List of music theorists

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List of music theorists
This is a List of music theorists arranged in chronological order. The criteria for inclusion relies on publication or
(especially with pre-15th century theorists) dissemination of written theoretical work by western musicians, and their
inclusion in published books discussing the history of music theory.
Since the categories for music theorists are subdivided by nationality, this list is intended to provide an overview of
music theorists and provide for further exploration of the field.
Information on some theorists is scant (e.g. those named Anonymous); in those cases the link goes to the existing
treatise(s).
Antiquity
Augustine of Hippo (354430)
Aristoxenus of Tarentum (355 BC)
Martianus Capella (early 5th century)
Boethius (480524/525)
Cassiodorus (485580)
Isidore of Seville (c. 560 636)
Middle Ages
Anonymous 8 (Musica enchiriadis) (9th century)
Johannes Scotus Eriugena (c. 815 877)
Hucbald (c. 840 or 850 930)
Notker the Stammerer (840912)
Aurelian of Rme (fl. 840850)
Regino of Prm (died c. 915)
Notker Labeo (9501022)
Guido of Arezzo (c. 991 after 1033)
Anonymous 7 (Gerbert) (Alia musica) (9th10th century)
Berno of Reichenau (died 1048)
Pseudo-Odo (Dialogus de musica) (11th century)
Hermannus Contractus(10131054)
Theogerus of Metz (c. 1050 c. 1120)
Coussemaker, doc. 1 (Ad organum faciendum) (2nd half of 11th century)
Aribo (fl. 10681078)
Wilhelm of Hirsau (died 1091)
Frutolfus of Michelsberg (mid-11th century 1103)
Johannes Cotto (fl. 1100)
Guido of Eu (fl. 1130s)
Theinred of Dover (12th century)
Ficker Anonymous (Vatican organum treatise) (early 13th century)
Franco of Cologne (13th century)
Bartholomeus Anglicus (before 1203 1272)
Roger Bacon (12141292)
Coussemaker, doc. 3 (Discantus vulgaris positio) (c. 1230)
Egidius de Zamora (fl. 12601280)
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Anonymous 4 (De mensuris et discantu) (fl. 1270 1280)
Amerus (fl. 1271)
Hieronymus of Moravia (died after 1272)
Anonymous 2 (Tractatus de discantu) (late 13th century)
Engelbert of Admont (c. 1250 1331)
Jacob of Lige (c. 1260 after 1330)
Johannes de Garlandia (fl. 12701320)
Magister Lambertus (fl. c. 1270)
Petrus de Cruce (late 13th century)
Petrus de Picardia (mid-13th century)
Elias Salomo (late 13th century)
Sowa AnonymousAnonymous of St. Emmeram (De musica mensurata) (1279)
Philippe de Vitry (c. 1291 1361)
Hugo Spechtshart (c. 1285 1359/60)
Anonymous 3 (Compendiolum artis veteris) (early 14th century)
Johannes Vetulus de Anagnia (1st half of 14th century)
Petrus Frater Dictus Palma Ociosa (fl. early 14th century)
Johannes de Grocheio (fl. 1300)
Manuel Bryennius (14th century)
Walter Odington (died 1330)
Johannes de Muris (c. 1290 after 1344)
Marchetto da Padova (fl. 12741319)
Anonymous 7 (Coussemaker) (De diversis manieribus) (mid-14th century)
John Hanboys (late 14th century)
Robert de Handlo (early 14th century)
John of Tewkesbury (fl. 13511392)
Johannes Boen (died 1367)
Ellsworth Anonymi (The Berkeley Manuscript) (before 1375)
Anonymous 5 (Ars cantus mensurabilis) (late 14th century)
Johannes Ciconia (13601412)
Philippus de Caserta (late 14th century)
Renaissance
Fernand Estevan (early 15th century)
Giorgio Anselmi (c. 1386 1440/43)
Ugolino of Forl or Ugolino of Orvieto (c. 1380 1452)
Antonius de Leno (early 15th century)
John Hothby (c. 1410 1487)
Johannes Gallicus (c. 1415 1473)
Prosdocimus de Beldemandis (died 1428)
Johannes Tinctoris (c. 1435 1511)
Bartolomeus Ramis de Pareia (c. 1440 after 1491)
Adam von Fulda (14451505)
Johannes Cochlaeus (14491552)
Anonymous 11 (Tractatus de musica plana et mensurabili) (mid-15th century)
Anonymous 12 (Tractatus de musica) (2nd half of 15th century)
Franchinus Gaffurius (14511522)
