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      Lamento de la Ninfa is one of the most famous vocal pieces of Claudio Monteverdi, a leading Italian composer whose work...
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      The vital source of Lutheran music by Andreas Hammerschmidt

      Andreas Hammerschmidt was a German composer and organist of Bohemian birth whose works played an important part in the...
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of Warwick
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      Anthony Holborne: the master of Elizabethan consort music

      Antony Holborne was an English Renaissance composer whose music for lute and cittern appeared in two important...
    • The Corn Harvest by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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      The boundless Flemish heritage of Heinrich Isaac

      Heinrich Isaac (1450—1517) was a versatile and prolific Flemish composer of both secular and church music. He was a...
    • The Marketplace in Naples During the Plague of 1656 by Micco Spadaro
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      The worst disaster to strike the kingdom and city of Naples in the 1600s was the plague of 1656. The outbreak of the...
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      150 composers contributed to La Folia through the centuries

      La Folia is one of the most revered melodies in music history. Originating as a late fifteenth-century Portuguese dance...
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      Exceptional sensibility of consort music from the traveling maestro of the Stuart era

      John Jenkins (1592–1678), lutenist and string player, was the most eminent composer of the Stuart and Commonwealth eras...
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