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Composers whose names are italicised have no known surviving music, although in some cases texts to songs attributed to them survive without music.

Early Medieval Composers (born before 1150)

Name	Born	Died	Nationality
Yared Yared Saint Yared was a semi-legendary Ethiopian musician credited with inventing the sacred music tradition of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Ethiopia's system of musical notation...	505	571	Ethiopian
Khosrovidukht	8th century	8th century	Armenian
Sahakduxt Sahakduxt Sahakduxt was an Armenian composer of hymns, poet, and pedagogue who lived in the 8th century. An ascetic, she lived in a cave in the Garni Valley, near present-day Yerevan; there she produced ecclesiastical poems as well as liturgical chants. Of these, the only one to survive is Srbuhi Mariam ,...	8th century	8th century	Armenian
Kassia Kassia Kassia was a Byzantine abbess, poet, composer, and hymnographer. She is one of the first medieval composers whose scores are both extant and able to be interpreted by modern scholars and musicians...	805/810	867	Byzantine
Notker Balbulus (Notker the Stammerer)	c. 840	912	Frankish?
Hucbald Hucbald Hucbald was a Frankish music theorist, composer, teacher, writer, hagiographer, and Benedictine monk...	840/850	930	Frankish
Tuotilo Tuotilo Saint Tuotilo was a medieval monk and composer. Born in Ireland, he is said to have been a large and powerfully built man. He was educated at the Abbey of St. Gall and remained to become a monk there. He was the friend of Notker of St. Gall, with whom he studied music under Moengal... (Tutilo of Saint Gall)	c. 850	915	Irish
Odo of Cluny Odo of Cluny Saint Odo of Cluny , a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, was the second abbot of Cluny. He enacted various reforms in the Cluniac monastery system of France and Italy....	c. 878	942	French
Herigerus (Heriger of Lobbes)	c. 925?	1007	Frankish?
Odo of Arezzo Odo of Arezzo Odo of Arezzo or Abbot Oddo was a Medieval composer and theorist who worked in Arezzo. Little is known about his life, except that he was an Abbot in Arezzo, working under Bishop Donatus of Arezzo...	10th century	11th century	Italian
Adémar de Chabannes Adémar de Chabannes Adémar de Chabannes was an eleventh-century French monk, a historian who wrote the first annals to have been compiled in Aquitaine since Late Antiquity, a musical composer and a successful literary forger....	c. 988	1034	French
Guido da Arezzo Guido of Arezzo Guido of Arezzo or Guido Aretinus or Guido da Arezzo or Guido Monaco or Guido d'Arezzo was a music theorist of the Medieval era... (Guido of Arezzo; Guido Aretinus)	c. 991/992	after 1033	Italian
Wipo Wipo of Burgundy Wipo of Burgundy priest and writer. He was chaplain to the Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II, whose biography he wrote in chronicle form, Gesta Chuonradi II imperatoris.... (Wigbert; Wippo of Burgundy)	c. 995	c. 1048	Frankish? (Arles/ Burgundy)
Hermann of Reichenau Hermann of Reichenau Hermann of Reichenau , also called Hermannus Contractus or Hermannus Augiensis or Herman the Cripple, was an 11th century scholar, composer, music theorist, mathematician, and astronomer. He composed the Marian prayer Alma Redemptoris Mater...	1013	1054	German
Godric Godric of Finchale Saint Godric of Finchale was an English hermit, merchant and popular medieval saint, although he was never formally canonized. He was born in Walpole in Norfolk and died in Finchale in County Durham, England....	c. 1065	1170	English
Adam of Saint Victor	fl. c. 1098	1146	French
William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (Guilhem de Peitieus; Guillaume d'Aquitaine)	1071	1126	Occitan
Petrus Abaelardus Peter Abelard Peter Abelard was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician. The story of his affair with and love for Héloïse has become legendary... (Peter Abelard)	1079	1142	French
Goslenus Jocelin of Soissons Jocelin of Soissons was a French theologian, a philosophical opponent of Abelard. He became bishop of Soissons, and is known also as a composer , with two pieces in the Codex Calixtinus... (Jocelin of Soissons)	fl. 1126	1152	French
Hildegard of Bingen Hildegard of Bingen Blessed Hildegard of Bingen , also known as Saint Hildegard, and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath. Elected a magistra by her fellow nuns in 1136, she founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and...	1098	1179	German
Marcabru Marcabru Marcabru is one of the earliest troubadours whose poems are known. There is no certain information about him; the two vidas attached to his poems tell different stories, and both are evidently built on hints in the poems, not on independent information.According to the brief life in MS...	fl. c. 1129	c. 1150	Occitan
Bernard de Cluny	12th century	12th century	French
Jaufre Rudel Jaufré Rudel Jaufre Rudel was the Prince of Blaye and a troubadour of the early–mid 12th century, who probably died during the Second Crusade, in or after 1147...	fl. 1125	after 1147	Occitan
Albertus Parisiensis Albertus Parisiensis Albertus Parisiensis , also known as Albert of Paris, was a French cantor and composer. He is credited with creating the first known piece of European music for three voices.... (Albert of Paris)	fl. 1146	c. 1177	French
Bernart de Ventadorn Bernart de Ventadorn Bernart de Ventadorn , also known as Bernard de Ventadour or Bernat del Ventadorn, was a prominent troubador of the classical age of troubadour poetry. Now thought of as "the Master Singer" he developed the cançons into a more formalized style which allowed for sudden turns...	1130/1140	after 1190/1200	French
Chrétien de Troyes Chrétien de Troyes Chrétien de Troyes was a French poet and trouvère who flourished in the late 12th century. Perhaps he named himself Christian of Troyes in contrast to the illustrious Rashi, also of Troyes...	fl. from 1160	c. 1190	French
