Read more: Black faces of Tudor EnglandĪnother well-known composer of Henry VII’s reign, who was also commissioned by Henry’s wife, Elizabeth of York, was William Cornysh.Fayrfax continued to serve Henry VIII, one of his last commissions being music for the meeting between the monarch and the French king Francois at the Field of Cloth of Gold in 1520. Henry VII's most important musician was Robert Fayrfax (c1460–1521), organist of St Alban’s Abbey and first doctor of music at Cambridge. Some of these court musicians were also well known writers and performers. All of the Tudor and Stewart monarchs were musical, and took a personal interest in the professional performers at their courts.
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