*1570 GB, England
Composer of Classical
John Farmer (c. 1570 – c. 1601) was a composer of the English Madrigal School. He was born in England around 1570 but his exact date of birth is not known – a 1926 article by Grattan Flood posits a date around 1564 to 1565 based on matriculation records. Farmer was under the patronage of the Earl of Oxford and dedicated his collection of canons and his late madrigal volume to his patron.His Lord's Prayer is performed widely throughout many Churches and Cathedral's, mostly in Britain. It is included in Volume 2 of Oxford Choral Classics, published by Oxford University Press.
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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The Coronation Of King George II | Georg Friedrich Händel, Henry Purcell, John Blow, Thomas Tallis, Orlando Gibbons, John Farmer, William Child, The Choir Of The King's Consort, The King's Consort, Robert King | 2001 | Album |
Kissing, Drinking And Insect Songs | Claudio Monteverdi, Heinrich Schütz, Josquin Des Prés, Roland de Lassus, Carlo Gesualdo, John Dowland, John Farmer, Thomas Weelkes, Thomas Morley, William Lawes, Juan Ponçe, The Sine Nomine Singers, Harry Saltzman | 1972 | Album |
Elizabethan And Jacobean Ayres, Madrigals And Dances | New York Pro Musica, Noah Greenberg - William Byrd / Orlando Gibbons / Thomas Morley / John Dowland / Thomas Campion / John Cooper / Robert Jones / John Farmer | 1959 | Album |
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