Instrumental Music With Recorders Between 1300 and 1650

Biography

Elway Bevin (c.1554–c.1638) was an English or Welsh composer, theorist, and musician. Bevin's early life is not known. He was a pupil of ThomasTallis, and became Vicar-choral of Wells Cathedral in 1575-78 and organist at Bristol Cathedral fron 1589. He was a member of the Chapel Royal from 1605, but because he was a Catholic he lost the post in 1637. Bevin composed some Anglican church music and a setting of the folk song known as "Browning" in the Cosyn Virginal Book. He also wrote treatises...

Elway Bevin (c.1554–c.1638) was an English or Welsh composer, theorist, and musician.

Bevin's early life is not known. He was a pupil of ThomasTallis, and became Vicar-choral of Wells Cathedral in 1575-78 and organist at Bristol Cathedral fron 1589. He was a member of the Chapel Royal from 1605, but because he was a Catholic he lost the post in 1637.

Bevin composed some Anglican church music and a setting of the folk song known as "Browning" in the Cosyn Virginal Book. He also wrote treatises on methods of constructing canons in up to sixty parts, including a Briefe and Short Instruction of the Art of Musick (1631). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.