Famous music theorists

person who studies music theory

282 people

All Alive Deceased
Aristoxenus

Aristoxenus

Deceased
Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev

Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev

1856 – 1915 · Age 58
Deceased
Nicomachus

Nicomachus

0060 – 0120 · Age 60
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Hermann of Reichenau

Hermann of Reichenau

1013 – 1054 · Age 41
Deceased
Michael Praetorius

Michael Praetorius

1571 – 1621 · Age 50
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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

1562 – 1621 · Age 59
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Johann Joachim Quantz

Johann Joachim Quantz

1697 – 1773 · Age 76
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Vincent d'Indy

Vincent d'Indy

1851 – 1931 · Age 79
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Giulio Caccini

1551 – 1618 · Age 67
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Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples

Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples

1450 – 1537 · Age 87
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Harry Partch

Harry Partch

1901 – 1974 · Age 73
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Luigi Russolo

Luigi Russolo

1885 – 1947 · Age 61
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Philippe de Vitry

1291 – 1361 · Age 69
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Vincenzo Galilei

1520 – 1591 · Age 71
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Pierre Schaeffer

Pierre Schaeffer

1910 – 1995 · Age 85
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Anton Reicha

Anton Reicha

1770 – 1836 · Age 66
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Hugo Riemann

Hugo Riemann

1849 – 1919 · Age 69
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Johann Crüger

Johann Crüger

1598 – 1662 · Age 63
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Carl Stumpf

Carl Stumpf

1848 – 1936 · Age 88
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Boris Asafyev

1884 – 1949 · Age 64
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Johann Mattheson

Johann Mattheson

1681 – 1764 · Age 82
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Giovanni Battista Martini

Giovanni Battista Martini

1706 – 1784 · Age 78
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Francesco Geminiani

Francesco Geminiani

1687 – 1762 · Age 74
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Milton Babbitt

1916 – 2011 · Age 94
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Robert Fludd

Robert Fludd

1574 – 1637 · Age 63
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q16031530