Portret van Elizabeth I Tudor, koningin van Engeland op 48-jarige leeftijd in ovaal, Willem Jacobsz. Delff, Hendrick Hondius, Staten-Generaal, 1632
Lachrimae - Thomas Morley Hein Hof harpsichord
Thomas Morley (1557 or 1558 – October 1602) was an English composer, theorist, singer and organist of the Renaissance. He was one of the foremost members of the English Madrigal School. He was also involved in music publishing, and from 1598 up to his death he held a printing patent (a type of monopoly). He used the monopoly in partnership with professional music printers such as Thomas East.
Living in London at the same time as Shakespeare, he became organist at St Paul's Cathedral. He was the most famous composer of secular music in Elizabethan England. He and Robert Johnson are the composers of the only surviving contemporary settings of verse by Shakespeare.
