(Roughly) Daily

More in Eugene Chan‘s wonderful series Don’t Shoot the Piano Player. [TotH to friend SS.]

* Gustav Mahler

###

As we marvel at music, we might send well-composed birthday greetings to Henry Lawes; he was born on this date in 1596.  The leading English songwriter of the mid-17th century (and brother of composer William Lawes), Henry worked both for Charles I and (roundhead) John Milton (for whom he composed Arcades and arranged for Milton to write the masque Comus). At the Restoration Lawes was reinstated in his old positions in the King’s Musick; he was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey after his death in 1662.