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Marissa Towell
November 25 2013
High School Music
 1583- Born in Oxford, United Kingdom
 1596- Orlando became a member of the King’s College
Choir at Cambridge
 1603- Gibbons became a member of the Chapel Royal
 1605- Appointed its organist
 June 5, 1625- Died in Canterbury, United Kingdom
• Considered the leading English composer of his
generation
 Positions Held:
 Organist of the Royal Chapel
 Keyboard player in the privy chamber of the all-
important court of Prince Charles
 Organist at Westminster Abbey.
 Holding the position among the private musicians of
Prince Charles (King Charles I) helped to inaugurate
one of the greatest eras in chamber music that
Western music has seen.
 He wrote:
 Church Music
 Secular Vocal Music (Silver Swan)
 Instrumental Music
 Keyboard Music
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5jaPU3EoWw
 http://www.allmusic.com/artist/orlando-gibbons-
mn0001473123/biography
 http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/gibbons.php
 http://www.naxos.com/person/Orlando_Gibbons/272
08.htm
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