Thomas Morley
Birth Year: | 1557 |
Death Year: | 1603 |
Notes: | English composer, theorist, singer and organist of the Renaissance. He was one of the foremost members of the English Madrigal School. He became organist at St Paul's Cathedral. He was the most famous composer of secular music in Elizabethan England. He and Robert Johnson are the composers of the only surviving contemporary settings of verse by Shakespeare. |