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Baptized May 1, 1602
Died September 24, 1645 • Chester • England
Movement / Style Baroque art and architecture • Baroque music
Notable Family Members brother Henry Lawes
Matthew Locke, portrait by an unknown artist; in the collection of the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford
Matthew Locke
British composer
Purcell, Henry
Henry Purcell
English composer
William Byrd
William Byrd
English composer
William Boyce
British composer
William Croft
English musician
Thomas Tomkins
English composer and organist
Alfonso Ferrabosco, II
English composer
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel
German-English composer
Thomas Arne, engraving (1782) after an illustration by Francesco Bartolozzi.
Thomas Arne
British composer
Henry Lawes, portrait by an unknown artist; in the collection of the Faculty of Music, Oxford
Henry Lawes
English composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Austrian composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Antonio Sacchini
Italian composer
Henri Dutilleux
French composer
Darius Milhaud
French composer
Henri Sauguet
French composer
Joaquín Turina.
Joaquín Turina
Spanish composer
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer
Telemann, Georg Philipp
Georg Philipp Telemann
German composer

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