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Nicolo Burz (14531528)
Giovanni Spataro (14581541)
Jacques Lefvre d'taples (Jacobus Faber Stapulensis) (c. 1460 1536) Musica libris demonstrata quattuor, Paris
1496
Domingo Marcos Durn (c. 1460 1529)
Erasmus Horicius (c. 1465 early 16th century)
Michael Keinspeck (c. 1470 mid-16th century)
Lodovico Fogliano (c. 1475 1542)
Johannes Aventinus (14771534)
Pietro Aaron (c. 1480 c. 1550)
Nicolaus Wollick (c. 1480 1541)
Melchior Schanppecher (born c. 1480)
John Tucke (c. 1482 after 1539)
Martin Agricola (14861556)
Heinrich Glarean (14881563)
Georg Rhau (14881548)
Giovanni Del Lago (c. 1490 1544)
Giovanni Maria Lanfranco (c. 1490 1545)
Andreas Ornithoparchus (born c. 1490)
Bonaventura da Brescia (late 15th century)
Guilelmus Monachus (late 15th century)
Guillermo de Podio (late 15th century)
Sylvestro di Ganassi dal Fontego (Silvestro Ganassi) (c. 1492 mid-16th century)
Stephanus Vanneo (14931535)
Sebald Heyden (14991561)
Heinrich Faber (before 15001552)
Simon de Quercu (early 16th century)
Vicente Lusitano (16th century)
Auctor Lampadius (c. 1500 1559)
Adrianus Petit Coclico (c. 1500 1562)
Juan Bermudo (c. 1510 1565)
Nikolaus Listenius (born c. 1510)
Ghiselin Danckerts (c. 1510 after 1565)
Diego Ortiz (c. 1510 1570)
Nicola Vicentino (15111576)
Francisco de Salinas (15131590)
Gioseffo Zarlino (15171590)
Girolamo Mei (15191594)
Aiguino de Brescia (15201581)
Vincenzo Galilei (late 15201591)
Hermann Finck (15271558)
Francisco de Montanos (c. 1528 after 1592)
Ercole Bottrigari (15311612)
Pietro Pontio (15321595)
Gallus Dressler (1533 c. 1580/89)
Orazio Tigrini (c. 1535 1591)
Giovanni Maria Artusi (c. 1540 1613)
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Giulio Caccini (c. 1545 1618)
Cyriakus Schneegass (15461597)
Philibert Jambe de Fer (fl. 15481564)
Claudius Sebastiani (active mid-16th century)
John Wylde (mid-15th century)
Riccardo Rognoni or Rogniono (c. 1550 1620), Passaggi per potersi esercitare nel diminuire Venice 1592
Pierre Maillart (15501622)
Scipione Cerreto (c. 1551 1633)
Elway Bevin (c. 1554 1638)
Girolamo Diruta (c. 1554 after 1610)
Jean Yssandon (c. 1555 1582)
Lodovico Zacconi (15551627)
Sethus Calvisius (15561615)
Johannes Nucius (c. 1556 1620)
Thomas Morley (c. 1557 1602)
Claudius Sebastiani (fl. 1557-65)
Adam Gumpelzhaimer (15591625)
Giovanni Luca Conforti (c. 1560 1608), Breve et facile maniera dessercitarsi..., Rome 1593
Charles Butler (c. 1560 1647)
Lodovico Viadana (c. 1560 1627)
Giovanni Bassano (1560/611617), Ricercate, passaggi et cadentie... Venice 1585
Pietro Cerone (15611625)
Peter Eichmann (15611623)
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (15621621)
Giovanni Camillo Maffei (fl 156273), Delle lettere del Signor Gio. Camillo Maffei da Solofra, libri due ...,
Napoli 1562
William Bathe (15641614)
Joachim Burmeister (15641629)
Johannes Christoph Demantius (15671643)
Claudio Monteverdi (15671643)
Thomas Campion (15671620)
Adriano Banchieri (15681634)
Girolamo Dalla Casa (before 1568 1601), Il vero modo di diminuir con tutte le sorti di stromenti di fiato, &
corda, & di voce humana Venice: Angelo Gardano 1584
Michael Praetorius (c. 1569/73 1621)
Georg Quitschreiber (15691638)
Toms de Santa Mara (died 1570)
Francesco Bianciardi (c. 1571 1607)
Eucharius Hoffmann (died 1588)
Giovanni Battista Bovicelli (fl 15924), Regole, passaggi di musica, madrigali et motetti passeggiati Venice,
1594
Gaspar Stoquerus (late 16th century)
Francesco Rognoni Taeggio (second half of the 16th century after 1626) Selva de varii passaggi Milan 1620
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17th century
Aureliano Virgiliano (fl c1620), Il Dolcimelo, c1620 (ms)
Wolfgang Schonsleder (15701651)
John Coprario (c. 1570 1626)
Johannes Kepler (15711630)
