Matthew Locke

Matthew Locke (Exeter 1621 or 1622 - London, August 1677) is a Compositeur English.

Biography

Chorus-singer with the cathedral of Exeter between 1638 and 1641, this musician lived at the time of Charles II of England, after the era of Richard Cromwell. He seems to be himself exiled with the Netherlands between 1640 and 1651, date on which he returns to England. He was the friend of Henry Purcell, this last succeeding to him the court of the king as appointed type-setter. He wrote a treaty of musicology: Melothesia .

Principal works

Cupid and death , incidental music written in collaboration with Christopher Gibbons, 1653;
Music for the crowning of Charles II , 1661;
the Storm , incidental music on the part of William Shakespeare, 1667: opening, interludes, final gun;
Macbeth , 1672, sometimes allotted to Purcell;
the Mask of Orphée , incidental music, 1673
Psyché , perhaps the first opera (or Semi-opera) English, on a booklet of Thomas Shadwell, 1675.

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