Quote of the day
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
William Byrd
Born: 1543
Died: July 4, 1623 (aged 80)
Bio: William Byrd 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, and consort music.
Known for:
- My Ladye Nevells Booke (1591)
- My Ladye Nevells Booke of Virginal Music
- Earl of Oxford's March: Score & Parts
- Popular Pieces for Piano Solo
- Mass 3 Voices