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William Byrd
William Byrd is credited on 2,788 releases across 557 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
2,788
Credits
557
Albums
8
Decades active
51
In collections
Biography
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English madrigalist and composer (born c.1539/40 or 1543 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, died July 1623, 04 Stondon Massey, Essex).
This 'Father of Musicke' is considered the greatest of the Virginal composers, and has arguably had more influence on the development of English music than any other composer.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
2,788 releases · 557 albums · active 1950–2025
- Performance · 4,550
- Other credits · 26
Studios: Chapel Of King's College, Cambridge · Royal Festival Hall · I.B.C. Studios · Merton College Chapel, Oxford
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Time Passages
1978
Soused
2014
Fantasias For Guitar And Banjo
1963
Sweet Child
1968
Sir John Alot Of Merrie Englandes Musyk Thyng & Ye Grene Knyghte
1968
An Evening Of Elizabethan Music
1963
Julian Bream In Concert
The River
1997
The Collected Works
1997
Best CDs Of 1994
1994
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
1988
An Elizabethan Songbook
1969
The Golden Age Of English Lute Music
1961
English Motets
2018
Words & Music
1983
Choral Evensong For Ascension Day
1980
The Art Of Alfred Deller
1977
The World Of King's
1972
The Woods So Wild
1972
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Byrd
- The King's Singers
- Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
- The Cambridge Singers
- The Tallis Scholars
- Alfred Deller
- Tallis
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