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Henry Lawes - Cavalier Songwriter (Hardcover)
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Henry Lawes - Cavalier Songwriter (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Monographs on Music
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Henry Lawes (1596-1662) has long been acknowledged as the most
important and prolific English songwriter between the death of John
Dowland in 1626 and the birth of Henry Purcell in 1659. He is
celebrated as Milton's collaborator in Comus (1634). Although he
wrote some church music, Lawes' significance as a composer lies in
his settings of many of the lyrics by Cavalier poets such as Carew,
Herrick, Suckling, and Waller - who, like Lawes himself, belonged
to the brilliant court of Charles I. This book combines an account
of his life with a study of his development as a songwriter during
this period. Following the execution of the King in 1649, Lawes
played an important part in establishing concerts in London during
the 1650s, and was one of the composers of the first English opera,
Davenant's "The Siege of Rhodes" (1656). At the Restoration he set
"Zadok the Priest" for the coronation of Charles II, but died the
following year.
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