William Byrd
Born: c. 1540, London
Died: 4th July 1623, Stondon Massey
Nationality: English
William Byrd was an English Renaissance composer. Considered among the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he had a profound influence on composers both from his native country and on the Continent. He is often considered along with John Dunstaple and Henry Purcell as one of England's most important composers of early music.
Byrd wrote in many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard (the so-called Virginalist school), and consort music. He produced sacred music for Anglican services, but during the 1570s became a Roman Catholic, and wrote Catholic sacred music later in his life.
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Further Reading: Byrd
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Piers Connor Kennedy on Nowel el el
11th Dec 2025
The composer and singer talks about his new works featured on Ensemble Pro Victoria's latest album, Nowel.
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Mishka Rushdie Momen - Reformation
5th Jul 2024
Mishka Rushdie Momen makes a highly enjoyable Hyperion debut, playing Renaissance keyboard music on a modern Steinway grand piano, with subtlety of tone and phrasing that brings new perspective to the music of Byrd, Sweelinck, Gibbons and Bull.
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Popular Works: Byrd
- Ah silly Soul (15)
- Ave verum Corpus (88)
- Civitas Sancti Tui (17)
- Come to me, grief, for ever (13)
- Fantasia (22)
- Galliard (15)
- Haec dies a 6 (Cantiones Sacrae 1591) (27)
- Hughe Ashton's Ground (12)
- Infelix ego (13)
- John come kiss me now (18)
- Justorum animae (20)
- La Volta (21)
- Laetentur coeli (16)
- Laudibus in sanctis (23)
- Lullaby, my sweet little baby (43)
- Mass for five voices (35)
- Mass for four voices (57)
- Mass for three voices (15)
- Miserere mei (19)
- Ne irascaris Domine (29)
- O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth (37)
- O Lux beata Trinitas (15)
- O magnum mysterium (17)
- Pavan (23)
- Pavan "Sir William Petre" (12)
- Prevent Us, O Lord (12)
- Sellinger's Round (17)
- Sing joyfully (37)
- Teach me, O Lord (15)
- The Bells (29)
- The Carman's Whistle (22)
- The Great Service (18)
- The Queen's Alman (27)
- The sweet and merry month of May (12)
- Though Amaryllis dance in green (14)
- Tristitia et anxietas (12)
- Ut re mi fa sol la (20)
- Vigilate (from Cantiones sacrae 1589) (32)
- Walsingham (13)
- Ye sacred muses - an elegy for Thomas Tallis (30)
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Coming soon. The Four Elements
Ensemble Altera, Sumei Bao-Smith (soprano), Christopher Lowrey, Andrew Bearden Brown, Rachel Garrepy Beberwyck, Elijah McCormack (soprano), Harrison Hintzsche, Simon Whiteley
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Choir of St John's College Cambridge, Christopher Robinson
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Coming soon. William Byrd in Italy: An Imagined Journey
Freddie James (organ, harpsichord)
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Coming soon. The Witch Trials
Kantos Chamber Choir, Ellie Slorach
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