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| Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), English composer and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean periods, a leading composer in the England of his day.Born in Oxford, between 1596 and 1598 he sang in the choir of King's College, Cambridge, then he entered the university in 1598 and achieved the degree of Bachelor of Music in 1606. James I appointed him a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, where he served as an organist from at least 1615 until his death. In 1625 he became senior organist at the Chapel Royal, with Thomas Tomkins as junior organist. |
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 | orlando gibbons - silver swan orlando gibbons's madrigal the silver swan, who living had no note, when death approached, unlocked her silent throat. leaning her breast upon the reedy shore, thus sang her first and last, and sang no more: "farewell, all joys! o death, come close mine eyes! "more geese than swans now live, more fools than wise. |  | Glenn Gould plays Orlando Gibbons - "Lord of Salisbury" Orlando Gibbons (1583 - 1625) belongs to the generation of English composers that followed that of William Byrd, forty years his senior, who had died in 1623. He was a chorister at King's College, Cambridge, where his elder brother was Master of the Choristers, and later became a gentleman of the Chapel Royal, which he served as an organist and to which he later added the position of organist at Westminster Abbey. He wrote music for the Church of England, madrigals, consort music and keyboard works. According to several interviews, he was also Goulds favorite composer (even if he alternated with JS Bach). |  | Orlando Gibbons - Madrigals "The silver swan" The Hilliard Ensemble |  | Glenn Gould plays Orlando Gibbons - Fantasy in C major Orlando Gibbons (1583 - 1625) belongs to the generation of English composers that followed that of William Byrd, forty years his senior, who had died in 1623. He was a chorister at King's College, Cambridge, where his elder brother was Master of the Choristers, and later became a gentleman of the Chapel Royal, which he served as an organist and to which he later added the position of organist at Westminster Abbey. He wrote music for the Church of England, madrigals, consort music and keyboard works. | |
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