He was natural at Dinton in Wiltshire, and received his musical education from either John Cooper, better known under his Italian pseudonym Giovanni Coperario, a notable composer of the day. Inside 1626, Lawes was received as one of a gentlemen of a chapel royal, & held a position until the Commonwealth put a prevent to religious music. Potentially when you took that period of time while forgoing music, Lawes continued his act as a composer, & a celebrated collection of his vocal pieces, Ayres & Dialogues for 1, Two and 3 Voyces, was published inside 1653 and followed by two more books under a equivalent title around 1655 and 1658 respectively. On the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Lawes returned to the royal chapel, and composed an anthem for the coronation of King Charles II. He was buried inside Westminster Abbey.

Lawes's title has turn into known beyond musical circles because of his friendly relationship by having John Milton, for whose masque, Comus, he supplied the incident music for the number one performance around 1634. the poet reciprocally immortalized his friend around a notable sonnet in which Milton, with a musical comedy perception non most common amongst poets, describes the neat merit of Lawes. His careful attention to a words of a poet, a manner where his music seems to develop from either victims words, the hone coincidence of the musical theater by owning the metric accent, stimulator Lawes's songs to become regarded by the few when in a level sustaining people of Robert Schumann or Franz Liszt. At a equivalent period he is non lacking within echt melodic invention, & his concerted music shows skilled apply of counterpoint.

Henry Lawes was a brother of William Lawes, also the composer.

This entry was originally from either a 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.