Giulio Monteverdi (15731630/31)
Robert Fludd (15741637)
Salomon de Caus (c. 1576 1626)
Gerhard Johann Vossius (15771649)
Agostino Agazzari (15781640)
Henricus Baryphonus (15811655)
Severo Bonini (15821663)
Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1582 1635)
Johannes Lippius (15851612)
Antoine Parran (15871650)
Johann Heinrich Alsted (15881638)
Johann Andreas Herbst (15881666)
Marin Mersenne (15881648)
Heinrich Grimm (15931637)
Giovanni Battista Doni (15951647)
Ren Descartes (15961650)
Galeazzo Sabbatini (15971662)
Joan Albert Ban (15971644)
Johann Crger (15981662)
Joachim Thuringus (born late 16th century)
Agostino Pisa (early 17th century)
Jean Denis (c. 1600 1672)
Antoine Du Cousu (c. 1600 1658)
Marco Scacchi (c. 1600 1681/87)
Athanasius Kircher (16011680)
Christopher Simpson (c. 1605 1669)
Hans Mikkelsen Ravn (c. 1610 1663)
Wolfgang Ebner (16121665)
Otto Gibelius (16121682)
Thomas Mace (1612/3 c. 1706)
Lorenzo Penna (16131693)
William Holder (16161696)
John Wallis (16161703)
Isaac Vossius (16181689)
Conrad Matthaei (1619 c. 1667)
Matthew Locke (16211677)
John Playford (16231686)
Andrs Lorente (16241703)
Ren Ouvrard (16241694)
Bigne de Bacilly (c. 1625 1690)
Giovanni Andrea Bontempi (c. 1624 1705)
Christoph Bernhard (16281692)
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Christiaan Huygens (16291695)
Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers (c. 1632 1714)
Angelo Berardi (c. 1636 1694)
Daniel Speer (16361707)
Francis North (16371685)
Wolfgang Caspar Printz (16411717)
Giovanni Maria Bononcini (16421678)
Jean Rousseau (16441700)
Andreas Werckmeister (16451706)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (16461716)
Thomas Salmon (16481706)
Johann Georg Ahle (16511706)
Roger North (c. 1651 1734)
Zaccaria Tevo (1651 c. 1709/12)
Joseph Sauveur (16531716)
Georg Muffat (16531704)
Pier Francesco Tosi (c. 1653 1732)
Pablo Nassarre (c. 1654 1730)
Johann Baptist Samber (16541717)
Johann Beer (16551700)
Sbastien de Brossard (16551730)
tienne Louli (c. 1655 1707)
Giovanni dAvella (fl. 1657) Regole di musica, divise in cinque trattati (Rome, 1657)
Henry Purcell (16591695)
Nicola Matteis (fl. 1670c. 1698)
Friedrich Erhard Niedt (16741708)
Charles Masson (fl. 16801700)
De La Voye-Mignot (died 1684)
18th century
Johann Joseph Fux (16601741)
Johann Kuhnau (16601722)
Tomas Baltazar Janovka (c. 1660 c. 1715)
Francesco Gasparini (16611727)
Johann Heinrich Buttstett (16661727)
Johann Christoph Pepusch (16671752)
David Kellner (c. 1670 1748)
Johann Philipp Treiber (16751727)
Georg Philipp Telemann (16811767)
Johann Mattheson (16811764)
Johann David Heinichen (16831729)
Jean-Philippe Rameau (16831764)
Meinrad Spiess (16831761)
Johann Gottfried Walther (16841748)
Alexander Malcolm (16851763)
Johann Georg Neidhardt (16851739)
Franois Campion (c. 1686 1748)
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Francesco Geminiani (16871762)
Giuseppe Tartini (16921770)
Johann Joachim Quantz (16971773)
Francesco Antonio Vallotti (16971780)
Jakob Adlung (16991762)
Christoph Gottlieb Schroter (16991782)
William Tans'ur (17001783)
De Saint-Lambert (fl. 17001710)
Georg Andreas Sorge (17031778)
Gottfried Keller (died 1704)
Jean-Adam Serre (17041788)
Giovanni Battista Martini (17061784)
Leonhard Euler (17071783)
Johann Adolph Scheibe (17081776)
Jean Laurent de Bthizy (17091781)
Joseph Riepel (17091782)
Lorenz Christoph Mizler Kolof (17111778)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (17121778)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (17141788)
Pierre-Joseph Roussier (17161792)
Jean le Rond d'Alembert (17171783)
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (17181795)
Niccolo Pasquali (c. 1718 1757)
Leopold Mozart (17191787)
Johann Friedrich Agricola (17201774)
