17th-century English male musicians

The list 17th-century English male musicians includes Henry Purcell, Thomas Weelkes, John Dowland, William Byrd and Henry Eccles. The list consists of 90 members.

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Henry Purcell

English baroque composer

Overview: Henry Purcell (c.September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer. Although he incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements, Purcell's was a uniquely English form of Baroque music. He is ...

Date of birth: 1659

Date of death: 21 November 1695

Age: 36 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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Tuberculosis deaths in England 183T

British male organists 680T

Male organists 2,110T
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Thomas Weelkes

English composer

Overview: Thomas Weelkes (baptised 25 October 1576 – 30 November 1623) was an English composer and organist. He became organist of Winchester College in 1598, moving to Chichester Cathedral. His works are ...

Date of birth: 25 October 1576

Date of death: 30 November 1623

Age: 47 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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British male organists 680T

Male organists 2,110T

English Baroque composers 115T
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John Dowland

English composer

Overview: John Dowland (1563 – buried 20 February 1626) was an English or possibly Irish Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer. He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as "Come, heavy sleep", "Come ...

Date of birth: 1563

Date of death: 20 February 1626

Age: 62 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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English Baroque composers 121T

16th-century classical composers 39T

Composers of the Tudor period 73T
4.

William Byrd

British composer

Overview: William Byrd (birth date variously given as c.1539/40 or 1543 – 4 July 1623) was an English composer of the Renaissance. Widely considered to be one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance and one ...

Date of birth: 1543

Date of death: 4 July 1623

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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Composers of the Tudor period 73T

16th-century English composers 89T

16th-century English musicians 26T
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Henry Eccles

English composer

Overview: Henry (Henri) Eccles (1670–1742) was an English composer.

Date of birth: 1670

Date of death: 1742

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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18th-century male musicians 989T

English Baroque composers 115T

17th-century English composers 98T
6.

John Amner

English composer

Overview: John Amner (1579–1641) was an English composer.

Date of birth: 1579

Date of death: 1641

Age: 61 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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British male organists 680T

Organists of Ely Cathedral 15T

Male organists 2,110T
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Francis Pilkington

English composer

Overview: Francis Pilkington (ca. 1565 – 1638) was an English classical composer, lutenist and singer, of the Renaissance and Baroque period. Pilkington received a B.Mus. degree from Oxford in 1595. In 1602 he became ...

Date of birth: 1565

Date of death: 1638

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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English Baroque composers 121T

Composers of the Tudor period 73T

16th-century English composers 96T
8.

Peter Philips

English composer

Overview: Peter Philips (also Phillipps, Phillips, Pierre Philippe, Pietro Philippi, Petrus Philippus; c.1560–1628) was an eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest exiled to Flanders. He was one of ...

Date of birth: 1560

Date of death: 1628

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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English Baroque composers 121T

16th-century English Roman Catholic priests 212T

Composers of the Tudor period 73T
9.

John Wilbye

English composer

Overview: John Wilbye (baptized 7 March 1574 – September 1638) was an English madrigal composer.

Date of birth: 7 March 1574

Date of death: 1638

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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English Baroque composers 115T

People from Brome, Suffolk 7T

Composers of the Tudor period 73T
10.

Nicholas Lanier

English composer and musician

Overview: Nicholas Lanier, sometimes Laniere (baptised 10 September 1588 – buried 24 February 1666) was an English composer and musician; the first to hold the title of Master of the King's Music from 1625 to 1666 ...

Date of birth: 10 September 1588

Date of death: 24 February 1666

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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Masters of the King's Music 15T

English Baroque composers 115T

English male painters 2,044T
11.

Matthew Locke

English Baroque composer

Overview: Matthew Locke (c. 1621 – August 1677) was an English Baroque composer and music theorist.

Date of birth: 1621

Date of death: 1677

Age: 55 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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17th-century English classical composers 69T

17th-century male musicians 750T

People educated at Exeter Cathedral School 13T
12.

John Holmes (composer)

British composer

Overview: John Holmes (died 1629) was an English cathedral musician and Renaissance composer. His madrigal Thus Bonny-boots The Birthday Celebrated was included in The Triumphs of Oriana, a collection of vocal ...

Date of death: 1629

Nationality: English

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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16th-century English composers 89T

17th-century English composers 98T

English male classical composers 577T
13.

Christopher Gibbons

English composer and organist

Overview: Christopher Gibbons (bapt. 22 August 1615 – 20 October 1676) was an English composer and organist of the early Baroque period. He was the second son, and first surviving child of the composer Orlando Gibbons ...

Date of birth: 1615

Date of death: 1676

Age: 60 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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British male organists 680T

Children of the Chapel Royal 11T

Male organists 2,110T
14.

Philip Rosseter

English composer and musician

Overview: Philip Rosseter (1568 – 5 May 1623) was an English composer and musician, as well as a theatrical manager. His family seems to have been from Somerset or Lincolnshire, he may have been employed with the ...

Date of birth: 1568

Date of death: 5 May 1623

Age: 54 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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English Baroque composers 115T

16th-century English composers 89T

17th-century English composers 98T
15.

John Ward (composer)

English composer

Overview: John Ward (1590–1638) was an English composer. He trained as a singer in Canterbury and went on to compose religious and secular works.

Date of birth: 1571

Date of death: 1638

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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English Baroque composers 115T

Composers of the Tudor period 73T

17th-century English composers 98T
16.

Thomas Lupo the elder

English Renaissance and Baroque composer

Overview: Thomas Lupo (baptised 7 August 1571 – probably December 1627) was an English composer and viol player of the late Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. Along with Orlando Gibbons, John Coprario, and Alfonso ...

Date of birth: 7 August 1571

Date of death: 1 December 1627

Age: 56 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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Lupo family 5T

English Baroque composers 115T

Composers of the Tudor period 73T
17.

Giles Farnaby

English composer

Overview: Giles Farnaby (c. 1563 – November 1640) was an English composer and virginalist whose music spans the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque period.

Date of birth: 1563

Date of death: 1640

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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English Baroque composers 115T

Composers of the Tudor period 73T

16th-century English composers 89T
18.

William Brade

English composer (1560–1630)

Overview: William Brade (1560 – 26 February 1630) was an English composer, violinist, and viol player of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, mainly active in northern Germany. He was the first En ...

Date of birth: 1560

Date of death: 1630

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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British male conductors (music) 599T

British male violinists 207T

English Baroque composers 115T
19.

Robert Jones (composer)

British composer

Overview: Robert Jones (c. 1577 – 1617) was an English lutenist and composer, the most prolific of the English lute song composers (along with Thomas Campion).

Date of birth: 1577

Date of death: 1617

Age: 39 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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16th-century English composers 89T

17th-century English composers 98T

English male composers 230T
20.

John Jenkins (composer)

English composer

Overview: John Jenkins (1592–1678), was an English composer who was born in Maidstone, Kent and who died at Kimberley, Norfolk.

Date of birth: 1592

Date of death: 1678

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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People from Kimberley, Norfolk 9T

English Baroque composers 115T

17th-century English composers 98T