[alexasmyths]

Yes, technically there were 'people who wrote music' but we wouldn't really call them composers, and we were not attributing anything to them.

And it wasn't a 'maslow' thing - it was that we had yet to develop proper instruments, scales, etc. etc.

FYI Music during about that time was mostly Gregorian chanting and what not - and for a time music was banned by the church, at other times it was only allowed to be made 'for God' type thing. Come to think of it there are I think some composers and attributions but minimal stuff. We don't 'remember them' because what they did was not remarkable like Beethoven.