Classical Music Timeline: 1500 A.D. to 1699 A.D.

Composers who were born or died during this period

1505 Thomas Tallis born
1521 Josquin des Prez dies
1525 Giovanni Perluigi Palestrina born
1563 John Dowland born
1585 Heinrich Schütz born
Thomas Tallis dies
1587 Francesca Caccini born
1594 Giovanni Perluigi Palestrina dies
1626 John Dowland dies
1640 (c.) Francesca Caccini dies
1659 Henry Purcell born
1672 Heinrich Schütz dies
1685 Johann Sebastian Bach born
George Frideric Handel (Georg Friedrich Händel) born
1695 Henry Purcell die