Tibors de Sarenom Tibors de Sarenom Tibors de Sarenom or Tiburge is the earliest attestable trobairitz, active during the classical period of medieval Occitan literature at the height of the popularity of the troubadours.-Biography:...	c. 1130	after 1198	Occitan
Giraut de Bornelh Giraut de Bornelh Giraut de Bornelh , whose first name is also spelled Guiraut and whose nickname was Borneil or Borneyll, was a troubadour, born to a lower class family in the Limousin, probably in Bourney, near Excideuil...	c. 1138	1215	Occitan
Berenguier de Palazol Berenguier de Palazol Berenguier de Palazol, Palol, or Palou was a Catalan troubadour from Paillol in the County of Roussillon. Of his total output twelve cansos survive, and a relatively high proportion—eight—with melodies....	fl. 1160	1209	Catalan
Arnaut de Mareuil Arnaut de Mareuil Arnaut de Mareuil was a troubadour, composing lyric poetry in the Occitan language. Twenty-five, perhaps twenty-nine, of his songs, all cansos, survive, six with music....	fl. c. 1170	c. 1200	Occitan
Beatritz de Dia Beatritz de Dia Beatritz or Beatriz de Dia was the most famous of a small group of trobairitz, or female troubadours who wrote courtly songs of love during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.-Life:... (Comtessa de Dia)	c. 1140	c. 1200	Occitan
Bertran de Born Bertran de Born Bertran de Born was a baron from the Limousin in France, and one of the major Occitan troubadours of the twelfth century.-Life and works:...	1140/1150	1215	Occitan
Hendrik van Veldeke Heinrich von Veldeke Hendrik van Veldeke is the first writer in the Low Countries that we know by name who wrote in a European language other than Latin. He was born in Veldeke, a hamlet on the territory of Spalbeek, which has been a community of Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium, since 1977... (Heinrich von Veldeke)	1140/1150	c. 1190	Limburgish/ German
Léonin Léonin Léonin is the first known significant composer of polyphonic organum. He was probably French, probably lived and worked in Paris at the Notre Dame Cathedral and was the earliest member of the Notre Dame school of polyphony and the ars antiqua style who is known by name... (Magister Leonius)	fl. from 1150s	c. 1201?	French
Vidame de Chartres Vidame de Chartres Guillaume de Ferrières was a French nobleman, probably the same person as the trouvère known only as the Vidame de Chartres... (Guillaume de Ferrières?)	c. 1145/1155	1204?	French
Raimbaut d'Aurenga Raimbaut of Orange Raimbaut of Orange , or in Occitan Raimbaut d'Aurenga, was the lord of Orange and Aumelas. His properties included the towns of Frontignan and Mireval. He was the only son of William of Aumelas and of Tiburge, daughter of Raimbaut, count of Orange... (Raimbaut of Orange)	c. 1147	1173	Occitan
Guilhem de Saint-Leidier Guilhem de Saint-Leidier Guilhem de Saint-Leidier or Guillem de Saint Deidier was a troubadour of the 12th century, composing in Occitan. He was lord of Saint Didier-en-Velay, was born at some date before 1150, and died between 1195 and 1200... (Guillem de Saint Deidier)	before 1150	c. 1195/1200	Occitan

Middle Medieval composers (born 1150–1300)

Name	Born	Died	Nationality
Arnaut Daniel Arnaut Daniel Arnaut Daniel de Riberac was an Occitan troubadour of the 12th century, praised by Dante as "il miglior fabbro" and called "Grand Master of Love" by Petrarch...	c. 1150/1160	c. 1200	Occitan
Conon de Béthune Conon de Béthune Conon de Béthune was a crusader and "trouvère" poet.-Life:...	c. 1150	1219	French
Folquet de Marselha Folquet de Marselha Folquet de Marselha, alternatively Folquet de Marseille, Foulques de Toulouse, Fulk of Toulouse came from a Genoese merchant family who lived in Marseille... (Folquet de Marseille)	c. 1150/1160	1231	Occitan
Friedrich von Hûsen Friedrich von Hausen Friedrich von Hausen was a mediaeval German poet, one of the earliest of the Minnesingers; born some time between 1150–60; d. 6 May 1190.... (Friedrich von Hausen)	c. 1150/1160	1190	German
Gontier de Soignies Gontier de Soignies Gontier de Soignies was a medieval trouvère and composer who was active from around 1180 to 1220.-Biography:Gontier was from the region of Soignies in the County of Hainaut, a region that was then a state of the Holy Roman Empire...	fl. 1180	after 1220	French
Peire Raimon de Tolosa Peire Raimon de Tolosa Peire Raimon de Tolosa or Toloza was a troubadour from the merchant class of Toulouse. He is variously referred to as lo Viellz and lo Gros , though these are thought by some to refer to two different persons. On the other hand, lo Viellz could refer to his being of an early generation of...	fl. 1180	after 1220	Occitan
Raimbaut de Vaqueiras Raimbaut de Vaqueiras Raimbaut de Vaqueiras was a Provençal troubadour and, later in his life, knight. His life was spent mainly in Italian courts until 1203, when he joined the Fourth Crusade....	c. 1150/1160	1207	Occitan
Azalais de Porcairagues Azalais de Porcairagues Azalais de Porcairagues or Alasais de Porcaragues was a trobairitz , composing in Occitan in the late 12th century....	c. 1155?	1209?	Occitan
Blondel de Nesle	c. 1155	1202	French
Reinmar von Hagenau Reinmar von Hagenau Reinmar also known as Reinmar von Hagenau or Reinmar der Alte was the most important Minnesinger before Walther von der Vogelweide.... (Reinmar der Alte)	fl. 1185	c. 1205	German
Richard I of England Richard I of England Richard I was King of England from 6 July 1189 until his death. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Lord of Cyprus, Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Count of Nantes, and Overlord of Brittany at various times during the same period... (Richard the Lionheart)	1157	1199	English
Alamanda de Castelnau Alamanda de Castelnau Alamanda was a trobairitz whose only surviving work is a tenso with Giraut de Bornelh called S'ie.us qier conseill, bella amia Alamanda. In the past she was usually considered fictitious and the "tenso" was considered a piece of Giraut's writing...	c. 1160	1223	Occitan
Audefroi le Bastart	fl. 1190	after 1225	French