Johann Georg Sulzer (17201779)
Johann Philipp Kirnberger (17211783)
George Simon Lohlein (17251781)
Giuseppe Paolucci (17261776)
Antonio Eximeno y Pujades (17291808)
Antonio Soler (17291783)
Johann Friedrich Daube (c. 1730 1797)
Luigi Antonio Sabbatini (c. 1732 1809)
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (17361809)
Vincenzo Manfredini (17371799)
Johann Gottlieb Portmann (17391798)
Honor Franois Marie Langl (17411807)
Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (17471800)
Georg Michael Telemann (17481831)
Heinrich Christoph Koch (17491816)
Georg Vogler (17491814)
Antonio Ventura Roel del Rio (fl. mid-18th century)
Augustus Frederic Christopher Kollmann (17561829)
Daniel Gottlob Trk (17561813)
Francesco Galeazzi (17581819)
Luigi Cherubini (17601842)
Jrme-Joseph de Momigny (17621842)
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Antoine-Joseph Reicha (17701836)
Alexandre-tienne Choron (17711834)
John Holden (died c. 1771)
Charles Simon Catel (17731830)
Johann Bernhard Logier (17771846)
Gottfried Weber (17791839)
19th century
Franois-Joseph Ftis (17841871)
Simon Sechter (17881867)
Carl Czerny (17911857)
Moritz Hauptmann (17921868)
Adolf Bernhard Marx (c. 1795 1866)
Johann Christian Lobe (17971881)
Siegfried Dehn (17991858)
Henri Reber (18071880)
Carl Friedrich Weitzmann (18081880)
Ernst Friedrich Richter (18081879)
Alfred Day (18101849)
George Alexander Macfarren (18131887)
Hermann von Helmholtz (18211894)
Anton Bruckner (18241896)
Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley (18251889)
Rudolf Westphal (18261892)
Franois-Auguste Gevaert (18281908)
Mathis Lussy (18281910)
Salomon Jadassohn (18311902)
Heinrich Bellermann (18321903)
Arthur Joachim von Oettingen (18361920)
Ebenezer Prout (18351909)
Thodore Dubois (18371924)
John Stainer (18401901)
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (18401893)
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (18441908)
Bernhard Ziehn (18451912)
Carl Stumpf (18481936)
Hugo Riemann (18491919)
Vincent d'Indy (18511931)
Sergey Ivanovich Taneev (18561915)
Ludwig Thuille (18611907)
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20th century
Stephan Krehl (18641924)
mile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950)
Andr Gedalge (18681926)
Alfred Lorenz (18681939)
Heinrich Schenker (18681935)
August Otto Halm (18691929)
Rudolf Louis (18701949)
Charles Herbert Kitson (18741944)
Arnold Schoenberg (18741951)
Donald Tovey (18751940)
Boleslav Leopoldovich Yavorsky (18771942)
Marion Bauer (18821955)
Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev (18841949)
Ernst Kurth (18861946)
Nadia Boulanger (18871979)
Adele T. Katz (18871979)
Paul Hindemith (18951963)
Howard Hanson (18961981)
Roger Sessions (18961985)
Henry Cowell (18971965)
Felix Salzer (19041986)
George Perle (19152009)
Milton Babbitt (19162011)
Edward T. Cone (19172004)
Allen Forte (born 1926)
Harold Powers (19282007)
David Lewin (19332003)
Benjamin Boretz (born 1934)
Edward Aldwell (19382006)
Fred Lerdahl (born 1943)
William Caplin (born 1948)
David Carson Berry (born 1968)
Dmitri Tymoczko (born 1969)
21st century
Carl Schachter
Richard Cohn
Victor Kofi Agawu
References
Notes
Sources
Damschroder, David and David Russell Williams. Music theory from Zarlino to Schenker : a bibliography and
guide. Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1990. ISBN 0-918728-99-1
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Williams, David Russell and C. Matthew Balensuela. Music theory from Boethius to Zarlino: a bibliography and
guide. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-57647-157-9
Article Sources and Contributors
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Article Sources and Contributors
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