Richard Carlton

(1558?-1638?)

English composer and church musician. BA (Clare College, Cambridge) 1577. Vicar of St Stephen's Church (Norwich) from some time in the 1570s through 1591. Master of the choristers at Norwich Cathedral 1591-1603(?). Minor Canon of Norwich Cathedral from 1591 through some time in the next century. Published Madrigals to Five Voyces in 1601, a rather amateurish, technically unskilful set of compositions. BMus (Cambridge) 1601.




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