Orlando Gibbons
Born: December 25, 1583; Oxford, England
Died: June 5, 1625; Canterbury, England
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Orlando Gibbons was one of the most important English composers from the early seventeenth century, with only William Byrd eclipsing him in rank. His church music, exclusively written for the English Church, is among the most popular and enduring in his oeuvre. Notable in this realm are his polyphonic anthems, O clap your hands, Hosanna, and Lift up your head. His two Services are also of great significance: the Short Service is polyphonic and
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Works
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A Fancy (2)
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A Ground (2)
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Almaine for Mr Johnson (1)
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Alman for Keyboard in G major (2)
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Alman for Keyboard, MB 20 no 33 (1)
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Alman for Keyboard, MB 20 no 36 "The King's Jewel" (1)
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Alman for Keyboard, MB 20 no 37 (1)
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Alman on the 1st tone, for keyboard, MB33 (1)
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Alman on the 3rd tone, for keyboard, MB34 (1)
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Alman on the 5th tone, for keyboard, MB35 (1)
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Alman on the 8th tone, for keyboard, MB37 (1)
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Almighty and everlasting God (9)
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Behold, thou hast made my days (4)
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Blessed are all they that fear the Lord (3)
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Coranto (1)
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Coranto on the 1st tone, for keyboard, MB39 (1)
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Coranto on the 3rd tone, for keyboard, MB40 (1)
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Coranto, MB 20 no 40 (1)
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Courant and Variation in D minor (1)
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Courante for Keyboard, MB 20 no 39 (1)
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Cryes of London (6)
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Cryes of London: A good sausage (1)
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Cryes of London: God give you good morrow (1)
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Drop, drop, slow tears (13)
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Fancy in C fa ut (1)
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Fancy in Gamutt flatt (1)
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Fantasia (3)
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Fantasia à 2 (2)
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Fantasia a 2, No.4, for viols, MB4 (1)
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Fantasia a 2, No.5, for viols, MB5 (1)
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Fantasia à 3 (1)
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Fantasia a 3 (Music for the Double Bass), No.2, MB17 (1)
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Fantasia a 3 (Music for the Double Bass), No.3, MB18 (1)
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Fantasia a 3, No.1, for viols, MB7 (1)
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Fantasia a 3, No.3, for viols, MB9 (1)
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Fantasia a 3, No.4, for viols, MB10 (1)
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Fantasia a 3, No.5, for viols, MB11 (1)
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Fantasia a 3, No.7, for viols, MB13 (1)
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Fantasia à 4 (5)
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Fantasia à 6 no 6 (1)
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Fantasia a 6, No.5, for viols, MB35 (1)
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Fantasia a 6, No.6, for viols, MB36 (1)
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Fantasia no 10 (1)
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Fantasia no 8 (1)
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Fantasia on the 1st tone, for keyboard, MB6 (1)
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Fantasia on the 2nd tone (transposed), for keyboard, MB8 (1)
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Fantasia on the 2nd tone, for keyboard, MB9 (1)
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Fantasia on the 3rd tone, for keyboard, MB12 (1)
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Fantasia on the 5th tone, for keyboard, MB14 (1)
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Fantasias (10) for Keyboard: Fantasia in A minor (2)
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Fantasias (10) for Keyboard: Fantasia in C major (2)
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Fantasias (10) for Keyboard: Fantasia no 1 in D minor (1)
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Fantasias (10) for Keyboard: Fantasia no 10 in C major (3)
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Fantasias (10) for Keyboard: Fantasia no 2 in D minor (3)
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Fantasias (10) for Keyboard: Fantasia no 3 in C major for double Organ (5)
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Fantasias (10) for Keyboard: Fantasia no 4 in D minor (1)
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Fantasias (10) for Keyboard: Fantasia no 5 in G minor (1)
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Fantasias (10) for Keyboard: Fantasia no 6 in A minor (3)
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Fantasias (10) for Keyboard: Fantasia no 7 in A minor (2)
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Fantasias (10) for Keyboard: Fantasia no 8 in A minor (4)
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Fantasias (10) for Keyboard: Fantasia no 9 in C major (2)
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Fantasias (15) à 3: Excerpt(s) (1)
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Fantasias (15) à 3: no 1 (2)
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Fantasias (15) à 3: no 2 (3)
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Fantasias (15) à 3: no 3 (2)
