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Thomas Morley

1557 - 1602

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Thomas Morley (1557 – early October 1602) was an English composer, theorist, singer and organist of the Renaissance. He was one of the foremost members of the English Madrigal School. Referring to the strong Italian influence on the English madrigal, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians states that Morley was "chiefly responsible for grafting the Italian shoot on to the native stock and initiating the curiously brief but brilliant flowering of the madrigal that constitutes one of the most colourful episodes in the history of English music." Living in London at the same time as Shakespeare, Morley was the most famous composer of secular music in Elizabethan England. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Morley has received more than 543,561 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Thomas Morley is the 1,158th most popular composer (down from 1,142nd in 2019), the 3,556th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,555th in 2019) and the 51st most popular British Composer.

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  • 540k

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  • 54.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Thomas Morley ranks 1,158 out of 1,451. Before him are Gunther Schuller, José Vianna da Motta, Zakir Hussain, Vladimir Shainsky, Leigh Harline, and Robert Planquette. After him are Paul Whiteman, Vano Muradeli, Jean-Joseph Mouret, Jonathan Larson, Dario Marianelli, and John Corigliano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1557, Thomas Morley ranks 14. Before him are Oda Nobutada, Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg, Irina Godunova, Lew Sapieha, Leandro Bassano, and Öküz Mehmed Pasha. After him are Jean de Sponde, and Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel. Among people deceased in 1602, Thomas Morley ranks 15. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Catherine of Brandenburg-Küstrin, Hedwig of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Kanijeli Siyavuş Pasha, Caspar Peucer, and Juan de Fuca.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Morley ranks 3,556 out of 8,785. Before him are William Huskisson (1770), John Richardson (1787), Marmaduke Tunstall (1743), Roy Jenkins (1920), Catherine McCormack (1972), and Gary Numan (1958). After him are Jonny Greenwood (1971), Hilda of Whitby (614), Thomas Walker Arnold (1864), Christopher Middleton (1690), Kaya Scodelario (1992), and Henry Cooper (1934).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Morley ranks 51. Before him are York Bowen (1884), William Lawes (1602), Charles Avison (1709), Michael Tippett (1905), Henry Bishop (1786), and Clint Mansell (1963). After him are Adolph Deutsch (1897), Cyril Scott (1879), Harrison Birtwistle (1934), Craig Armstrong (1959), Granville Bantock (1868), and Ivor Novello (1893).

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