Orlando Gibbons
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Reformation: Keyboard works by William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, John Bull & Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Drop, Drop, Slow Tears
English Motets: From Dunstaple to Gibbons
Passages. Piano Evocations
English Choral Music. Motets and Anthems from Byrd to Elgar
I was Glad - Vijf eeuwen Engelse kathedraalmuziek
O Lord, in Thy Wrath Rebuke Me Not
The Silver Swan
Orlando Gibbons: Etenim Apta Operum Compositio
Size Matt’reth Not: The Compleat Fantazias for 2 Treble Viols & the 3 & 4-Part Consorts for the 'Great Dooble Base' by Orlando Gibbons
Size Matt’reth Not - The Compleat Fantazias for 2 Treble Viols & the 3 & 4-part Consorts for the 'Great Dooble Base' by Orlando Gibbons (bap.1583-1625)
Orlando Gibbons: Masks, Dances & Variations for Piano
About this artist
English composer and keyboard player, born at Oxford (1583-1625), he is recognized as one of the most important English composers of the early 17th century.
His father, William Gibbons, was also a musician appointed in Cambridge, while his elder brother, , was also a composer.
In 1605 Orlando Gibbons was appointed to the prestigious position of organist of the Chapel Royal; in 1619 he succeeded Walter Earle as "one of his Majesty's musician"; in 1623 he became organist of Westminster Abbey.
He composed secular and sacred vocal music, as well as instrumental music for solo keyboard or consort.