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Campion Lute Songs (Album) by Thomas Campion

Artist Biography For Thomas Campion

Thomas Campion Sometimes Campian February 12 1567 – March 1 1620 Was An English Composer Poet And Physician. Campion Was Born In London And Studied At Peterhouse Cambridge But Left Without Taking A Degree. He Later Entered Gray's Inn To Study Law In 1586. However He Left In 1595 Without Having Been Called To The Bar. On February 10 1605 He Received His Medical Degree From The University Of Caen. Campion Was First Published As A Poet In 1591 With Five Of His Works Appearing In An Edition Of Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel And Stella. The Songs Of Mourning Bewailing The Untimely Death Of Prince Henry 1613 Were Set To Music By John Cooper. He Also Wrote A Number Of Other Poems As Well As A Book On Poetry Observations In The Art Of English Poesie 1602 In Which He Criticises The Practice Of Rhyming In Poetry. Campion Wrote Over One Hundred Lute Songs In The Books Of Airs With The First Collection Co-Written With Philip Rosseter Appearing In 1601 And Four More Following Throughout The 1610s. He Also Wrote A Number Of Masques Including Lord Hay's Masque Performed In 1607 Along With Somerset Masque And The Lord's Masque Which Premiered In 1613. Some Of Campion's Works Were Quite Ribald On The Other Hand Such As "Beauty Since You So Much Desire" See Media . In 1615 He Published A Book On Counterpoint A New Way Of Making Fowre Parts In Counterpoint By A Most Familiar And Infallible Rule Which Was Regarded Highly Enough To Be Reprinted In 1660. He Was Implicated In The Murder Of Sir Thomas Overbury But Was Eventually Exonerated As It Was Found That He Had Delivered A Bribe Unwittingly. Campion Died In London Possibly Of The Plague. Early Dictionary Writers Such As Fétis Saw Campion As A Theorist. It Was Much Later On That People Began To See Him As A Composer.

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