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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 514,817 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Morley is the 1,144th most popular composer (down from 807th in 2019), the 3,563rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,269th in 2019) and the 54th most popular British Composer.

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  • 24

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Thomas Morley ranks 1,144 out of 1,216. Before him are Melchior Vulpius, William Sterndale Bennett, Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi, Arthur Bliss, Oskar Kolberg, and Johann Nepomuk David. After him are Bruno Coulais, Emilio Arrieta, Paul Whiteman, Manolis Kalomiris, Tadeusz Baird, and Alan Hovhaness.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1557, Thomas Morley ranks 13. Before him are Balthasar Gérard, Irina Godunova, Oda Nobutada, Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg, Lew Sapieha, and Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel. After him is Jean de Sponde. Among people deceased in 1602, Thomas Morley ranks 13. Before him are Li Zhi, Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Kanijeli Siyavuş Pasha, Catherine of Brandenburg-Küstrin, Caspar Peucer, and Juan de Fuca.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Morley ranks 3,563 out of 7,765. Before him are Prince George of Cambridge (2013), Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet (1628), Thomas Dekker (1572), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), and Wilfred Baddeley (1872). After him are Harry Stafford (1869), Chris Craft (1939), Jay Kay (1969), John Byng (1704), Jimmy McGrory (1904), and Astley Cooper (1768).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Morley ranks 54. Before him are Henry Bishop (1786), Brian Ferneyhough (1943), Gavin Bryars (1943), Thomas Linley the younger (1756), William Sterndale Bennett (1816), and Arthur Bliss (1891). After him are Havergal Brian (1876), Craig Armstrong (1959), David Arnold (1962), Gerald Finzi (1901), Fred Frith (1949), and Harrison Birtwistle (1934).

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