Nathaniel Giles

Nathaniel Giles (also Gyles ; * around 1558 in or near Worcester , † January 24, 1633 in Windsor ) was an English organist and composer.

He was the son of the organist Thomas Giles and worked after his training in Oxford as an organist at the cathedral of his hometown. In 1585 he was called to St George's Chapel in Windsor, next to Westminster Abbey, burial church of the English kings. He worked here as an organist and choirmaster and held this position until his death. At the same time he worked from 1596 as a boys' choir director at the Chapel Royal in London .

He mainly composed vocal music, including 20 anthems and six motets in Latin.

literature

• Jeffrey Pulver: A biographical dictionary of old English music , Ayer Publishing, 1969, ISBN 0833728679 , pp. 208-211 ( limited preview in Google book search).
• WHH (William H. Huse?): Giles, Nathaniel , in: Sir George Grove : A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (AD 1450-1889) . Volume 1. MacMillan & Co., London, New York 1900, pp. 595-596 ( digitized ).
• Giles, Nathaniel , in: Don Michael Randel: The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music . Harvard University Press 1996, ISBN 0674372999 , p. 309 ( limited preview in Google book search).
• Neville Wridgway: Giles, Nathaniel (c.1558-1634). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004