Who is John Wilbye
John Wilbye (baptized 7 March 1574 – September 1638) was an English madrigal composer.Early life and education
The son of a tanner, he was born at Brome, Suffolk, England. (Brome is near Diss.)
Career
Wilbye received the patronage of the Cornwallis family of Brome Hall.Wilbye was employed for decades at Hengrave Hall, near Bury St. Edmunds, where he seems to have been recruited in the 1590s by Elizabeth Kitson who was married to the property's owner, Sir Thomas Kitson (or Kytson). The Kitsons also had a long association with the composer Edward Johnson, who was more than twenty years older than Wilbye, and began working at Hengrave in the 1570s.
As well as working in Suffolk, Wilbye was involved with the music scene in London, w...
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John Wilbye Poems
- What Needeth All This Travail?
What needeth all this travail and turmoiling
Shortening the life's pleasure
To seek this far-fetched treasure
In those hot climates under Phoebus broiling?... - Alas What Hope Of Speeding
Alas what hope of speeding
Where hope beguiled lies bleeding?
She bade come when she spied me,
And when I came she flied me. ... - I Fall, I Fall
I fall, I fall, O stay me,
Dear love, with joys you slay me,
Of life your lips deprive me,
Sweet, let your lips revive me, ... - Adieu Sweet Amaryllis
Adieu, adieu
sweet amaryllis.
For since to part your will is.
O heavy tiding ... - Lady, Your Words Do Spite Me
Lady, your words do spite me,
Yet your sweet lips, so soft, kiss and delight me,
Your deeds my heart surcharg'd with overjoying,
Your taunts my life destroying. ...
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