Thomas Tallis (* January 30th 1505 - † November 23rd 1585) was a Compositeur and Organiste English.

Biography

Organist of the abbey of Waltham in the Essex in the neighborhoods of 1536 until the dissolution of the abbey in 1540, Tallis is named gentleman of the royal Vault in 1542. He composes then and holds the organ for Henry VIII, Edouard VI, Marie Tudor, and Elisabeth I {{Re}}. He remained a Catholique convinced all his existence.

He shares his position with the royal Vault with his disciple William Byrd. In 1575 the two men see themselves jointly conferring the exclusive privilege during blackjack years to import, print, publish, sell music and to print paper music. Tallis takes part in the publication in 1575 of the first book of the Cantiones Sacrae of Byrd, for which it composes 16 of the 36 parts.

Its prolific work counts in particular many Messe S and Motet S. Its work most famous is probably Spem In Alium , splendid a motet for forty independent votes. This feat of ingenuity contrapuntic is practically single in the musical literature (not of parallel Quintes!!!) - a motet with forty votes of the type-setter Florentin Alessandro Striggio, dating roughly from the same time, can have inspired Tallis.

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