George Kirbye   1570 - 1634

Composer of madrigals and other period pieces,  
not too much is available online about him.  He was 
a contributor to "The Triumphs Of Oriana" in 1601.

A neighbour of Wilbye at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk,
Kirbye left 24 madrigals for 4, 5 and 6 voices, 
including the only known madrigal setting of words 
by England’s finest poet since Chaucer, Edmund 
Spencer, author of The Faerie Queene.
In addition, 18 items, all but one being
incomplete, survive in 2 sets of early 
17th-century part books.