Richard Mico

Richard Mico (also Micoe, Micho, Meco, Myco; 1590–1661) was an English composer. He was born in Taunton, Somerset, the eldest of three sons of Walter Mico. The family, originally called "Micault", had immigrated to England from France several generations earlier. The Micos were a merchant family: the composer's cousin was Sir Samuel Mico (1608–66), who settled in London by the 1630s, made his fortune in overseas trade to become an alderman of London and Master of the Mercers’ Company, and was knighted after the Restoration.

Works Manuscript Mus. 517-20 in the library of Christ Church, Oxford is a set of four partbooks containing instrumental works by Richard Mico (as well as those by Alfonso Ferrabosco, John Ward and John Jenkins). The copyist is unidentified, English, 1630-50. This collection includes 17 of Mico's fantasias for four viols. Music MS 1197 in the library of the Royal College of Music, London is an autograph set of partbooks devoted exclusively to Mico's four-part works. Fretwork has published the score and parts of the complete four-part fantasias and pavans of Richard Mico in Richard Mico: The Four-Part Consort Music edited by Meredith Tyler (London: Fretwork Editions, 1st ed. 1992, 2nd ed. 1997). The Fretwork Edition was used for the Phantasm recording Still Music of the Spheres, 1996. All of Mico's known surviving works have been published in the Musica Britannica series: Musica Britannica, Volume 65; Richard Mico: Consort Music, 1994, edited by Andrew Hanley. Published by, Stainer & Bell Ltd, London. .: Four fantasies à2 Seven fantasies à3 with organ 17 fantasies à4 Four fantasies à5 Four pavans à4 Three pavans à5 An In Nomine à5 Latral à5

Recordings Phantasm: Still Music of the Spheres; Consorts by William Byrd and Richard Mico, Simax, PSC1143 Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet: Fantazia, Channel Classics Records CCS 16998 includes Mico's Pavan No.1 in C minor and Pavan No. 4 in C major