Cadenet Cadenet (troubadour) Cadenet was a Provençal troubadour who lived and wrote at the court of Raymond VI of Toulouse and eventually made a reputation in Spain. Of his twenty-five surviving songs, twenty-one are cansos, with one alba, one partimen, one pastorela, and one religious piece represented...	c. 1160	c. 1235	Occitan
Gace Brule Gace Brulé Gace Brulé , French trouvère, was a native of Champagne.His name is simply a description of his Blazonry. He owned land in Groslière and had dealings with the Knights Templar, and received a gift from the future Louis VIII. These facts are known from documents from the time...	c. 1160	after 1213	French
Monge de Montaudon Monge de Montaudon The Monge de Montaudon , born Pèire de Vic, was a nobleman, monk, and troubadour from the Auvergne, born at the castle of Vic-sur-Cère near Aurillac, where he became a Benedictine monk around 1180...	fl. from 1193	after 1210	Occitan
Perdigon Perdigon Perdigon or Perdigo was a troubadour from Lespéron in the Gabales, diocese of Gévaudan, modern Lozère. Fourteen of his works survive, including three cansos with melodies...	fl. 1190	after 1212	Occitan
Peirol Peirol Peirol or PeiròlIn Occitan, peir means "stone" and -ol is a diminutive suffix, the name Peirol being understood as the equivalent of "Little Stone" but also "Petit Pierre" or "Pierrot" ; however, "peiròl" also meant a cauldron or a stove...	c. 1160	c. 1222/1225	Occitan
Philippe le Chancelier Philip the Chancellor Philip the Chancellor was a French theologian and Latin lyric poet. He was the illegitimate son of Philippe, Archdeacon of Paris , and was part of a family of powerful clerics. He was born and studied theology in Paris. He was chancellor of Notre Dame de Paris starting in 1217 until his death, and... (Philip the Chancellor)	c. 1160/1170	1236	French
Raimon de Miraval Raimon de Miraval Raimon de Miraval was a troubadour and, according to his vida, "a poor knight from Carcassonne who owned less than a quarter of the castle of Miraval." Favoured by Raymond VI of Toulouse, he was also later associated with Peter II of Aragon and Alfonso VIII of Castile...	c. 1160	c. 1220	Occitan
Albertet de Sestaro Albertet de Sestaro Albertet de Sestaró, Sestairó, Sestairon, Sestarron, Sisteron, or Terascon was a Provençal jongleur and troubadour from the Gapençais . Of his total oeuvre, twenty three poems survive. "Albertet" or "Albertetz" is the Occitan diminutive of Albert...	fl. 1194	after 1221	Occitan
Chastelain de Couci	c. 1165	1203	French
Gautier de Dargies Gautier de Dargies Gautier de Dargies was a trouvère from Dargies. He was one of the most prolific of the early trouvères; possibly twenty-five of his lyrics survive, twenty-two with accompanying melodies, in sixteen separate chansonniers. He was a major influence on contemporary and later trouvères, and one of the...	c. 1165/1170	c. 1236	French
Bernger von Horheim Bernger von Horheim Bernger von Horheim was a Rhenish Minnesänger of the late twelfth century. He wrote in the tradition of courtly love and was influenced by Friedrich von Hausen....	fl. 1196	13th century?	German
Guillem Magret Guillem Magret Guillem or Guilhem Magret was a troubadour and jongleur from the Viennois. He left behind eight poems, of which survive a sirventes and a canso with melodies....	fl. c. 1196	after 1204	Occitan
Castelloza Castelloza Na Castelloza was a noblewoman and trobairitz from Auvergne. According to her later vida, she was the wife of Turc de Mairona, probably the lord of Meyronne. Turc's ancestors had participated in a Crusade around 1210 or 1220, which was the origin of his name...	12th century	13th century	Occitan
Gaucelm Faidit Gaucelm Faidit Gaucelm Faidit was a troubadour, born in Uzerche, in the Limousin, from a family of knights in service of the count of Turenne. He travelled widely in France, Spain, and Hungary...	1170	1202	Occitan
Gui d'Ussel Gui d'Ussel Gui d'Ussel, d'Ussèl, or d'Uisel was a turn-of-the-thirteenth-century troubadour of the Limousin. Twenty of his poems survive: eight cansos, two pastorelas, two coblas, and eight tensos, several with his relatives and including a partimen with Maria de Ventadorn...	c. 1170	after 1209	Occitan
Pérotin Pérotin Pérotin , also called Perotin the Great, was a European composer, believed to be French, who lived around the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th century. He was the most famous member of the Notre Dame school of polyphony and the ars antiqua style... (Perotinus)	fl. c. 1200	13th century	French
Pierre de Molins Pierre de Molins Pierre de Molins or Molaines was an early trouvère. He knew either Gace Brulé or the Chastelain de Couci, two of the first-generation trouvères. He was probably a member of a landed family of Épernay, or possibly of a family resident in and around Noyon...	fl. 1190	c. 1220	French
Pons d'Ortaffa Pons d'Ortaffa Pons d'Ortaffa/Ortafas or Ponç d'Ortafà was a Catalan nobleman and troubadour. He was the feudal lord of Ortafà, between Perpignan and Elne, in Roussillon...	c. 1170	c. 1246	Catalan
Richart de Semilli Richart de Semilli Richart de Semilli was a trouvère, probably from Paris, which he mentions three times in his extant works...	fl. c. 1200?	13th century?	French
Walther von der Vogelweide Walther von der Vogelweide Walther von der Vogelweide is the most celebrated of the Middle High German lyric poets.-Life history:For all his fame, Walther's name is not found in contemporary records, with the exception of a solitary mention in the travelling accounts of Bishop Wolfger of Erla of the Passau diocese:...	c. 1170	c. 1230	German
Wolfram von Eschenbach Wolfram von Eschenbach Wolfram von Eschenbach was a German knight and poet, regarded as one of the greatest epic poets of his time. As a Minnesinger, he also wrote lyric poetry.-Life:...	c. 1170	c. 1220	German
Aimeric de Peguilhan Aimeric de Peguilhan Aimeric or Aimery de Peguilhan, Peguillan, or Pégulhan was a troubadour , born in Peguilhan the son of a cloth merchant....	c. 1175	c. 1230	Occitan
