Orlando Gibbons and the Gibbons Family of Musicians
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd
Published: September 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9781840142099
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Composers & musicians; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; Music Of The 15th And 16th Centuries; Biography & Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Composers & Musicians - General; History & Criticism - General; 1583-1625; Biography; Composers; England; Gibbons, Orlando,; Musicians
Description: "Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) has long been recognized as holding a leading position in English music of the seventeenth century. In his own time he was known both as an outstanding composer, and a performer who was described as 'the best Finger of that Age' and 'the best hand in england'. It is therefore surprising that John Harley's Orlando Gibbons and the Gibbons Family of Musicians is the first full-length study to deal with his life and music since E. H.

Fellowes's short book, originally published in 1923."--BOOK JACKET.