William Byrd (/bɜrd/; 1540 or late 1539 – 4 July 1623, by the Julian calendar, 14 July 1623, by the Gregorian calendar) was an English composer of the Renaissance. He wrote in many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard (the so-called Virginalist school) and consort music.
Read more about William Byrd: Provenance, Early Years, The Chapel Royal, Cantiones Quae Ab Argumento Sacrae Vocantur (1575), Catholicism, Cantiones Sacrae (1589 and 1591), The English Song-books of 1588 and 1589, My Ladye Nevells Booke, Consort Music, Stondon Massey, Masses, Gradualia, Anglican Church Music, Psalms, Songs and Sonnets (1611), Last Works, Reputation and Reception, Veneration