental Europe.
Ave Maria ... Virgo serena
"Ave Maria ...
Virgo serena" is a motet composed by Josquin des Prez.
It is regarded as Josquin's most famous motet and one of the most famous pieces of the 15th century.
The piece rose to extreme popularity in the 16th century, even appearing at the head of the first volume of motets ever printed.
Its revolutionary open style featuring early imitative counterpoint and two-voice parts has added to its acclaim as one of the most influential compositions of its time.
Alexander Courage
Alexander Mair" Sandy" Courage Jr.( December 10, 1919
May 15, 2008) was an American orchestrator, arranger, and composer of music, primarily for television and film.
He is best known as the composer of the theme music for the original" Star Trek" series.
Percy Kahn
Percival (Percy) Benedict Kahn (9 December 18802 May 1966) was an English composer and pianist.
His most noted composition was the song "Ave Maria" with accompaniment by piano, and violin obbligato.
Kahn was born in London in 1880.
He was a boy soprano, and at the age of 15 won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, where he studied for four years under the organist and composer Walter Parratt.
He also studied piano with Marmaduke Barton, and theory with Charles Wood and Walford Davies.
Kahn accompanied some of the great musicians of the day, including violinists Mischa Elman and Fritz Kreisler; sopranos Dame Nellie Melba, Luisa Tetrazzini, Florence Austral and Oda Slobodskaya, tenors Enrico Caruso, John McCormack, Richard Tauber, Joseph Hislop and Beniamino Gigli; and baritones Titta Ruffo and John Brownlee.
Of all these artists, he was most closely associated with Richard Tauber, whom he accompanied regularly for 14 years, from 1933 up until Tauber's death.
Tauber recorded four of his songs for Parlophone, and sang others in broadcasts.
His "Ave Maria" was recorded in 1913 by Enrico Caruso and Mischa Elman, with the composer at the piano.
Percy Kahn was married to the contralto Olive Kavann, with whom he also recorded.
Walter Robinson (composer)
Walter Robinson is an African American composer of the late 20th century.
He is most notable for his 1977 song" Harriet Tubman", which has been recorded by folk musicians such as Holly Near, John McCutcheon, and others.
He is also the composer of several operas.
Ave Maria (Beyoncé song)
" Ave Maria" is a song by American singer Beyoncé from her third studio album" I Am ... Sasha Fierce"( 2008).
Amanda Ghost, Ian Dench and Makeba Riddick wrote the song in collaboration with its producers Knowles and production duo Stargate.
As stated by Ghost," Ave Maria" was inspired by Knowles and her own respective marriages.
The song is a re-write of Franz Schubert's" Ave Maria".
It is instrumentally complete with a piano and strings.
Throughout the pop- R&B ballad, Knowles sings in a lower register with an operatic soprano.
Lyrically, it speaks about being surrounded by friends but still feeling alone.
Critical reception towards the song was mixed.
Many contemporary critics praised its balladry and Knowles vocals while others dubbed it as merely a normal take on the original.
Following the release of" I Am ...
Sasha Fierce Ave Maria" debuted on the UK Singles Chart at number 150 on November 29, 2008, based on downloads alone.
The song was a part Knowles' set list during her I Am ... Tour( 2009 – 10) where she sang it dressed in a wedding dress and veil.
" Ave Maria" was subsequently included on her live album," I Am... World Tour"( 2010).
Knowles also performed the song as a tribute to Michael Jackson during the 2009 BET Awards.

Question: What nationality is the composer of song Ave Maria ... Virgo Serena?
Answer: French