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Henry Cooke
British composer and choirmaster
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel
German-English composer
Purcell, Henry
Henry Purcell
English composer
William Byrd
William Byrd
English composer
Tallis, Thomas
Thomas Tallis
English composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
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William Boyce
British composer
Blow, John
John Blow
English musician
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Thomas Weelkes
English composer
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Christopher Tye
British composer
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Orlando Gibbons
English composer
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William Billings
American composer
Matthew Locke, portrait by an unknown artist; in the collection of the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford
Matthew Locke
British composer
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Pelham Humfrey
English composer
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Samuel Sebastian Wesley
English composer
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William Croft
English musician
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Thomas Tomkins
English composer and organist
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John Isham
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John Mundy
English composer
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Jeremiah Clarke
English composer