Thomas Morley
Sign in to saveEnglish composer, organist and editor
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1557
- Died
- 1603?
- Works
- 41
Top works
- Madrigals of Thomas Morley and John Wilbye
- Plain and easy introduction to practical music, set down in form of a dialogue ...
- Nine fantasias of two parts
- Pavan
- A plain and easy introduction to practical music
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1557
- Active to
- 1602-10
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Discography
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Thomas Morley (1557 or 1558 – October 1602) was an English composer, theorist, editor and organist of the Renaissance, and the foremost member of the English Madrigal School. He was the most famous composer of secular music in Elizabethan England, and the composer of the only surviving contemporary settings of verse by Shakespeare. Morley was born in Norwich, in East Anglia, the son of a brewer. Most likely he was a singer in the local cathedral from his boyhood, and he became master of chorist
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Thomas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England
- Place of birth
- Norwich
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- music theorist
- Educated at
- University of Oxford
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Student of
- William Byrd
- Genre
- anthem
- Instrument
- pipe organ
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- date of birth
- 1559-00-00
- Commons category
- Thomas Morley
- Commons Creator page
- Thomas Morley
- name in native language
- Thomas Morley
- date of death
- 1602-01-01
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Works in European collections
6 objects attributed to Thomas Morley, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
