About Robert Cowper
Lived 1465 – 1539 (aged 73–74). Robert Cowper was an English composer.
Robert Cowper or Robert Cooper (c. 1465–1539/40) was an English composer. He studied music at the University of Cambridge and sang as a lay-clerk there in the Choir of King's College. He was later appointed master of the choristers of the household chapel of Lady Margaret Beaufort.
He composed both sacred and secular music, including masses, motets and madrigals. The Gyffard partbooks contain a four part setting of Hodie composed by Cowper alongside other settings by John Taverner and Thomas Tallis.
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Who was Robert Cowper?
(c.1465–1539/40), English composer
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Robert Cowper was born in 1465.
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Robert Cowper died in 1539.
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Robert Cowper was a composer.
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Robert Cowper was English.
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· DBpedia: Robert Cowper (composer)
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