Matthew Locke (composer)

At the age of eighteen Locke travelled to the Netherlands, possibly converting to Roman Catholicism at the time.

Locke, with Christopher Gibbons (the son of Orlando), composed the score for Cupid and Death, the 1653 masque by Caroline-era playwright James Shirley.

[3] Locke was one of the quintet of composers who provided music for The Siege of Rhodes (1656), the breakthrough early opera by Sir William Davenant.

[4] Locke wrote music for subsequent Davenant operas, The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru (1658) and The History of Sir Francis Drake (1659).

(His successor in the latter office was Henry Purcell,[7] who composed an ode on the death of Locke entitled What hope for us remains now he is gone?, Z.

Matthew Locke.
"Up and Down This World Goes Round", three voice round by Matthew Locke. [ 1 ] Play ⓘ
Saraband by Matthew Locke, one of his earliest known keyboard works, found in the manuscript Drexel 5611 , a 17th-century manuscript in the Music Division of the New York Public Library