See also:JOHN See also:BULL (c. 1562–1628)
, See also:English composer and organist, was See also:born in See also:Somersetshire about 1562
.
After being organist in See also:Hereford See also:cathedral, he joined the See also:Chapel Royal in 1585, and in the next See also:year became a See also:Mus
.
Bac. of See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford
.
In 1591 he was appointed organist in See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth's chapel in See also:succession to Blitheman, from whom he had received his musical See also:education
.
In 1592 he received the degree of See also:doctor of See also:music at See also:Cambridge University; and in 1596 he was made music See also:professor at See also:Gresham See also:College, See also:London
.
As he was unable to lecture in Latin according to the See also:foundation-rules of that college, the executors of See also:Sir See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Gresham made a See also:dispensation. in his favour by permitting him to lecture in English
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He gave his first lecture on the 6th of See also:October 1597
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In 16or See also:Bull went abroad
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He visited See also:France and See also:Germany, and was everywhere received with the respect due to his talents
.
See also:Anthony See also:Wood tells an impossible See also:story of how at St Omer Dr Bull performed the feat of adding, within a few See also:hours, See also:forty parts to a See also:composition already written in forty parts
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See also:Honourable employments were offered to him by various See also:continental princes; but he declined them, and returned to See also:England, where he was given the freedom of the See also:Merchant Taylors' See also:Company in 16o6
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He played upon a small pair of See also:organs before See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I. on the 16th of See also:July 1607, in the See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall of the Company, and he seems to have been appointed one of the king's organists in that year
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In the same year he resigned his Gresham professorship and married Elizabeth See also:Walter
.
In 1613 he again went to the See also:continent on See also:account of his See also:health, obtaining a See also:post as one of the organists in the See also:arch-See also:duke's chapel at See also:Brussels
.
In 1617 he was appointed organist to the cathedral of Notre See also:Dame at See also:Antwerp, and he died in that See also:city on the 12th or 13th of See also:March 1628
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Little of his music has been published, and the opinions of critics differ much as to its merits (see Dr Willibald Nagel's Geschichte der Musik in England, ii
.
(1897), p
.
155, &c.; and Dr Seiffert's Geschichte der Klaviermusik (1899), p
.
54, &c.)
.
Contemporary writers speak in the highest terms of Bull's skill as a performer on the See also:organ and the virginals, and there is no doubt that he contributed much to the development of See also:harpsichord music
.
See also:Jan Swielinck (15621621), the See also:great organist of See also:Amsterdam, did not regard his See also:work on composition as See also:complete without placing in it a See also:canon by See also:John Bull, and the latter wrote a See also:fantasia upon a See also:fugue of Swielinck
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For the ascription to Bull of the composition of the See also:British See also:national See also:anthem, see NATIONAL ANTHEMS
.
See also:Good See also:modern reprints, e.g. of the See also:Fitzwilliam See also:Virginal-See also:Book, " The King's See also:Hunting See also:Jig," and one or two other pieces, are in the repertories of modern pianists from See also:Rubinstein onwards
.
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