John Farmer


(c.1560- ?)


English composer and organist of Holy Trinity (now Christ 
Church) Cathedral, Dublin, between c.1595 and c.1599, 
but otherwise lived in London. His madrigals of 1599 are 
unassuming but attractive, and he supplied many competent 
4-part psalm settings for East's and Ravenscroft's psalters, 
and instrumental music for anthologies by Simpson and 
Rosseter. He contributed a madrigal, "Fair nymphs I heard 
one telling", to The Triumphs of Oriana. 


excerpted from:
(http://www.hoasm.org/IVM/Englandthru1635.html)
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