Guilhem Ademar Guilhem Ademar Guilhem Ademar was a troubadour from the Gévaudan. Noble by birth, but very poor, he travelled between the courts of Albi, Toulouse, Narbonne, and Spain. He achieved fame enough in his lifetime to be satirised by the Monge de Montaudon. He entered holy orders towards the end of his life...	fl. from c. 1195	after 1217	Occitan
Peire Vidal Peire Vidal Peire Vidal was a troubadour. According to his biography, he was born in Toulouse, the son of a furrier, and the greatest of singers....	1175	1205	Occitan
Pons de Capduelh Pons de Capduelh Pons de Capduelh, Capduell, Capdveyll, Capdveill, Capduoill, Capdoill, Capdolh, or Chapteuil was a troubadour. His songs were known for their great gaiety... (Pons de Capdoill)	fl. 1195	1236?	Occitan
Gautier de Coincy Gautier de Coincy Gautier de Coincy was a French abbot, poet and musical arranger, chiefly known for his devotion to the Virgin Mary.While he served as prior of Vic-sur-Aisne he compiled Les Miracles de Nostre-Dame in which he set poems in praise of the Virgin Mary to popular melodies and songs of his...	1177	1236	French
Maria de Ventadorn Maria de Ventadorn Maria de Ventadorn was a patron of troubadour poetry at the end of the 12th century.Maria was one of las tres de Torena, "the three of Turenne", the three daughters of viscount Raymond II of Turenne and of Elise de Séverac. These three, according to Bertran de Born, possessed tota beltat terrena,...	12th century	1222?	Occitan
Guilhem Augier Guillem Augier Novella Guillem Augier Novella was a troubadour from Vienne in the Dauphinois who lived most of his adulthood in Lombardy and was active as a minstrel in the early or mid thirteenth century... (Ogiers Novella)	fl. c. 1209?	after 1230	Occitan
Colin Muset Colin Muset Colin Muset was an Old French trouvère and a native of Lorraine. He made his living in the Champagne by travelling from castle to castle singing songs of his own composition and playing the vielle. These are not confined to the praise of courtly love that formed the usual topic of the trouvères,...	fl. c. 1210	after 1250	French
Garsenda de Proensa	c. 1180	c. 1242	Occitan
Peire Cardenal Peire Cardenal Peire Cardenal was a troubadour known for his satirical sirventes and his dislike of the clergy...	c. 1180?	c. 1278?	Occitan
Daude de Pradas Daude de Pradas Daude, Deude, Daurde, or Daudé de Pradas was a troubadour from Prades-Salars in the Rouergue not far from Rodez. He lived to an old age and left behind seventeen to nineteen cansos, including twelve on courtly love, three about sexual conquest, one tenso, one planh , and a religious song...	fl. 1214	c. 1282	Occitan
Aimeric de Belenoi Aimeric de Belenoi Aimeric de Belenoi was a Gascon troubadour. At least fifteen of his songs survive and there are seven more which were attributed to him in some medieval manuscripts....	fl. 1215	after 1242	Occitan
Guiot de Dijon Guiot de Dijon Guiot de Dijon was a Burgundian trouvère. The seventeen chansons ascribed to him are found in two chansonniers: the Chansonnier du Roi and the less reliable Berne Chansonnier...	fl. 1215	after 1225	French
Uc de Saint Circ Uc de Saint Circ Uc de Saint Circ or Hugues de Saint Circq was a troubadour from Quercy. Uc is perhaps most significant to modern historians as the probable author of several vidas and razos of other troubadours, though only one of Bernart de Ventadorn exists under his name...	fl. 1217	after 1253	Occitan
Hue de la Ferté Hue de la Ferté Hue de la Ferté was a French trouvère who wrote three serventois attacking the regency of Blanche of Castile during the minority of Louis IX. He maligns Blanche's partiality to foreigners and singles out Theobald I of Navarre, another trouvère, as unworthy of her support...	fl. 1220	after 1235	French
Neidhart von Reuental Neidhart von Reuental Neidhart von Reuental was one of the most famous German minnesingers. He was probably active in Bavaria and then is known to have been a singer at the court of Friedrich II in Vienna...	c. 1190?	after 1236	German
Guillaume le Vinier Guillaume le Vinier Guillaume le Vinier was a French trouvère and poet. He was the older brother of Gilles le Vinier. He wrote over thirty essays, many accompanied by melodies, including jeu parti and partimen with Andrieu Contredit d'Arras.-References:...	c. 1190	1245	French
Eustache le Peintre de Reims Eustache le Peintre de Reims Eustache le Peintre de Reims or Eustache de Rains was a trouvère from Reims, possibly a painter , but that may just be a family name. Seven poems of his are preserved in surviving chansonniers....	fl. 1225	c. 1240?	French
Gilles le Vinier Gilles le Vinier Gilles le Vinier was a trouvère from a middle-class family of Arras. He was the younger brother of fellow trouvère Guillaume le Vinier. He entered the church and served as a canon at Arras, where he was the church's legal representative between 1225 and 1234, and at Lille. At Arras he created...	fl. 1225	1252	French
Adam de Givenchi Adam de Givenchi Adam de Givenchi was a trouvère, probably from Givenchy and active in and around Arras. His surname is also spelled Givenci, Gevanche, or Gievenci....	fl. 1230	after 1245	French
Guibert Kaukesel Guibert Kaukesel Maistre Guibert Kaukesel or Hubert Chaucesel was a trouvère from Arras, where he is named as a canon in a document of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame in 1250. His title indicates he was probably a master of arts... (Hubert Chaucesel)	fl. c. 1230	after 1255?	French
Margot Dames Margot and Maroie Dame Maroie was a trouvères from Arras, in Picardy, France. She debates Dame Margot in a jeu parti, or debate song, "Je vous pri, dame Maroie." This song survives in two manuscripts, which each give separate and unrelated melodies...	13th century	13th century	French
Maroie Dames Margot and Maroie Dame Maroie was a trouvères from Arras, in Picardy, France. She debates Dame Margot in a jeu parti, or debate song, "Je vous pri, dame Maroie." This song survives in two manuscripts, which each give separate and unrelated melodies...	13th century	13th century	French
Maroie de Dregnau de Lille	13th century	13th century	French
