Skip to content
EntityQ947941· pop 19· linked from 88 articles

Matthew Locke

Sign in to save

English Baroque composer

Person · Open Library

Born
1621 or 2
Died
1677
Works
26

Top works

  • The present practice of musick vindicated against the exceptions and new way of attaining musick lately published
  • Macbeth
  • Shakespeare's tragedy of Macbeth
  • Melothesia
  • Chamber Music, Complete for Organ and Strings

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
GB
Active from
1621
Active to
1677-08

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
13,770
Total plays
77,527

Tags

baroqueClassicalenglishcomposerearly music

Matthew Locke (c.1621–1677) was an English baroque composer and music theorist. As a boy he was trained in the choir of Exeter Cathedral under Edward Gibbons, the brother of Orlando Gibbons. At the age of eighteen Locke travelled in the Netherlands, and possibly converted to Roman Catholicism. Locke, with Christopher Gibbons (the son of Orlando Gibbons), composed the score for Cupid and Death, the 1653 masque by Caroline-era playwright James Shirley. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Matthew+

via Last.fm · Matthew Locke