HAVPCD278 – O clap your hands
June 1st, 2001
HAVPCD278 – O clap your hands Sacred music by Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons was born in 1583 in Oxford. When he was 5 years old the family moved to Cambridge, where he became a chorister at King’s College from 1596 to 1598. He became a student there a year later and took his BMus degree in 1606. He probably sang as a Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal from about 1603, remaining in service there as an organist, eventually becoming the senior organist by 1625. He took his DMus at Oxford in 1622, and was appointed Organist of Westminster Abbey in 1623. He died suddenly in 1625. His small output of sacred music was written exclusively for the Anglican Church.
