Byrd, William

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Basic data

  1. 1543 (other sources: 1538) in Lincolnshire
  2. July 6, 1623 (other sources: July 4, 1623) in Stondon Massey (Essex)
  3. Komponist, Organist
  4. London

Iconography

An undated etching of Byrd by Gerard Vandergucht (after Nicola Francesco Haym) (Source: Wikimedia)
Wenceslas Hollar, Lincoln Cathedral from the west (before 1677) (Source: Wikimedia)
The Darnley portrait of Elizabeth I, c. 1575, the year she granted Byrd and Thomas Tallis a monopoly on printing music (Source: Wikimedia)
Parthenia, published in 1612 (Source: Wikimedia)

Biographical information from the WeGA

Bedeutender englischer Komponist der Shakespeare-Zeit und Kollege von Tallis an der Chapel Royal in London.

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