Below is a list of Gentile composers who wrote music on Jewish, or at least Hebrew, themes, or who have some (conscious) connection to Jewish music or a Jewish composer of the time. Some were commissioned, some were written out of interest, and some for a religious or cultural reason. This list is not yet complete, but gives a survey of the works composed at that time.


SURNAME
FORENAME
DATES
WHERE
NOTES
Banchieri
Adriano
1568-1634
Bologna, Italy
Wrote La Pazzia Senile (1598), whose subject matter makes his interest in Jewish life clear, and Mercante Bresciano et Hebrei, which includes the madrigal La Sinagoga (1605, Venice)
Carissimi
Giacomo
1605-74
Rome, Italy
Wrote Yiftach (Jepthe, c.1648)
Grossi
Carlo
1634-88
Venice, Italy
Wrote Cantata Ebraica in Dialogo (c.1681), for Hoshana Rabbah and commissioned by the Watchers of the Dawn fraternity.
di Lasso
Orlando
1530/32-94
France & Munich, Germany
Wrote a setting of Psalm 137, and the madrigal Ecco la nimph'ebraica chiamata (1581)
Lidarti
Christian Joseph
1730-c.93
Viennese-Italian
Wrote the oratorio Ester (early 1770s) with Hebrew text by the Italian Rabbi Jacob Raphael Saraval. Also wrote three synagogal chants. All for the Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam.
Marcello
Benedetto
1686-1739
Venice, Italy
Several Hebrew melodies are found in Marcello's Estro poetico-harmonico of 1624-26.
Mei
Horacion
fl.18th century
Livorno, Italy
Art music composed for a Jewish wedding in early 18th century.
Saladin
Louis
fl.17th century
Provence, France
Canticum Hebraicum commissioned around 1670 to celebrate a circumcision ceremony of one of Avignon's wealthy Jewish families. Saladin was requested to set music to several religious texts, and the libretto is in Hebrew throughout. He is most remembered today for his association with the Provençal Jewish community and this piece; no other music survives.
Viadana
Ludovico
c.1560-1627
Mantua, Italy
Colleague of Salamone Rossi in Mantua; published the first collection of sacred (Christian) monody, the Cento concerti ecclesiastici of 1602, but many of his settings are remarkably similar to Rossi's.
Weelkes
Thomas
1576-1623
London, UK
Adapted two of Rossi's canzonet's (unattributed) in his Ayeres or Phantasticke Spirites for Three Voices of 1608.