Fawkyner

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Aliases: John Fawkyner; Richard Fawkyner

Life

Born: unknown, 15th C.

Died: unknown, 15th or early 16th C.

Biography

Little is known of this composer other than from the inclusion of two of his works in the Eton Choirbook, a compendium of 15th century polyphony. An English composer, Reverend John Fawkyner was a rector at Horncastlem Lincolnshire in the 1490s (according to HOASM and Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland by Maggie Humphreys and Robert Evans). Another English composer, Richard Fawkyner was a Conduct (chaplain) at King's College, Cambridge (1482-84), having been admitted a Questionist in 1478 and Interceptor in Arts in 1482 at Cambridge University (A Biographical Register of the University of Cambridge to 1500 by A.B. Emden, Cambridge: CUP 1963).

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List of choral works


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