Template:Timeline Classical Composers Renaissance

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 from:1300 till:1377 text:"Guillaume de Machaut" $bold     
 from:1390 till:1453 text:John Dunstable 
 from:1400 till:1460 text:Gilles Binchois
 from:1397 till:1474 text:Guillaume Dufay
 from:1415 till:1497 text:"Johannes Ockeghem" $bold  
 from:1430 till:1492 text:Antoine Busnois       
 from:1450 till:1505 text:Jacob Obrecht  
 from:1450 till:1521 text:"Josquin des Prez" $bold 
 from:1490 till:1562 text:Adrian Willaert  
 from:1490 till:1545 text:John Taverner
 from:1505 till:1585 text:Thomas Tallis
 from:1516 till:1565 text:Cipriano de Rore       
 from:1525 till:1594 text:"Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina" $bold
 from:1532 till:1594 text:"Orlande de Lassus" $bold
 from:1536 till:1596 text:Giaches de Wert   
 from:1543 till:1623 text:"William Byrd" $bold
 from:1553 till:1612 text:"Giovanni Gabrieli" $bold
 from:1561 till:1633 text:Jacopo Peri
 from:1561 till:1613 text:"Carlo Gesualdo"
 from:1562 till:1621 text:"JP Sweelinck" $bold
 from:1563 till:1626 text:"John Dowland"
 from:1564 till:1616 text:"William Shakespeare" $bold
 from:1567 till:1643 text:"Claudio Monteverdi (Mr. Opera)" $bold
 from:1571 till:1621 text:Michael Praetorius
 from:1582 till:end text:Gregorio Allegri    #till 1652    
 from:1583 till:1625 text:Orlando Gibbons
 from:1585 till:end text:Heinrich Schutz     #till 1672
 from:1602 till:end text:Francesco Cavalli     #till 1676

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