John Wilson

John Wilson was a renowned lutenist considered by many to become the very best in Britain during his period. Interesting, however, isn’t the transfer of lute music which he didn’t compose, but instead, his music. Operating Wilson was a town wait, an associate from the King’s Musick, a Gentleman from the Chapel Royal, and a teacher of music at Oxford having previous received his Doctorate at that univeristy. Though he composed theorbo pieces within a collection dated from 1656 in prelude-like style and in every major and small secrets, Wilson’s hallmark items remain his tunes. All the tunes which Wilson made up for takes on betrween 1614 and 1623 are extant including a music in a overall performance of “Very much Ado About Nothing at all”. A lot of his tunes, which were created to truly have a lot of well-known appeal, were within his collection “Cheerful Ayres or Ballads.”