William Byrd (Composer)
Born: c. 1540, Lincoln
Died: 4th July 1623, Stondon Massey
Nationality: English
William Byrd was an English composer of the Renaissance. Widely considered to be one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance and one of the greatest British composers, he had a huge influence on composers both from his native England and those on the continent. He 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. Although he produced sacred music for Anglican services, sometime during the 1570s he became a Roman Catholic and wrote Catholic sacred music later in his life.
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Recording of the Week,
Byrd and Bull from Kit Armstrong
The American pianist makes the case for considering the two Tudor virginalists William Byrd and John Bull as the founding fathers of the solo piano genre.
Recording of the Week,
Byrd and more from the Magdalena Consort and friends
The Magdalena Consort, Fretwork and His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts join forces for a second volume of English verse-anthems presented in glorious instrumental Technicolor.
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Popular Works: Byrd
- Ave verum Corpus (85)
- Beata Viscera (11)
- Cantiones Sacrae 1589 (11)
- Cantiones Sacrae I (12)
- Christe qui Lux (14)
- Civitas Sancti Tui (20)
- Come to me, grief, for ever (11)
- Earl of Oxford's March (12)
- Fantasia (22)
- Galliard (15)
- Haec dies a 6 (Cantiones Sacrae 1591) (28)
- Infelix ego (11)
- John come kiss me now (14)
- Justorum animae (14)
- La Volta (17)
- Laetentur coeli (20)
- Laudibus in sanctis (23)
- Lullaby, my sweet little baby (34)
- Mass for five voices (33)
- Mass for four voices (49)
- Mass for three voices (15)
- Miserere mei (16)
- Ne irascaris Domine (25)
- O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth (28)
- O Lux beata Trinitas (14)
- O magnum mysterium (15)
- Pavan (20)
- Pavana "The Earle of Salisbury" (14)
- Prevent Us, O Lord (11)
- Sellinger's Round (18)
- Sing joyfully (38)
- Teach me, O Lord (13)
- The Bells (27)
- The Carman's Whistle (24)
- The Great Service (16)
- The Queen's Alman (27)
- Though Amaryllis dance in green (15)
- Ut re mi fa sol la (18)
- Vigilate (from Cantiones sacrae 1589) (31)
- Ye sacred muses - an elegy for Thomas Tallis (20)
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