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Thomas Morley

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English 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
baroqueclassicalcomposerrenaissance

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Total plays
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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

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date of birth
1559-00-00
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name in native language
Thomas Morley
date of death
1602-01-01
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6 objects attributed to Thomas Morley, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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