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John Dowland [a] ( c. 1563 – buried 20 February 1626) was an English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer. He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as "Come, heavy sleep", "Come again", "Flow my tears", "I saw my Lady weepe", "Now o now I needs must part", and "In darkness let me dwell".
Jul 8, 2024 · John Dowland was an English composer, virtuoso lutenist, and skilled singer, one of the most famous musicians of his time. Nothing is known of Dowland’s childhood, but in 1580 he went to Paris as a “servant” to Sir Henry Cobham, the ambassador to the French court.
Oct 26, 2015 · John Dowland (b. 1563–d. 1623) was an internationally known English musician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. He was one of the most renowned lutenists of his time, and his compositions were disseminated widely.
Feb 12, 2014 · Live, HD video from the "Saturday Night at the Movies" concert presented by the Early Music ensemble Voices of Music, January, 2014, in San Francisco. Dowland's song, also know as "Lachrimae ...
John Dowland was an English composer of the Renaissance period. He is most famous for his melancholic songs and instrumental music. Due to lack of historical archives, there is very little that is known about Dowland’s early life.
Jun 11, 2018 · John Dowland >The British composer and lute virtuoso John Dowland (1562-1626) was the >leading English lutanist composer of his time. A sensitive, original >melodist, he found his forte in pensive song-soliloquys.
John Dowland (pronounced to rhyme with 'Roland') (1563 – February 20, 1626) was an English, possibly Irish -born composer and lutenist. He is best known today for his song 'Flow, my tears'.
Jan 5, 2010 · John Dowland (1563-1626) was an important instrumental composer at a time when the most serious music was vocal, and he was a popular composer at a time when there was no dichotomy between...
The Folger collection has always been rich in 16th- and 17th-century music, and one composer especially well represented is the English lutenist John Dowland. This Dowland setting of a Fulke Greville sonnet, “Who ever thinks or hopes of love for love,” is from the 1597 first edition of Dowland’s First booke of songes, an immediate success ...
John Dowland was an English composer, singer, and lutenist. Little is known about his childhood beyond the facts that he was born in 1563 and was a child prodigy. It was once believed that he was Irish and born in Dublin but some claimed that he was born in Westminster.