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Fantasias (15) à 3: no 4 (1)
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Fantasias (15) à 3: no 5 (1)
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Fantasias (15) à 3: no 6 (1)
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Fantasias (15) à 3: no 7 (1)
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Fantasias (15) à 3: no 8 (2)
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Fantasias (15) à 3: no 9 (2)
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Fantasias (2) à 4 "for the great double bass": Excerpt(s) (1)
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Fantasias (2) à 4 "for the great double bass": no 1 (7)
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Fantasias (2) à 4 "for the great double bass": no 2 (3)
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Fantasias (4) à 3 "for the great double bass": no 1 (1)
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Fantasias (4) à 3 "for the great double bass": no 4 (3)
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Fantasias (4) à 6: no 1 (3)
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Fantasias (4) à 6: no 2 (4)
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Fantasias (4) à 6: no 3 (4)
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Fantasias (4) à 6: no 4 (1)
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Fantasias (4) à 6: no 5 (2)
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Fantasias (6) à 2 (1)
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Fantasias (6) à 2: no 1 (1)
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Fantasias (6) à 2: no 5 (3)
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Fantasias (6) a 6: no 1, MB 31 (1)
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Fantasias (6) a 6: no 2, MB 32 (1)
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Fantasias (6) a 6: no 3, MB 33 (1)
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Fantasias (6) a 6: no 4, MB 34 (1)
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Fantasias (6) a 6: no 5, MB 35 (1)
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Fantasias (6) a 6: no 6, MB 36 (1)
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Fantasias (9) à 3: no 1 (4)
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Fantasias (9) à 3: no 2 (2)
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Fantasias (9) à 3: no 3 (3)
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Fantasias (9) à 3: no 4 (3)
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Fantasias (9) à 3: no 8 (1)
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Fantasias (9) à 3: no 9 (1)
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Fantasie (1)
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Fantasie "Il Lamento" (1)
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Fantasie "La Sampogna" (1)
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First Set of Madrigals and Mottets: 'Mongst thousands good (1)
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First Set of Madrigals and Mottets: Ah, deere hart (5)
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First Set of Madrigals and Mottets: Daintie fine bird (5)
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First Set of Madrigals and Mottets: Fair ladies that to Love (1)
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First Set of Madrigals and Mottets: Faire is the rose (2)
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First Set of Madrigals and Mottets: I feign not friendship where I hate (1)
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First Set of Madrigals and Mottets: I see ambition never pleased (1)
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First Set of Madrigals and Mottets: I tremble not at noise of war (1)
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First Set of Madrigals and Mottets: I waigh not fortunes frowne (1)
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First Set of Madrigals and Mottets: The silver swanne (26)
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First Set of Madrigals and Mottets: Trust not too much, fair youth (1)
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First Set of Madrigals and Mottets: What is our life? (7)
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French Air (Alman), for keyboard, MB32 (1)
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French Air for Keyboard (1)
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French Coranto, for keyboard, MB38 (1)
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French Courante for Keyboard (1)
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Galliard (3)
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Galliard à 3 (3)
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Galliard for Keyboard, MB 20 no 21 (1)
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Galliard for Keyboard, MB 20 no 22 (1)
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Galliard for Keyboard, MB 20 no 23 (2)
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Galliard on the 1st tone, for keyboard, MB21 (1)
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Galliard on the 1st tone, for keyboard, MB22 (1)
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Galliard on the 1st tone, for keyboard, MB23 (1)
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Galliard on the 3rd tone, for keyboard, MB24 (1)
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Galliard on the 5th tone, for keyboard, MB25 (1)
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Give me the wings of Faith (1)
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Glorious and powerful God (6)
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Go from my window (7)
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Great King of Gods (7)
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Ground for Keyboard "Italian" (8)
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Ground for Keyboard in A minor (2)
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Ground for Keyboard, MB 20 no 26 (3)
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Ground on the 3rd tone, for keyboard, MB26 (1)
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Hosanna to the Son of David (24)
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Hymnes and Songs: no 34, He wants not friends that hath Thy love (1)
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Hymns and Songs: Song 1 (1)
