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3 unusual facts about Henry Lawes


1655 in poetry

Henry Lawes, The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues, for One, Two, and Three Voyces, verse and music (see also Ayres and Dialogues 1653, 1658)

1658 in poetry

Henry Lawes, Ayres, and Dialogues, for One, Two, and Three Voyces, verse and music (see also Ayres and Dialogues 1653, The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues 1655)

Henry Lawes

He was born at Dinton in Wiltshire, and received his musical education from John Cooper, better known under his Italian pseudonym Giovanni Coperario, a famous composer of the day.


Anne Cromwell's Virginal Book

However composers of some of the other pieces can be identified from other sources, and include John Bull, John Dowland and Henry Lawes.

Elizabeth Roger's Virginal Book

These include: William Byrd, with his Battel suite, dating from at least 1591; Orlando Gibbons; Henry Lawes and his brother William; Robert Johnson; and Nicholas Lanier.


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