29 Facts About Thomas Tallis

Thomas Tallis's compositions are primarily vocal, and he occupies a primary place in anthologies of English choral music.

Thomas Tallis is considered one of England's greatest composers, and is honoured for his original voice in English musicianship.

Thomas Tallis'storians have calculated that he was born in the early part of the 16th century, towards the end of the reign of Henry VII of England, and estimates for the year of his birth range from 1500 to 1520.

Thomas Tallis's only known relative was a cousin called John Sayer.

Thomas Tallis avoided the religious controversies that raged around him throughout his service to successive monarchs, though he remained, in the words of the historian Peter Ackroyd, an "unreformed Roman Catholic".

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Thomas Tallis was capable of switching the style of his compositions to suit each monarch's different demands.

Thomas Tallis stood out among other important composers of the time, including Christopher Tye and Robert White.

Thomas Tallis was employed there as the organist, tasked with directing chants from the organ A "Thomas Tales" is named as the "joculator organorum" at the priory who received an annual payment of £2.

Thomas Tallis' whereabouts are not known for the next few months until his employment at St Mary-at-Hill in London's Billingsgate ward.

Thomas Tallis took away a volume of musical treatises copied by John Wylde, once a preceptor at Waltham.

Thomas Tallis's name appears on a 1544 lay subsidy roll and is listed in a later document.

Thomas Tallis married, probably for the first time, in around 1552.

Thomas Tallis probably rented a house, by tradition in Stockwell Street.

Thomas Tallis was an eminent figure in Elizabeth's household chapel, but as he aged he became gradually less prominent.

Thomas Tallis composed in English, Latin, French, Italian, and other languages.

Thomas Tallis had exclusive rights to print any music in any language, and he and Byrd had sole use of the paper used in printing music.

Late in his life, Thomas Tallis lived in Greenwich, possibly close to the royal Palace of Placentia; tradition holds that he lived on Stockwell Street.

Thomas Tallis was buried in the chancel of St Alfege Church, Greenwich.

Thomas Tallis mary'd was, though children he had none, And lyv'd in love full thre and thirty yeresWyth loyal spowse, whose name yclypt was JONE, Who here entomb'd him company now beares.

Thomas Tallis provides a rhythmic variety and differentiation of moods depending on the meaning of his texts.

Thomas Tallis's restored the Sarum Rite, and compositional style reverted to the elaborate writing prevalent early in the century.

Thomas Tallis wrote nine psalm chant tunes for four voices for Archbishop Matthew Parker's Psalter published in 1567.

Thomas Tallis's setting of Psalm 67 became known as "Tallis's Canon", and the setting by Thomas Ravenscroft is an adaptation for the hymn "All praise to thee, my God, this night" by Thomas Ken, and it has become his best-known composition.

Thomas Tallis produced compositions for other monarchs, and several of his anthems written in Edward's reign are judged to be on the same level as his Elizabethan works, such as "If Ye Love Me".

Toward the end of his life, Thomas Tallis resisted the musical development seen in his younger contemporaries such as Byrd, who embraced compositional complexity and adopted texts of disparate biblical extracts.

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Thomas Tallis was content to draw his texts from the Liturgy and wrote for the worship services in the Chapel Royal.

Thomas Tallis composed during the conflict between Catholicism and Protestantism, and his music often displays characteristics of the turmoil.

Thomas Tallis is remembered as primarily a composer of sacred vocal music, in part because of his lack of extant instrumental or secular vocal music.

Fictionalised version of Thomas Tallis was portrayed by Joe Van Moyland in the 2007 BBC television series The Tudors.