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Hymns and Songs: Song 1 "Now shall the praises of the Lord be sung" (3)
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Hymns and Songs: Song 1 "We are of Thee" (1)
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Hymns and Songs: Song 13 (1)
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Hymns and Songs: Song 13 "O my love, how comely now" (3)
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Hymns and Songs: Song 13 "Take my life" (1)
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Hymns and Songs: Song 14 "Arise thou North wind" (1)
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Hymns and Songs: Song 18 "Who's this, that leaning on" (1)
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Hymns and Songs: Song 20 "Lord, I will sing to thee" (1)
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Hymns and Songs: Song 22 "O Lord of Hosts and God of Israel" (1)
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Hymns and Songs: Song 24 "How sad and solitary now" (1)
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Hymns and Songs: Song 3 "Sing Praises Isr'el to the Lord" (1)
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Hymns and Songs: Song 31 "Lord, thy answer I did heare" (1)
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Hymns and Songs: Song 34 "Thus angels sung" (2)
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Hymns and Songs: Song 4 "Now in the Lord my heart" (1)
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Hymns and Songs: Song 41 "Oh all you Creatures of the Lord" (1)
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Hymns and Songs: Song 44 "Come Holy Ghost" (1)
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Hymns and Songs: Song 44 "To Thee, the Father, and the Son" (2)
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Hymns and Songs: Song 46 "Christmas Day" (1)
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Hymns and Songs: Song 47 "A song of joy unto the Lord" (1)
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Hymns and Songs: Song 5 "The Beauty, Israel, is gone" (1)
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Hymns and Songs: Song 67 "When one among the twelve there was" (1)
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Hymns and Songs: Song 9 "Come kiss me with those lips of thine" (3)
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I am the resurrection (1)
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If ye be risen again with Christ (2)
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In Nomine à 4 (6)
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In Nomine à 5 (7)
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In Nomine à 5 no 1 (3)
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In Nomine à 5 no 2 (5)
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In Nomine à 5 no 3 (1)
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In Nomine a 5, No.2, for viols, MB28 (1)
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In Nomine(s) (2)
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Jesu, grant me this I pray (1)
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Lady Hatton's galliard, for keyboard, MB20 (1)
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Lift up your heads (3)
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Lincoln's Inn Mask (5)
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Lord Salisbury's pavan and galliard, for keyboard, MB18/19 (1)
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Magnificat (3)
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Mask "Welcome home" (1)
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Nann's mask "French alman" (2)
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Nunc dimittis (2)
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O all true faithful hearts (4)
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O clap your hands (24)
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O God, the King of Glory (4)
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O Lord increase my faith (1)
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O Lord, how do my woes increase (1)
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O Lord, I lift my heart to thee (2)
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O Lord, in thee is all my trust (1)
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O Lord, in thy wrath rebuke me not (12)
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O that the learned poets of this time, madrigal for 5 voices (1)
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O thou, the central orb (1)
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Out of the deep (2)
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Pavan and Galliard a 6 (3)
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Pavan for Keyboard, MB 20 no 16 (1)
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Pavan for Keyboard, MB 20 no 17 (3)
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Pavan on the 1st tone, for keyboard, MB15 (1)
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Pavan on the 2nd tone, for keyboard, MB16 (3)
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Pavan on the 3rd tone, for keyboard, MB17 (1)
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Pavan, for 6 viols, MB41 (1)
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Pavane (1)
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Pavane "De le Roye" (1)
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Pavane and Galliard "Lord Salisbury" (12)
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Pavane and Galliard "Lord Salisbury": Galliard (1)
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Pavane and Galliard "Lord Salisbury": Pavan (1)
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Pavane and Galliard "Lord Salisbury": Pavane (5)
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Pavane no 16 in G minor (2)
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Pavans for keyboard, unidentified: Pavana (1)
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Peascod Time (The Hunt's Up), for keyboard, MB30 (1)
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Praise the Lord, o my soul (1)
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Preces and Responses (1)
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Prelude (Short prelude) on the 1st tone, for keyboard, MB3 (1)
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Prelude for Organ (3)
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Prelude in A minor (1)
