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4 days ago · William Byrd, English organist and composer of the Shakespearean age who is best known for his development of the English madrigal. He also wrote virginal and organ music that elevated the English keyboard style.
William Byrd: greatest works and some of the best recordings of his music - Classical Music. The Odyssean Ensemble's director Colm Carey on the influence of Byrd and the gems to be found within his somewhat neglected output.
This is a list of the musical compositions by William Byrd, one of the most celebrated English composers of the Renaissance .
William Byrd ( / bɜːrd /; c. 1540 – 4 July 1623) 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. [1]
Some of his most famous works include the song books released at the end of the 1500s. These included the 1588 collection that Byrd named Psalms, Sonnets and Songs of Sadness and Pietie, and the 1589 compositions collectively recognized as Songs of Sundrie Natures.
Jul 4, 2023 · Byrd: Mass For Five Voices & Other Works. The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park. Based around Byrd's largest Mass setting, for five voices, this anniversary-year collection from the Gesualdo Six also includes a selection of his anthems, many with a penitential mood responding to the sense of exile felt by English Catholics in the Tudor era.
The Collected Works of William Byrd, edited by E. H. Fellowes, revised by Thurston Dart and others (London: Stainer & Bell, 1937-1950). Songs of Sundry Natures, edited by Fellowes, revised by Philip Brett, The English Madrigalists 15 (London: Stainer & Bell, 1962).
