Byzantine composers

Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)

Byzantine Emperor

Kassia, Cassia, Kassiane, or Kassiani (, ; – c.865) was a Byzantine-Greek composer, hymnographer and poet. She holds a unique place in Byzantine music as the only known woman whose music appears in the Byzantine liturgy. Approximately fifty of her hymns are extant, most of which are stichera, though at least 26 have uncertain attribution. The authenticity issues are due to many hymns being anonymous, and others ascribed to different authors in different manuscripts. She was an abbess of a convent in the west of Constantinople.

Byzantine saint

Greek hymnographer

Christian bishop and saint

Byzantine composer; saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church

Greek-Orthodox composer and teacher, phanariot

Archbishop of Thessalonica (d. 832)

Greek cantor, Teacher at the Patriarchal Music School

Byzantine composer

Byzantine hymnographer and writer on music