Thomas Morley
Composer
1557 – 1602
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Who was Thomas Morley?
Thomas Morley was an English composer, theorist, editor and organist of the Renaissance, and the foremost member of the English Madrigal School. He was the most famous composer of secular music in Elizabethan England and an organist at St Paul's Cathedral. He and Robert Johnson are the composers of the only surviving contemporary settings of verse by Shakespeare.
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- Born
- 1557
Norwich - Also known as
- Morley, Thomas
- Nationality
- England
- Education
- University of Oxford
- Died
- Oct 1, 1602
London
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on July 23, 2013
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