Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Orlando Gibbons

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English composer Orlando Gibbons.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
Orlando Gibbons

Orlando Gibbons was an English composer and keyboard player who was one of the last masters of the English Virginalist School and English Madrigal School. The best known member of a musical family dynasty, by the 1610s he was the leading composer and organist in England, with a career cut short by his sudden death in 1625. As a result, Gibbons's oeuvre was not as large as that of his contemporaries, like the elder William Byrd, but he made considerable contributions to many genres of his time. He is often seen as a transitional figure from the Renaissance to the Baroque periods.

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it. — © Orlando Gibbons
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore, thus sang her first and last, and sang no more: 'Farewell, all joys! O Death, come close mine eyes! More Geese than Swans now live, more Fools than Wise.'
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