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Giles Farnaby
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Giles Farnaby (c. 1563–1640) was an English composer and virginalist of the Renaissance period. Giles Farnaby was born in about 1563, perhaps in Truro, Cornwall, or near London. His father, Thomas, was a Cittizen and Joyner of London, and Giles may have been related to Thomas Farnaby (c. 1575–1647), the famous schoolmaster of Kent. But it was his cousin Nicholas Farnaby (c. 1560–1630) who may have turned him to music. Nicholas was a virginal maker, at this time a generic word that included the entire family of plucked keyboard instruments: the harpsichord, virginal, muselaar, and the clavichord, and it is for these instruments that Farnaby's compositions are best known. Like his father however, Giles trained as a joiner or cabinet-maker, starting his apprenticeship in about 1583, and gave this trade as his occupation for most of his life. He married Katherine Roane on 28th May 1587, and first lived in the parish of St Helen's, Bishopsgate, in London. The couple had a daughter, Philadelphia, baptised on 8th August 1591, when the Farnabys moved to the neighbouring parish of St Peter's, Westcheap, and later a son, Richard Farnaby (1594 - 1623). After Philadelphia's premature death, prior to 1602, the Farnabys had three more children: a son Joy (1599), a daughter, also baptised Philadelphia (1602), and a last son, Edward (1604). In spite of his social background, hardly suited at this time to a university education, he graduated from the University of Oxford in 1592, receiving
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Giles Farnaby: Fantasias and Canzonets
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Madrid Atrium Musicae: Three Centuries of La Spagna
Music for the Courts of Europe
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Holborne / Gibbons / Byrd / Farnaby / Peerson / Bull / Tisdale: Keyboard Works
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Farnaby: Harpsichord Fantasias (Complete)
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La Spagna: A Tune Through Three Centuries
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Musick as befitts a Quene - English Virginal Music (1570-1650)
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English Madrigals (plus 7 English Anthems)
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Farnaby-Farnaby's dreame-Pièces pour clavier-Pierre hantai
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Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
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Brass Sketches