John Marchant

(? - 1611)

English musician. Gentleman of the Chapel Royal 1593. There survive a Pavan in a Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, MS once owned by John Bull; an 'Allemanda' in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, No. 187; 'The Marchants Dream' in a MS in the British Museum, which is described in the table of contents as 'Marchant's Dreame'; and a Pavan and Galliard in another British Museum MS.





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