Reinmar von Zweter Reinmar von Zweter Reinmar von Zweter was a Middle High German poet of Spruchdichtung. The iconography in the Manesse Codex suggests that he may have been blind, since he is the only person represented in the manuscript with closed eyes and other people writing...	c. 1200	after 1248	German
Sordello Sordello Sordello da Goito or Sordel de Goit was a 13th-century Lombard troubadour, born in the municipality of Goito in the province of Mantua...	c. 1200	after 1269	Italian
Wincenty z Kielczy Wincenty z Kielczy Wincenty of Kielcza born in the village of Kielcza, Silesia, was a Polish canon in Cracow, a poet writing in Latin, composer, member of the Dominican Order. He is famous for writing the popular hymn Gaude mater Polonia....	c. 1200	after 1262	Polish
Thibaud de Champagne Theobald I of Navarre Theobald I , called the Troubadour, the Chansonnier, and the Posthumous, was Count of Champagne from birth and King of Navarre from 1234... (Thibaud IV, Count of Champagne; Theobald I, King of Navarre)	1201	1253	French
Gautier d'Épinal (fr)	fl. 1232	1272	French
Gertrude of Dagsburg Gertrude of Dagsburg Gertrude of Dagsburg was the daughter and heiress of Albert II, count of Metz and Dagsburg . She was a trouvère, and was married three times....	1205	1225	French
Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel was a trouvère. Of his known oeuvre of probably 97 songs, 96 have survived. Judging by his contacts with other trouvères he was famous and popular...	c. 1210	1272	French
Martin Codax Martín Codax Martín Codax or Martim Codax was a Galician medieval jogral , possibly from Vigo, Galicia in present day Spain. He may have been active during the middle of the thirteenth century, judging from scriptological analysis...	fl. c. 1240	after 1270	Spanish (Galician)
Thomas Herier Thomas Herier Thomas Herier, Erier, Erriers, or Erars was a Picard trouvère associated with the "Arras school".Herier is not mentioned in contemporary documents and all that is known about him is derived from his works. He composed a jeu parti with Gillebert de Berneville and possibly another with Guillaume le...	fl. c. 1240	after 1270	French
Raoul de Soissons Raoul de Soissons Raoul de Soissons was a French nobleman, Crusader, and trouvère. He was the second son of Raoul le Bon, Count of Soissons, and became the Sire de Coeuvres in 1232. Raoul participated in three Crusades....	c. 1210/1215	c. 1270	French
Guiraut d'Espanha Guiraut d'Espanha Guiraut d'Espanha or de Tholoza was of the last generation of troubadours, working in Provence at the court of Charles of Anjou and Countess Beatrice. Many of his poems were addressed to Beatrice. Guiraut was either from Spain or Toulouse—the manuscripts differ—but ten of his dansas, a...	fl. c. 1245	after 1265	Occitan
Lambert Ferri Lambert Ferri Lambert Ferri was a trouvère and cleric at the Benedictine monastery at Saint-Léonard, Pas-de-Calais. By 1268 he was a canon and a deacon of the monastery; he is last associated with the monastery in 1282....	fl. c. 1250	c. 1300	French
Alfonso el Sabio Alfonso X of Castile Alfonso X was a Castilian monarch who ruled as the King of Castile, León and Galicia from 1252 until his death... (Alfonso X, King of Castile)	1221	1284	Spanish (Castilian)
Robert de la Piere Robert de la Piere Robert de la Piere was a trouvère of the so-called "school" of Arras. In his time Robert's bourgeois family was prominent in Arras, though the earliest known member is only recorded in 1212. Robert served as a magistrate in 1255, as attested by one surviving document in the municipal archives...	fl. 1255	1258	French
Guiraut Riquier Guiraut Riquier Guiraut Riquier is among the last of the Provençal troubadours. He is well known because of his great care in writing out his works and keeping them together—the New Grove Encyclopedia considers him an "anthologist" of his own works....	c. 1230	c. 1292	Occitan
Konrad von Würzburg Konrad von Würzburg Konrad von Würzburg was the chief German poet of the second half of the 13th century.As little is known of his life as that of any other epic poet of the age. By birth probably a native of Würzburg, he seems to have spent part of his life in Strassburg and his later years in Basel, where he died...	c. 1230	1287	German
Adam de la Halle Adam de la Halle Adam de la Halle, also known as Adam le Bossu was a French-born trouvère, poet and musician, whose literary and musical works include chansons and jeux-partis in the style of the trouveres, polyphonic rondel and motets in the style of early liturgical polyphony, and a musical play, "The Play of...	c. 1237	1288	French
Meister Rumelant Meister Rumelant Meister Rumelant or Rumslant was a Middle High German lyric poet. His origin is uncertain, although in his poems he referred to himself as a "Saxon"...	fl. c. 1273	after 1286/1287	German
W. de Wycombe W. de Wycombe W. de Wycombe was an English composer and copyist of the Medieval era. He was precentor of the priory of Leominster in Herefordshire...	fl. c. 1275	13th century?	English
Jehan de Lescurel Jehan de Lescurel Jehan de Lescurel was a medieval poet and composer.Nothing is known of his life other than that he was the son of a merchant in Paris, and he probably received his musical training at the Notre Dame cathedral... (Jehannot de l'Escurel)	13th century	1304?	French
Ernoul le Vielle de Gastinois Ernoul le Vielle de Gastinois Ernoul le Vielle de Gastinois was a trouvère of the late thirteenth century. His name may indicate that he was from the Gâtinais, but vielle could mean either "the old" or "the vielle-player".... (Ernous li Viele)	fl. c. 1280	13th century?	French
Der wilde Alexander Der wilde Alexander Der wilde Alexander, also known as Meister Alexander, was a medieval Minnesänger who was active from the mid-1200s until after 1288. His works are considered to be part of the Sangspruchdichtung.-Life:... (Meister Alexander)	fl. 1285	after 1288	German
