John Taverner is best-known for Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas and The Western Wynde Mass, and Missa Corona Spinea is often viewed as a masterwork.
10 Facts About John Taverner
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John Taverner appears to have come from the East Midlands, possibly being born in Tattershall, Lincolnshire, but there is no indication of his parentage.
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The earliest information is that in 1524, Taverner travelled from Tattershall to the Church of St Botolph in nearby Boston, as a guest singer.
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Two years later, in 1526, John Taverner became the first Organist and Master of the Choristers at Christ Church, Oxford, appointed by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey.
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Immediately before this, John Taverner had been a clerk fellow at the Collegiate Church of Tattershall.
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Wolsey fell from favour in 1529, and in 1530, John Taverner left the college.
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John Taverner married a widow, one Rose Parrowe, probably in 1536, and she outlived him until 1553.
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John Taverner is known to have settled eventually in Boston, Lincolnshire, where he was a small landowner and reasonably well-off.
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John Taverner is buried with his wife under the belltower at Boston Parish Church.
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The life of John Taverner was the subject of John Taverner, an opera by Peter Maxwell Davies.