January 20, 2023 |
Author: Gavin Thomas |
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Thomas Weelkes, a composer from the first Elizabethan age
What’s it all about?
2023 is going to be a big year for English early music thanks to the 400th anniversary of the death of
William Byrd, one of the country’s greatest ever composers, with a raft of celebratory concerts, recordings and scholarly publications planned to mark the event. But spare a thought for fellow Elizabethan composer
Thomas Weelkes, who had the misfortune to die in the same year as Byrd and whose own 400th anniversary is going slightly under the radar as a result.
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