Michael East
(c.1580 - 1648)



English composer. Probably the son of Thomas East. Provided 
a madrigal to The Triumphs of Oriana(1601); took a B.Mus. at 
Cambridge in 1606; perhaps served the Hatton family for a time; 
cited as a clerk at Ely Cathedral, 1609-14. He was master of the 
choristers at Lichfield by 1618; supplied an anthem for St. John's 
College, Oxford, in 1620. He issued seven publications: two 
madrigal books (1604, 1606); two varied collections of madrigals, 
consort songs, and anthems, the earlier print also containing a 
series of viol fancies (1610, 1618); two books exclusively for 
viol (1618-38); and a collection of anthems and consort songs. 
Service music and other anthems remain in manuscript.


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