LC control no. | n 50032948 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | ML410.B996 Biography |
Personal name heading | Byrd, William, 1539 or 1540-1623 |
Variant(s) | Byrd, William, 1539 or 40-1623 Byrde, William, 1539 or 1540-1623 Bird, William, 1539 or 1540-1623 Byred, William, 1539 or 1540-1623 Byrd, W. (William), 1539 or 1540-1623 |
Birth date | [1539,1540] |
Death date | 16230704 |
Place of birth | London, England |
Place of death | Essex, England |
Field of activity | Music |
Profession or occupation | Composers |
Special note | Thematic-index numbers used in uniform titles for the keyboard music of this composer are those given in the composer's Keyboard music (Musica Britannica ; 27-28), e.g. [Galliards, keyboard instrument, MB 71b] |
Found in | His Die englisch Madrigalisten, 1901. Brosse, J.-P. Batailles à Versailles [SR] p1986: container (W. Byrd) program notes (William Byrd) Harley, J. William Byrd, c1997: p. 14 (in his will, dated Nov. 15, 1622, he describes himself as "nowe in the Eightieth yeare of myne age" (hence b. between Nov. 15, 1542 and Nov. 15, 1543), but the will seems to have been drafted a few years before the fair copy was prepared for his signature; in testimony submitted to the Court of Star Chamber, in Byrd's own hand and dated Oct. 2, 1598, he describes himself as "58. yeares or ther abouts," placing his birth in late 1539 or in 1540) Grove music online, Nov. 8, 2007 (Byrd, William; b. ca. 1540, London, d. July 4, 1623, Stondon Massey, Essex; English composer) Email from BDS, 8 July 2010 (Harley, J. The World of William Byrd, 2010: modern scholarship accepts date of birth as 1539 or 40) Grove Music Online, Jan. 29, 2013: (Byrd, William; b. London, c1540; d. Stondon Massey, Essex, 4 July 1623) |
Invalid LCCN | no 98046465 no 98016173 |