A clerk of St George’s Chapel, Windsor, for about fifty years during the mid-16th century, John Merbecke wrote some fine Latin church music before he
converted to Protestantism and abandoned composition. His extended setting of the Marian antiphon Ave dei patris filia is fluent and imaginative and shows a
sound grasp of imitative technique. For five voices: TrATBarB. v + 16 pages. |
