Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Monteverdi and the madrigal From the fourteenth century onwards, Italy saw the successive appearance of two forms of madrigal: the first lasted only a century (from 1320 to 1420 approximately), and the second was born in the sixteenth century (around 1520). A poetic and vocal genre, mainly secular...

Pierre Sandrin

Pierre Sandrin, born Pierre Regnault, was a French Renaissance composer. He was a famous composer in his time. He was in the service of François I, Henri II and Hippolyte d’Este around 1550-1560, and Hippolyte d’Este around 1550-1560. He is the author of fifty songs for four voices, on...

Jacob Obrecht

Jacob Obrecht (* 1457 or 1458 in Ghent/Belgium; † shortly before 1 August 1505 in Ferrara/Italy) was a Franco-Flemish composer, singer and cleric of the Renaissance. He was the only child of the Ghent city trumpeter Willem (Guillermus) Hobrecht (1430/35 – 22 November 1488). The approximate date of birth...

Robert Ballard

Robert Ballard (* about 1575 in Paris (?); † after 1650) was a French lutenist and composer. He was the son of the publisher Robert Ballard Senior (c.1527–1588), the head of the well-known music publishers “Le Roy & Ballard”, founded in 1551 with cousin Adrian Le Roy (a notable...
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