Dowland
Americannoun
noun
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The instrumental consort—three viols, two violins, harpsichord and lute/theorbo—offered an invigorating collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean hits by such contemporaneous composers as William Brade, William Lawes, John Dowland and Anthony Holborne.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
Purcell cleverly prefaces his Haydn, and Dowland his Schumann, and if his Brahms Fourth is misguided, his Beethoven Ninth is bracingly straightforward.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2022
They’ll play Schumann’s complete “Dichterliebe” as well as works by Price, Bonds, John Dowland, Charles Brown, Ernest Charles, William Bolcom and a set of spirituals.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2021
Said to have been an extraordinary lutenist, Dowland was ever conniving, ever complaining, ever in debt, ever ingratiating himself in court, ever scheming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2020
The Englishman was John Dowland, a Londoner and exact contemporary of Shakespeare who spent some of his most fruitfully creative years as the extravagandy paid official lutenist to King Christian IV of Denmark.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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