Giles Farnaby (1560 - 1640)
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Royaume-UniGiles Farnaby (1560 in Truro, Cornwall, England - November of 1640 in London, England) was an English composer.
His father, Thomas, was a scholar and schoolmaster. It was his cousin, Nicholas, who turned him to music. Nicholas was a virginal maker (a small, rectangular, legless harpsichord popular in the 16th and 17th centuries). It is for his writing for this instrument that Farnaby is most well known. He graduated from the University of Oxford in 1592 receiving a Bachelor?s degree in music. ... (Read all)
His father, Thomas, was a scholar and schoolmaster. It was his cousin, Nicholas, who turned him to music. Nicholas was a virginal maker (a small, rectangular, legless harpsichord popular in the 16th and 17th centuries). It is for his writing for this instrument that Farnaby is most well known. He graduated from the University of Oxford in 1592 receiving a Bachelor?s degree in music. ... (Read all)
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