John Farmer (composer)

[3] Farmer was under the patronage of the Earl of Oxford and dedicated his collection of canons and his late madrigal volume to his patron.

[5][6] In 1599, he moved to London and published his only collection of four-part madrigals, which he dedicated to Edward de Vere.

[8] Giles Farnaby dedicated a pavan to him,[citation needed] included in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book as Farmer's Paven (no.

Farmer's Divers & Sundry Waies was the source of the fugues in Michael Maier's book, Atalanta Fugiens.

[9] Of the 50 three-part fugues in Atalanta Fugiens, 40 have been shown by Ludwig to be based on Farmer's compositions in Divers & Sundry Waies.