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- 2025-02-23 Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ Amsterdam, NL
- 2022-07-30 EGLISE ST MICHEL Salon-de-Provence, FR
- 2021-11-27 ATHENEE THEATRE LOUIS-JOUVET Paris, FR
About Matthew Locke
A composer central to the musical life of turbulent mid-seventeenth century England, Matthew Locke learned music as a choirboy at Exeter. A 1648 manuscript that Locke subtitled When I was in the Low Countreys has been cited as evidence he was employed by the court of Prince Charles, who was then living in exile as a refugee from the English Civil War. By the time Locke is known to have returned to England in 1651, he had probably adopted the Catholic faith favored by Charles himself. By 1653, Locke had begun to establish himself as a force on the English stage. That year he may have colla...
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