Henry Purcell ( or ; c. 10 September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer.
 Although incorporating Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, Purcell's legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music.
 He is generally considered to be one of the greatest English composers; no other native-born English composer approached his fame until Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton and Benjamin Britten in the 20th century.
Robert Browne Hall (30 June 1858 Bowdoinham, Maine – 8 June 1907), usually known as R. B. Hall, was a leading composer of marches and other music for brass bands.
 A principal American composer of marching music, he was born in Bowdoinham, Maine and seldom left his native state during his lifetime, dying in Portland.
 His music though has traveled around the world.
 He is particularly popular in the United Kingdom, so much so that many lovers of brass band music there mistakenly imagine that Hall is an English composer.
 His celebrated march "Death or Glory", written in 1895 and dedicated to the Tenth Regiment Band in Albany, New York, is a well-known staple of brass band concerts and competitions all over the UK.
Clinton John Whitelaw (born 24 December 1970) is a South African professional golfer.
String Quartet No. 3 in G major, Op.
 94, by English composer Benjamin Britten (191376) was his last completed major work, and his last completed instrumental work.
 It was written in OctoberNovember 1975 during his final illness: the first four movements at his home, The Red House, Aldeburgh, and the fifth during his last visit to Venice, at Hotel Danieli.
 It was dedicated to the musicologist Hans Keller.
 In December 1975, brothers Colin and David Matthews performed it privately for the composer in a piano duet arrangement.
 During September 1976, Britten worked on it with the Amadeus Quartet; who premiered it on 19 December 1976 at the The Maltings, Snape, two weeks after the composer's death.
William Byrd ( ; birth date variously given as c.1539/40 or 1543 – 4 July 1623, was an English composer of the Renaissance.
 He wrote in many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard (the so-called Virginalist school), and consort music.
 He produced sacred music for use in Anglican services, although he himself became a Roman Catholic in later life and wrote Catholic sacred music as well.
Major General John Whitelaw (11 June 1921 – 18 June 2010) was a career officer in the Australian Army who rose to the position of Deputy Chief of the General Staff (1977–78).
 Joining the Army in mid-1939, as a part-time soldier in the Royal Australian Artillery, Whitelaw was later commissioned and served in the Second Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF) during the Second World War, seeing action in New Guinea and Bougainville.
 After the war, he briefly returned to a career as a clerk, before taking up a Regular Army commission in the post war years, which saw him rise to the rank of major general.
 In retirement he was active on many councils and committees.
String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op.
 36, by English composer Benjamin Britten (191376), was written in 1945.
 It was composed in Snape, Suffolk and London, and completed on 14 October.
 The first performance was by the Zorian Quartet in the Wigmore Hall, London on 21 November 1945, in a concert to mark the exact 250th anniversary of the death of English composer Henry Purcell (165995).
 The work was commissioned by and is dedicated to Mary ("Mrs J. L.") Behrend, a patron of the arts; Britten donated most of his fee towards famine relief in India.
John Whitelaw (born 1943 in New York) is an American harpsichordist and longtime faculty member of the Royal Conservatory in Ghent.
 After studies in Chicago, he was a student of Kenneth Gilbert in Montreal from 1967-1971.
 In 1970 he won the Prix d'Europe.
 In 1971 he won second prize at the competition Musica Antiqua Bruges and first prize at the international harpsichord competition in Paris.
 He has appeared as a guest artist on numerous recordings, and in 1996 released his own album dedicated to the works of William Byrd.
Sevillana, or, as the composer titled it Sevillaña (Scène Espagnole), is a short piece for orchestra by the English composer Edward Elgar written in 1884 and published as his Op. 7.
 It was first published by Tuckwood, with the composer's revision of 1889 published by Ascherberg in 1895.
 It was dedicated to W. C. Stockley, conductor of the Birmingham Festival.
Louis Fleury (24 May 1878 – 10 June 1926) was a French flautist, pupil of Paul Taffanel at the Paris Conservatoire.
 Claude Debussy dedicated the piece for solo flute Syrinx to him in 1913, and Fleury performed the première.
 In 1921 English composer Cyril Rootham dedicated to Louis Fleury a "Suite in Three Movements" for flute and piano.

Question: John Whitelaw dedicated an album to an English composer of which era?
Answer: Renaissance