Robert Wylkynson
Robert Wylkynson (sometimes Wilkinson) (ca. 1450 – Eton after 1515) was one of the composers of the Eton Choirbook. Wylkynson became parish clerk of Eton in 1496, then in 1500 he was promoted to Informator - the master of the choristers.
Also recorded as Robert Wilkinson
Robert Wylkynson
- Died
- 1515
- Nationality
- Kingdom of England
- Occupation
- composer
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Only four works survive: • 2x Salve Regina • Jesus autem transiens/Credo in Deum à 13 • motet O virgo prudentissima (fragmentary) But these works show Wylkynson to have been "an extremely ambitious composer and a more than competent one."
• Salve Regina Eton Choirbook Vol. I The Sixteen, dir. Harry Christophers • Salve Regina I & II. Music from The Eton Choirbook Vol. IV Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford, dir. Stephen Darlington • Jesus autem transiens/Credo in Deum à 13. Eton Choirbook Vol. III The Sixteen, dir. Harry Christophers • Jesus autem transiens/Credo in Deum à 13. on À 40 Voix.Huelgas Ensemble, dir. Paul Van Nevel. HMC 801954 • Jesus autem transiens/Credo in Deum à 13. Eton Choirbook Tonus Peregrinus
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- 1.Michael Kennedy, Joyce Bourne The concise Oxford dictionary of music
- 2.Burgess & Heale (ed) The Late Medieval English College and its Context p184
- 3.Hugh Benham Latin church music in England, c. 1460–1575 1977 Page 95
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