William Byrd was a favourite composer of Elizabeth I
Four centuries after his death, his work is being celebrated anew
In 1586 a secret house party welcomed agents of a hostile power to England. Henry Garnet and Robert Southwell, two Jesuit priests, had travelled from Rome to support local Catholics and, they hoped, hasten the return of the true faith to a land ruled by the Protestant heretic Elizabeth I. Both would be gruesomely executed, Southwell in 1595, Garnet in 1606.
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “Free Byrd”
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