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Events in 1623 2
1540 – 1623William ByrdEnglish Renaissance composerThe greatest English composer of the Renaissance, equally skilled in sacred and secular music, keyboard works and madrigals.
1576 – 1623Thomas WeelkesEnglish madrigal composerThomas Weelkes was one of England's greatest madrigalists whose bold harmonies and expressive text-setting produced some of the finest English madrigals of the late Renaissance.