Petrus de Cruce Petrus de Cruce Petrus de Cruce was active as a cleric, composer and theorist in the late part of the 13th century. His main contribution was to the notational system.-Life:...	fl. c. 1290	after 1302	French
Dom Dinis Denis of Portugal Dinis , called the Farmer King , was the sixth King of Portugal and the Algarve. The eldest son of Afonso III of Portugal by his second wife, Beatrice of Castile and grandson of king Alfonso X of Castile , Dinis succeeded his father in 1279.-Biography:As heir to the throne, Infante Dinis was... (Denis, King of Portugal)	1261	1325	Portuguese
Marchetto da Padova Marchetto da Padova Marchetto da Padova was an Italian music theorist and composer of the late medieval era. His innovations in notation of time-values were fundamental to the music of the Italian ars nova, as was his work on defining the modes and refining tuning...	c. 1274	after 1319	French
Philippe de Vitry Philippe de Vitry Philippe de Vitry was a French composer, music theorist and poet. He was an accomplished, innovative, and influential composer, and may also have been the author of the Ars Nova treatise...	1291	1361	French

Late Medieval and transitional composers (born 1300–1400)

Name	Born	Died	Nationality
Maestro Piero Maestro Piero Maestro Piero was an Italian composer of the late medieval era. He was one of the first composers of the Trecento who is known by name, and probably one of the oldest...	c. 1300	after 1350	Italian
Guillaume de Machaut Guillaume de Machaut Guillaume de Machaut was a Medieval French poet and composer. He is one of the earliest composers on whom significant biographical information is available....	c. 1300	1377	French
Jacopo da Bologna Jacopo da Bologna Jacopo da Bologna was an Italian composer of the Trecento, the period sometimes known as the Italian ars nova. He was one of the first composers of this group, making him a contemporary of Gherardello da Firenze and Giovanni da Firenze...	fl. 1340–1360	1386?	Italian
Giovanni da Cascia Giovanni da Cascia Giovanni da Cascia, also Jovannes de Cascia, Johannes de Florentia, Maestro Giovanni da Firenze, was an Italian composer of the medieval era, active in the middle of the fourteenth century.... (Giovanni da Firenze)	fl. 1340?	14 century	Italian
Gherardello da Firenze Gherardello da Firenze Gherardello da Firenze was an Italian composer of the Trecento...	1320/1325	1362/1363	Italian
John Hanboys John Hanboys John Hanboys, also John Hamboys and possibly J. de Alto Bosco , was an English Renaissance composer and musical theorist, highly regarded in his own country, although the details of his life are unclear.-Biography:...	fl. c. 1370?	14th century?	English
Francesco Landini Francesco Landini Francesco degli Organi, Francesco il Cieco, or Francesco da Firenze, called by later generations Francesco Landini or Landino was an Italian composer, organist, singer, poet and instrument maker...	1325/1335	1397	Italian
Lorenzo da Firenze Lorenzo da Firenze Lorenzo da Firenze was an Italian composer and music teacher of the Trecento. He was closely associated with Francesco Landini in Florence, and was one of the composers of the period known as the Italian ars nova.Little is known about his life, but some details can be inferred from the music... (Lorenzo Masini)	14th century	1372/1373	Italian
Donato da Cascia Donato da Cascia Donato da Cascia was an Italian composer of the Trecento. All of his surviving music is secular, and the largest single source is the Squarcialupi Codex...	fl. c. 1350	after 1370	Italian
Grimace Grimace (composer) Grimace was a French composer active in the mid-to-late 14th century.Grimace was active in the period of music history known as the ars nova and was probably a contemporary of Guillaume de Machaut, since his compositions lack the complicated rhythms of the Ars subtilior...	14th century	14th century?	French
Monch von Salzburg (de)	14th century	14th century?	German
Jehan Vaillant ([]) (Johannes Vaillant)	fl. c. 1360?	1390/1400?	French
Johannes Alanus Johannes Alanus Johannes Alanus was an English composer. He wrote the motet Sub arturo plebs/Fons citharizancium/In omnem terram. Also attributed to him are the songs "Min frow, min frow" and "Min herze wil all zit frowen pflegen", both lieds, and "S'en vos por moy pitié ne truis", a virelai...	14th century	1373?	English
Vincenzo da Rimini Vincenzo da Rimini Vincenzo da Rimini, also Magister Dominus Abbas de Arimino, L’abate Vincençio da Imola, Frate Vincenço, was an Italian composer of the medieval era, active in the middle of the 14th century....	fl. c. 1362?	after 1364?	Italian
Bartolino da Padova Bartolino da Padova Bartolino da Padova was an Italian composer of the late 14th century...	fl. 1365	after 1405	Italian
Matheus de Sancto Johanne (http://www.hoasm.org/IIIF/Mayshuet.html) (Mayshuet de Joan)	fl. c. 1365	after 1387	French
Philippus de Caserta Philippus de Caserta Philippus de Caserta, also Philipoctus or Filipoctus was a medieval music theorist and composer associated with the style known as ars subtilior.... (Philipoctus de Caserta)	fl. c. 1370	c. 1400	Italian
Egardus Egardus Egardus was a European composer of music in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Almost no information survives about his life, and only three of his works are known. A certain "Johannes Ecghaerd", who held chaplaincies in Bruges and Diksmuide, may be a possible match for Egardus...	fl. c. 1370?	after 1400	Flemish
Egidius de Francia Egidius de Francia Egidius de Francia, also known as Magister Egidius, was a French medieval composer. He may have been an Augustinian monk, as in a miniature illumination, he is titled Magister Egidius Augustinus...	14th century	14th century?	French
Johannes Cuvelier ([]) (Cunelier)	fl. c. 1372	after 1387	French
Franciscus Andrieu François Andrieu François Andrieu was a composer, most likely French, of the late 14th century. Nothing is known about him except that he wrote an elegy on the death of Guillaume de Machaut , a four-voice ballade Armes amours / O flour des flours, which is contained in the Chantilly Codex...	fl. c. 1377	c. 1400	French?
