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Also known as Nicholas Laniere, Nicholas Lannier

English composer, singer, lutenist and painter (1588-1666)

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
United Kingdom
Active from
1588
Active to
1666

Discography

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Listeners
649
Total plays
2,214

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Nicholas Lanier, sometimes Laniere (1588–1666) was an English composer, singer, lutenist, and painter. Lanier was baptised at Greenwich on the10th September 1588; he was the son of John Lanier, who was the son of Nicholas Lanier the Elder. He was first taught by his father, John, who played the sackbut. In 1613 he composed a masque for the marriage of the Earl of Somerset jointly with Giovanni Coperario and others. He also wrote music and made sets for Ben Jonson's The Masque of Augurs and Love

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