Robert Wylkynson
Robert Wylkynson (sometimes Wilkinson) (ca. 1450 – Eton after 1515) was one of the composers of the Eton Choirbook.[1] Wylkynson became parish clerk of Eton in 1496,[2] then in 1500 he was promoted to Informator - the master of the choristers.
Only four works survive:
- 2x Salve Regina
- Jesus autem transiens/Credo in Deum à 13
- motet O virgo prudentissima (fragmentary)
But these works show Wylkynson to have been "an extremely ambitious composer and a more than competent one."[3]
Recordings[]
- Salve Regina Eton Choirbook Vol. I The Sixteen, dir. Harry Christophers
- Jesus autem transiens/Credo in Deum à 13. Eton Choirbook Vol. III The Sixteen, dir. Harry Christophers
- Jesus autem transiens/Credo in Deum à 13. on À 40 Voix.Huelgas Ensemble, dir. Paul Van Nevel. HMC 801954
- Jesus autem transiens/Credo in Deum à 13. Eton Choirbook Tonus Peregrinus
References[]
Categories:
- 1450s births
- 1510s deaths
- Renaissance composers
- English classical composers
- 16th-century English composers
- 15th-century English people
- English male classical composers
- Eton College