classical composer
Orlando Gibbons.
English composer, virginalist and organist (1583-1625)
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About Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons was an English composer and keyboard player who was one of the last masters of the English Virginalist School and English Madrigal School. The best known member of a musical family dynasty, by the 1610s he was the leading composer and organist in England, with a career cut short by his untimely death in 1625. As a result, Gibbons's oeuvre was not as large as that of his contemporaries, like the elder William Byrd, but he made considerable contributions to many genres of his time. Musicologists characterize his music as exemplifying the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque periods.
Everything about Orlando Gibbons →- Occupation
- classical composer, organist, composer, pianist
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England
- Born
- December 25, 1583, 1583
- Died
- June 5, 1625, 1625