William Lawes (жанры:baroque, classical, renaissance, english, composer)

John Taverner (c. 1490 – 18 October 1545) was an English composer and organist, regarded as the most important English composer of his era.Taverner was the first Organist and Master of the Choristers at Christ Church, Oxford, appointed by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in 1526. The college had been founded in 1525 by Cardinal Wolsey, and was then known as Cardinal College. Immediately before this, Taverner had been a clerk fellow at the Collegiate Church of Tattershall, Lincolnshire. In 1528 he was reprimanded for his (probably minor) involvement with Lutherans, but escaped punishment for being "but a musician". Wolsey fell from favour in 1529, and in 1530 Taverner left the college.As... подробнее