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Thomas Morley

1557 - 1602

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Thomas Morley (1557 – early October 1602) was an English composer, theorist, singer and organist of late Renaissance music. He was one of the foremost members of the English Madrigal School. Referring to the strong Italian influence on the English madrigal, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians states that Morley was "chiefly responsible for grafting the Italian shoot on to the native stock and initiating the curiously brief but brilliant flowering of the madrigal that constitutes one of the most colourful episodes in the history of English music." Living in London at the same time as Shakespeare, Morley was the most famous composer of secular music in Elizabethan England. He and Robert Johnson are the composers of the only surviving contemporary settings of verse by Shakespeare. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Morley is the 768th most popular composer (up from 1,158th in 2019), the 2,396th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,555th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular British Composer.

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Among composers, Thomas Morley ranks 768 out of 1,451. Before him are Goffredo Petrassi, Joseph Weigl, Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, Luigi Denza, Sigismondo d'India, and Joseph Marx. After him are André Caplet, Sigismund von Neukomm, George Onslow, Alexander Tcherepnin, Vittoria Aleotti, and Charles Tomlinson Griffes.

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Among people born in 1557, Thomas Morley ranks 14. Before him are Oda Nobutada, Balthasar Gérard, Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg, Lew Sapieha, Irina Godunova, and Leandro Bassano. After him are Öküz Mehmed Pasha, and Jean de Sponde. Among people deceased in 1602, Thomas Morley ranks 11. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Emilio de' Cavalieri, Kobayakawa Hideaki, Ii Naomasa, Li Zhi, and Catherine of Brandenburg-Küstrin. After him are Hedwig of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Juan de Fuca, Caspar Peucer, and Kanijeli Siyavuş Pasha.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Morley ranks 2,396 out of 8,785. Before him are James H. Wilkinson (1919), Vera Brittain (1893), Veronica Cartwright (1949), Dora Carrington (1893), Richard Hughes (1900), and Richard of Chichester (1197). After him are Tony Judt (1948), Stuart Lewis-Evans (1930), Guy Edwards (1942), Konstantinos Paspatis (1878), David Tennant (1971), and Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Morley ranks 32. Before him are John Bull (1562), John Taverner (1490), Malcolm Arnold (1921), Arthur Sullivan (1842), Jeremiah Clarke (1674), and John Stanley (1712). After him are Stanley Myers (1930), Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892), York Bowen (1884), Michael Tippett (1905), Rebecca Clarke (1886), and John Tavener (1944).

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