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Richard Browne

1630 – 1664

English composer and organist

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Lived 1630 – 1664 (aged 33–34). Richard Browne was an English organist and composer.

Richard Browne (c.1630– August 1664) was an English composer and organist associated with the Worcester Cathedral. Three of his anthems are included in John Barnard's The First Book of Selected Church Musick: By the waters of Babylon; If the Lord himself; and Unto him that loved us. Browne was a chorister at Worcester Cathedral in 1639, and was appointed lay clerk at that cathedral in 1642. In 1644 he was appointed a minor canon at the cathedral. He was promoted to organist and Master of the Choristers at the Worcester Cathedral on 26 April 1662. He remained in that post until his death two years later in August 1664. He was buried on August 27, 1664.

He is not to be confused with two other English composers of the same name, Richard Browne (fl 1614–1629) and Richard Browne (d. 1710).

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1630
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Died
1664, Worcester
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English composer and organist

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Richard Browne was born in 1630.

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Richard Browne died in 1664 in Worcester.

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Richard Browne was an organist and composer.

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Richard Browne was English.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Richard Browne

· Wikidata: Q116169503

· DBpedia: Richard Browne (c.1630–1664)

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