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Matthew Locke

1621 - 1677

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Matthew Locke (c. 1621 – August 1677) was an English Baroque composer and music theorist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Matthew Locke is the 1,000th most popular composer (down from 987th in 2019), the 3,093rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,715th in 2019) and the 45th most popular British Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Matthew Locke ranks 1,000 out of 1,451Before him are Balys Dvarionas, Friedrich Silcher, Arthur Benjamin, Attilio Ariosti, Harrison Birtwistle, and Zacharia Paliashvili. After him are William Christie, Wacław of Szamotuły, Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Trevor Jones, Vasily Safonov, and Mykhailo Verbytskyi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1621, Matthew Locke ranks 16Before him are Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Maximilian Henry of Bavaria, Isaac van Ostade, Shi Lang, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, and Jan Baptist Weenix. After him are Andrew Marvell, Bohuslav Balbín, John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, Wacław Potocki, and Henry Vaughan. Among people deceased in 1677, Matthew Locke ranks 15Before him are Henry Oldenburg, William Louis, Duke of Württemberg, Aert van der Neer, William, Margrave of Baden-Baden, James Harrington, and Robert Cambert.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Matthew Locke ranks 3,094 out of 8,785Before him are Jim Ratcliffe (1952), Paul Nurse (1949), Imogen Heap (1977), John Playfair (1748), Lady Sarah Chatto (1964), and Christopher O'Neill (1974). After him are Laura Mulvey (1941), Janet Baker (1933), Robin Milner (1934), Ronald Speirs (1920), Philip Stone (1924), and Alex Higgins (1949).

Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Matthew Locke ranks 45Before him are Frank Bridge (1879), Hubert Parry (1848), Arnold Bax (1883), Charles Burney (1726), John Rutter (1945), and Harrison Birtwistle (1934). After him are William Sterndale Bennett (1816), Harry Gregson-Williams (1961), Richard Addinsell (1904), James MacMillan (1959), Dave Stewart (1950), and William Lawes (1602).