biography
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| lived:
| (1567–1620)
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| biography:
| Physician, poet, and composer, born in Witham, Essex, SE England, UK. He studied at Cambridge and at the University of Caen, France, and set his own lyrics to music. He prepared masques presented at court, 1607–17. As well as poetry in Latin and English he left several books of ‘ayres’ for voice and lute. Today he is primarily remembered as a fine poet, whose literary output is inseparable from his musical composition. |
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