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

Leo VI the Wise
Byzantine Emperor

Kassia
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.
Theodore the Studite
Byzantine saint

Romanos the Melodist
Greek hymnographer
Andrew of Crete
Christian bishop and saint
John Koukouzeles
Byzantine composer; saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church

Petros Bereketis
Greek-Orthodox composer and teacher, phanariot
Iosif Ispovednik
Archbishop of Thessalonica (d. 832)

Petros Peloponnesios
Greek cantor, Teacher at the Patriarchal Music School
Manuel Chrysaphes
Byzantine composer
John Kladas
Byzantine hymnographer and writer on music