What were the important Renaissance composers?

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However, at the onset of the Renaissance there were two critical composers of the Flemish School who set up all the compositional ground rules that impacted profoundly on the Renaissance period and served as a powerful departure from the compositional techniques of the middle ages. read more

This is a list of composers active during the Renaissance period of European history. Since the 14th century is not usually considered by music historians to be part of the musical Renaissance, but part of the Middle Ages, composers active during that time can be found in the List of Medieval composers. Composers on this list had some period of significant activity after 1400, before 1600, or in a few cases they wrote music in a Renaissance idiom in the several decades after 1600. read more