Thomas Weelkes

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Thomas Weelkes (* 1576 ; † 1623 ) was an English composer and organist of the late Renaissance .

Weelkes was organist at Winchester College between 1598 and about 1601 and received a Bachelor of Music degree from Oxford . In 1603 he got a lucrative position at the cathedral in Chichester , composed church music and married a wealthy woman. His recently published book of sonorous madrigals was one of the most important in the English tradition. He was dismissed from church service for improper behavior and drinking . Weelkes' importance in English music history is based on madrigals as well as on his church music . In his madrigal work, he differed from the contemporary English taste in his preference for harmonic and contrapuntal boldness.

literature

  • Rolf W. Stoll: With fear doth freeze, with love doth fry . World and self-awareness in a madrigal of the Elizabethan age. In: Rudolf Faber et al .: Festschrift Ulrich Siegele, Kassel 1991, pp. 67–86.
  • John Burrow: Classical Music , Dorling Kindersley Verlag, p. 85

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Individual proof

  1. ^ John Burrow: Classical Music , Dorling Kindersley Verlag, p. 85