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JOHN WILBYE

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 632 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:WILBYE  , See also:English 16th-See also:century See also:madrigal composer, was See also:born probably at See also:Bury St See also:Edmunds, but the details of his See also:life are obscure . A set of madrigals by him appeared in 1598 and a second in 16o8, the two sets containing sixty-four pieces; and from a few contributions known to have been made by him to other contemporary sets, we can infer that he was alive in 1614 . He is the most famous of all the English madrigalists; his pieces have See also:long been favourites and are included in See also:modern collections .

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