Johannes Symonis Hasprois (http://www.hoasm.org/IIIF/Hasprois.html)	fl. 1378	1428	French
Arrigo (Henrico)	14th century	14th century	Italian
Niccolò da Perugia Niccolò da Perugia Niccolò da Perugia was an Italian composer of the Trecento, the musical period also known as the "Italian ars nova". He was a contemporary of Francesco Landini, and apparently was most active in Florence.Little is known for certain about his life; only a few biographical details are verifiable...	14th century	c. 1400	Italian
Jehan Suzay (http://www.hoasm.org/IIIF/Suzay.html)	fl. c. 1380	after 1395	French
Trebor Trebor (composer) Trebor was a 14th-century composer of polyphonic chansons, active in Navarre and other southwest European courts circa 1380-1400. He may be the same person also called Triboll, Trebol, and Borlet in other contemporaneous sources...	fl. c. 1380	c. 1400	French
Antonio Zacara da Teramo Zacara da Teramo Antonio Zacara da Teramo was an Italian composer, singer, and papal secretary of the late Trecento and early 15th century...	c. 1350/1360	c. 1413/1416	Italian
Jacob Senleches Jacob Senleches Jacob Senleches was a Franco-Flemish composer and harpist of the late Middle Ages. He composed in a style commonly known as the ars subtilior....	fl. c. 1382	after 1395	French
Andrea da Firenze Andrea da Firenze Andrea da Firenze was an Italian composer and organist of the late medieval era. Along with Francesco Landini and Paolo da Firenze, he was a leading representative of the Italian ars nova style of the Trecento, and was a prolific composer of secular songs, principally ballate.-Life:Since Andrea... (Andreas de Florentia)	fl. c. 1375	c. 1415	Italian
Paolo da Firenze Paolo da Firenze Paolo da Firenze was an Italian composer and music theorist of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, the transition from the musical Medieval era to the Renaissance... (Paolo Tenorista)	c. 1355	c. 1436	Italian
Solage Solage Solage was a French composer. He composed the most pieces in the Chantilly Codex, the principal source of music of the ars subtilior, the manneristic compositional school centered around Avignon at the end of the century.-Life:Nothing is known about his life, beyond what can be inferred from the...	14th century	after 1403	French
Hugo von Montfort Hugo von Montfort Hugo von Montfort was an Austrian minstrel of the late Middle Ages.Hugo VII was the Count of Montfort-Bregenz and Pfannberg, head of an old and influential family of nobles, holding numerous high administrative posts...	1357	1423	German (Austrian)
Giovanni Mazzuoli Giovanni Mazzuoli Giovanni Mazzuoli was an Italian composer and organist of the late medieval and early Renaissance eras.... (Giovanni degli Organi)	1360	1426	Italian
Grazioso da Padova (Gratiosus de Padua)	fl. c. 1391?	15th century?	Italian
Martinus Fabri Martinus Fabri Martinus Fabri was a North Netherlandish composer of the late 14th century.Fabri was probably either from Flanders or the Netherlands, and lived near the end of the Middle Ages. The surname "Fabri" was probably a Latinization of the name "Smeets" or perhaps "Le Fèvre" . Little is known about his...	fl. 1395	1400	Dutch
Borlet Borlet Borlet was a 14th and 15th century composer whose life we know extremely little about. It is thought that his name is an anagram of Trebol, a French composer who served Martin of Aragon in 1409 at the same time as Gacian Reyneau and other composers in the Codex Chantilly.If this Trebol is the same...	fl. c. 1397?	after 1409	French
Aleyn Aleyn Aleyn was an English composer. Two of his works survive in the Old Hall Manuscript, one a Gloria , the other a Sarum Agnus Dei discant , later scratched out, which is ascribed to W. Aleyn. If this inscription is correct, the conflation of this composer and Johannes Alanus, who wrote Sub Arturo...	fl. c. 1400	15th century	English
Johannes Ciconia Johannes Ciconia Johannes Ciconia was a late medieval composer and music theorist who worked most of his adult life in Italy, particularly in the service of the Papal Chapels and at the cathedral of Padua....	c. 1370	1412	Flemish
Matteo da Perugia Matteo da Perugia Matteo da Perugia was a Medieval Italian composer, presumably from Perugia. From 1402 to 1407 he was the first magister cappellae of the Milan Cathedral; his duties included being cantor and teaching three boys selected by the Cathedral deputies. Little is known about his life apart from this...	fl. 1400	after 1416	Italian
Johannes Tapissier Johannes Tapissier Johannes Tapissier was a French composer and teacher of the late Middle Ages, in the period transitional to the Renaissance style... (Jean de Noyers)	c. 1370	before 1410	Burgundian
Antonio da Cividale Antonio da Cividale Antonio da Cividale was an Italian composer of the early Quattrocento, at the end of the musical medieval era and beginning of the Renaissance... (Antonius de Civitate Austrie)	fl. c. 1392	1421	Italian
Anthonello de Caserta	14th century	after 1402?	Italian
Oswald von Wolkenstein Oswald von Wolkenstein Oswald von Wolkenstein was a poet, composer and diplomat. In the latter capacity, he traveled through much of Europe, even as far as Georgia , and was inducted into the Order of the Dragon...	c. 1377	1445	German
Andrea Stefani	fl. c. 1399	15th century	Italian
