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Orlando Gibbons ( Baptised December 25 1583 – June 5 1625 ) was an English Composer and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean Periods . He was born in Oxford . Between 1596 and 1598 he sang in the choir of King's College , Cambridge ; he achieved the degree of Bachelor of Music in 1606 . James I appointed him a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal , where he served as an organist from at least 1615 until his death. He died in Canterbury , of Apoplexy , and a monument to him was built in Canterbury Cathedral . One of the most versatile English composers of his time, he wrote a quantity of Keyboard works, around thirty Fantasia s for Viol s, a number of Madrigal s (the best known being ''The Silver Swan'') and many popular Verse Anthem s. The Eccentric Virtuoso Pianist Glenn Gould named Gibbons as his favorite composer of all time. External links
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