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Prelude no 1 (1)
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Prelude on the 3rd tone, for keyboard, MB1 (1)
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Prelude on the 8th tone, for keyboard, MB2 (1)
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Preludes (4) for Keyboard: no 1 in A minor (2)
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Preludes (4) for Keyboard: no 2 in G major (7)
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Preludes (4) for Keyboard: no 3 in D minor (1)
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Psalm 142 (1)
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Second service (4)
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Second service: Magnificat (4)
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Second service: Nunc dimittis (3)
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See, see, the word is incarnate (12)
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Short Prelude for Organ, MB 20 no 3 (1)
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Short Prelude for Organ, MB 20 no 4 (1)
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Short service: Nunc dimittis (3)
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Short service: Te Deum (1)
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Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints (2)
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Te Deum (3)
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The fairest nymph (6)
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The hunt's up (1)
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The Italian Ground, for keyboard, MB27 (1)
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The King's jewel (2)
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The queen's command (7)
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The silver swanne, madrigal for 5 voices (3)
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The Temple Mask, for keyboard, MB45 (1)
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The woods so wild (3)
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This is the record of John (22)
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Thou God of wisdom (1)
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Thus angels sung (1)
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Verse (1)
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Voluntary (2)
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Welcome Home, mask for keyboard, MB42 (1)
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Whoop, do me no harm, good man (3)
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Work(s): Fantasy in D (1)
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Work(s): [Unspecified] Fantasia in D (1)
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Ye sacred Muses (1)
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Biography |
by Robert Cummings
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Orlando Gibbons was one of the most important English composers from the early seventeenth century, with only William Byrd eclipsing him in rank. His church music, exclusively written for the English Church, is among the most popular and enduring in his oeuvre. Notable in this realm are his polyphonic anthems, O clap your hands, Hosanna, and Lift up your head. His two Services are also of great significance: the Short Service is polyphonic and the Second Service is a verse work with organ accompaniment. In the keyboard realm, several of his compositions have been widely declared of such masterful quality as to be unsurpassed by anything until the era of Bach. The Fantasia of Four Parts, from the Parthenia collection, is one such example. His fairly substantial output for keyboard includes many corantos, galliards, pavans, and fantasies. His First Set of Madrigals and Mottets demonstrate his considerable talents in the realm of secular music.
Orlando Gibbons was born in Oxford, probably no more than a week before Christmas, as his baptism took place on December 24, in St. Martin's Church, Oxford. With older siblings who were accomplished musicians, the young Orlando was raised in a musical environment strongly conducive to his burgeoning talents. It is likely that his first music training came from them, perhaps mostly from his brother Edward.
On February 14, 1596, Orlando became a member of the King's College Choir at Cambridge. His brother, Edward, was then master of the choristers there. Orlando served in the choir until the fall of 1598, afterward making periodic appearances there until May 1599. By this time he was known to be composing music.
Earlier that same year he began studies at Cambridge University. In about 1603, Gibbons became a member of the Chapel Royal, and on March 21, 1605, he was appointed its organist. He was already regarded as one of the finest organists in England, and had become a respected composer, though he would not see his first works published for seven more years.
Gibbons graduated from Cambridge in 1606 and that summer married Elizabeth Patten, possibly only about 16 years old. There would be six surviving children from the marriage. The composer wrote a fair amount of music in the 1610s, but much of it would not appear until well after his death. The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets, apt for Viols and Voyces was published in 1612. A year later came the publication of six keyboard works in Parthenia, which was a collective effort in that it also included compositions by Byrd (eight) and Bull (seven). A collection of the composer's anthems appeared in Leighton's Teares or Lamentacions of a Sorrowfull Soule of 1614. They include O Lord, I lift my heart to thee and O Lord, in thee is all my trust, both for five voices. On July 19, 1615, the now widely known Gibbons was granted 150 pounds by King James I for his "faythfull service." In 1619, Gibbons was appointed to the royal post of Musician for the Virginals, while retaining his prestigious Chapel Royal post.
A collection of nine three-part works by him, titled Fantasias, was published in 1620. Three years later, Gibbons contributed 16 tunes to George Withers' collection, Hymnes and Songs of the Church. A 17th was added in a later manuscript. Gibbons accepted another post, in 1623, that of organist at Westminster Abbey. Two years later, he died suddenly in Canterbury, apparently of a stroke or related condition. |
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