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Apr 05, 1595 Faversham, England, United Kingdom Died on 22 Feb 1674 (aged 78)
English composer, lutenist and teacher
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- John Wilson (5 April 1595 – 22 February 1674) was an English composer, lutenist and teacher.
- Born in Faversham, Kent, he moved to London by 1614, where he succeeded Robert Johnson as principal composer for the King's Men, and entered the King's Musick in 1635 as a lutenist.
- He received the degree of D.Mus from Oxford in 1644, and he was Heather Professor of Music there from 1656 to 1661.
- Following the Restoration, he joined the Chapel Royal in 1662.
- He died at Westminster.Wilson was part of a coterie of artists and musicians surrounding the court of Charles I that included the likes of Ben Jonson, Inigo Jones, Anthony van Dyck, Henry Lawes and Giovanni Coprario.
- Following the execution of the King in 1649 he showed his clearly Royalist sympathies in his Psalterium Carolinum, a versification of the Eikon Basilike by Thomas Stanley, with a dedicatory poem by Henry Lawes, published in 1657.