Bartolomeo da Bologna Bartolomeo da Bologna Bartolomeo da Bologna was a north Italian composer of the early Quattrocento, the transitional period between the late medieval style of the Trecento and the early Renaissance.- Life :...	fl. 1405	after 1427	Italian
Baude Cordier Baude Cordier Baude Cordier was a French composer from Rheims; it has been suggested that Cordier was the nom de plume of Baude Fresnel. Cordier's works are considered among the prime examples of ars subtilior...	c. 1380	before 1440	French
Thomas Fabri Thomas Fabri Thomas Fabri was a composer from the Netherlands, who worked probably around the 15th century.- Biography :Fabri was a scholar of Jean de Noyers alias Tapissier in Paris and from Johannes Ecghaert in Brugge , at least if we may believe the partition of his 'Gloria', where he is described as...	fl. 1400	after 1415	Flemish
Pierre Fontaine Pierre Fontaine (composer) Pierre Fontaine was a French composer of the transitional era between the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, and a member of the Burgundian School of composers. While he was well-known at the time, most of his music has probably been lost...	c. 1380	c. 1450	French
Piero Mazzuoli	14th century	15th century?	Italian
Mikołaj Radomski (Nicolaus de Radom)	fl. c. 1400	15th century	Polish
Ugolino da Orvieto (it)	c. 1380	c. 1457	Italian
Leonel Power Leonel Power Leonel Power was an English composer of the late Medieval and early Renaissance eras. Along with John Dunstaple, he was one of the major figures in English music in the early 15th century.-Life:...	c. 1370/1385?	1445	English
Jacobus Vide Jacobus Vide Jacobus Vide was a Franco-Flemish composer of the transitional period between the medieval period and early Renaissance...	fl. 1405	1433	Burgundian
Johannes Cesaris Johannes Cesaris Johannes Cesaris was a French composer of the late Medieval era and early Renaissance. He was one of the composers of the transitional style between the two epochs, and was active at the Burgundian court in the early 15th century....	fl. 1406	1417	French
Roy Henry Roy Henry Roy Henry was an English composer, almost certainly a king of England, probably Henry V, but also possibly Henry IV... (probably Henry V of England Henry V of England Henry V was King of England from 1413 until his death at the age of 35 in 1422. He was the second monarch belonging to the House of Lancaster.... )	fl. c. 1410	15th century	English
Byttering Byttering Byttering was an English composer during the transitional period from Medieval to Renaissance styles. Five of his compositions have survived, all of them in the Old Hall Manuscript.A possible identification of Byttering with a Thomas Byteryng has been made... (possibly Thomas Byttering)	fl. c. 1410	after 1420?	English
Conradus de Pistoia (Coradus de Pistorio)	fl. c. 1410	15th century	Italian
John Dunstaple	c. 1390	1453	English
Hugo de Lantins Hugo de Lantins Hugo de Lantins was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Medieval era and early Renaissance. He was active in Italy, especially Venice, and wrote both sacred and secular music; he may have been a relative of Arnold de Lantins, another composer active at the same time in the same area.Little is...	fl. c. 1420	after 1430?	Flemish
Richard Loqueville Richard Loqueville Richard Loqueville was a French Medieval and Renaissance transitionary composer. He played the harp and taught it to the son of the Duke of Bar in 1410, as well as taught plainsong to the Duke's choirboys...	fl. 1410	1418	French
Pycard Pycard Pycard, also spelt Picard and Picart was an English or French Medieval and Renaissance transitionary composer....	fl. c. 1410	15th century	English or French
Arnold de Lantins Arnold de Lantins Arnold de Lantins was a Franco–Flemish composer of the late medieval and early Renaissance eras. He is one of a few composers who shows aspects of both medieval and Renaissance style, and was a contemporary of Dufay during Dufay's sojourn in Italy.Very little is known about his life, except...	fl. 1423	1432	Flemish
Guillaume Dufay Guillaume Dufay Guillaume Dufay was a Franco-Flemish composer of the early Renaissance. As the central figure in the Burgundian School, he was the most famous and influential composer in Europe in the mid-15th century.-Early life:From the evidence of his will, he was probably born in Beersel, in the vicinity of...	1397	1474	Burgundian
Estienne Grossin Estienne Grossin Estienne Grossin was a French composer of the late Medieval era and early Renaissance, active in Paris. He was one of the first composers to write a partially cyclic mass, a form which was to become the predominant large-scale vehicle for musical expression later in the 15th century.-Life:He was...	fl. 1418	after 1421	French
Gilles Binchois Gilles Binchois Gilles de Binche , also known as Gilles de Bins , was a Franco-Flemish composer, one of the earliest members of the Burgundian School, and one of the three most famous composers of the early 15th century...	c. 1400	1460	Burgundian
Johannes Brassart Johannes Brassart Johannes Brassart was a Burgundian composer of the early Renaissance. Of his output, only sacred vocal music has survived, and it typifies early 15th century practice.- Life :...	c. 1400/1405	1455	Burgundian

Note on the List

Early Medieval Composers (born before 1150)

Middle Medieval composers (born 1150–1300)

Late Medieval and transitional composers (born 1300–1400)

See also