Adrian Batten (1591–1637) was born in Salisbury. He probably served as a chorister at Winchester Cathedral, where he also studied...

John Browne (fl. c. 1490–1500) is the pre-eminent composer of the Eton Choirbook, not just in terms of the number...

John Sheppard (c. 1515–1558) was Informator choristarum (instructor of the choristers) at Magdalen College, Oxford from Michaelmas 1543 until some...

John Taverner (c. 1490–1545) was the foremost English composer of the first half of the 16th century. In 1526 he...

Robert White (c. 1538–1574) was granted the degree of MusB at Cambridge in 1560, after ten years of study. He...

Robert Wylkynson (c. 1475–1515 or later) was appointed as parish clerk at Eton in 1496 and served as informator choristarum...

Thomas Tallis (c. 1505–1585)

Thomas Tomkins (1572–1656) was born in the Welsh city of St Davids, where his father was a vicar-choral at the...

Thomas Weelkes (1576–1623)

Walter Lambe (b. ?1450–51, d. after Michaelmas 1504) was admitted as a clerk in the choir of St George’s Chapel,...

William Byrd (c. 1540–1623)

William Cornysh (d. c. 1502) was Informator choristarum at Westminster Abbey from 1479 to 1491. It had been thought that...

William Mundy (c. 1528 – c. 1591)