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'''Floruit:''' ca. 1550
'''Floruit:''' ca. 1550


'''Biography:''' We know next-to-nothing about the life of Robert Adams. He was active in the middle of the sixteenth century, and was a gentleman of the Chapel Royal. (Peter Le Huray dismisses him as "a minor Chapel Royal composer", not "of any great consequence".) Adams's two surviving compositions, a ''Venite'' and a ''Nunc dimittis'', are both found in the [[Hamond Partbooks]].
'''Biography:''' Nothing is known about the life of Robert Adams. Peter Le Huray erroneously identified him as a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, but that man was one Edward Adams. Robert Adams's two surviving compositions, a ''Venite'' and a ''Nunc dimittis'', are both found in the [[Hamond Partbooks]]. These partbooks hint at affiliations with both London and East Anglia, which may in turn suggest possible areas of Adams's activity.


==List of choral works==
==List of choral works==

Latest revision as of 15:16, 28 November 2022

Life

Floruit: ca. 1550

Biography: Nothing is known about the life of Robert Adams. Peter Le Huray erroneously identified him as a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, but that man was one Edward Adams. Robert Adams's two surviving compositions, a Venite and a Nunc dimittis, are both found in the Hamond Partbooks. These partbooks hint at affiliations with both London and East Anglia, which may in turn suggest possible areas of Adams's activity.

List of choral works

 
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