Orlando Gibbons
English composer, virginalist and organist (1583-1625) · Musicians · Died at 41
Orlando Gibbons was an English composer and keyboard player who was one of the last masters of the English Virginalist School and English Madrigal School.
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![17th-century copy of a lost original portrait by an unknown artist.[n 1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Orlando_Gibbons.jpg/500px-Orlando_Gibbons.jpg)
17th-century copy of a lost original portrait by an unknown artist.[n 1]
James Sargant Storer's drawing of, Orlando Gibbons's baptism place, St Martin's Church, Oxford, dated sometime before its renovations in 1820
16th-century Cambridge (Map by Braun and Hogenberg)![Employer of Orlando Gibbons, James I, who raised the annual salary of Gentleman of the Chapel Royal from £30 to £40 in 1604[27]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/James_I_of_England_Schloss_Ambras.jpg/500px-James_I_of_England_Schloss_Ambras.jpg)
Employer of Orlando Gibbons, James I, who raised the annual salary of Gentleman of the Chapel Royal from £30 to £40 in 1604[27]
Portrait of Charles, employer of Gibbons, as Prince of Wales after Daniel Mytens, c. 1623
Gibbons' memorial in Canterbury Cathedral designed by Nicholas Stone.About this person
The best known member of a musical family dynasty, by the 1610s he was the leading composer and organist in England, with a career cut short by his untimely death in 1625. As a result, Gibbons's oeuvre was not as large as that of his contemporaries, like the elder William Byrd, but he made considerable contributions to many genres of his time. Musicologists characterize his music as exemplifying the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque periods.
