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Gibbons Sheet Music and Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Orlando Gibbons
Bapt. 25 Dec 1583-5 Jun 1625<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Orlando Gibbons was an English composer and one of the last masters of the English Madrigal School. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On music-scores.com we have two arrangements of his most famous piece The Silver Swan<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He came from a large family of musicians, including his father who was a city councilor and both his brothers; Edward and Ellis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Education and Career<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the age of nineteen, he became a musician of the Chapel Royal. Despite the joy of his appointment, he experienced great sadness with the death of both his mother and brother died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gibbons graduated from Kings College, Cambridge with a Bachelor of Music degree. At this time he was already a gentleman of the Chapel Royal. He held the position of junior organist which was a remarkable achievement and maintained this position until his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1606, the same year as his graduation Gibbons married Elizabeth Patten. They had two children Alice and Christopher. Elizabeth’s father was a Yeoman of the Vestry at the Chapel Royal and likely acquainted with Gibbons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the 1610s Gibbons was probably the best organist in England. In 1612 he published his first set of Madrigals<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His popularity continued to flourish and his titles prestigious: In 1619 Gibbons was assigned as one of the ‘musicians for the virginalles to attend in his highness’s privy chamber’; three years later he received the position of honorary doctor of music at the University of Oxford and in 1623 he became the organist at Westminster Abbey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senior clergy and Royalty appointed Gibbons to write for them and six of his works were published in the Parthenia<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, his career and life ended prematurely at the age of just forty-one. Gibbons likely suffered a cerebral aneurysm whilst travelling on Royal business for Charles I.<\/a> A year later his wife Elizabeth died leaving his brother Edward to care for his orphaned children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did You Know?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n