Orlando Gibbons |
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| 1596,
chorister at King's College, Cambridge; 1604, organist of the Chapel. In 1619 he was made one of the king's 'musicians for the virginalls', and in 1623 organist of Westminster, where he conducted the music at the funeral of James I. He died at Canterbury while attending the new king who had gone to meet his bride from France and was buried in the Cathedral, where there is now a commemorative plaque and bust. Little of his music was printed in his lifetime. There are two services (F and D-minor) and about forty anthems of which more than half are verse anthems. There are no Latin works. |
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