John Dunstable

Dunstable was the most prominent English composer of the early Renaissance . . . slightly older than Dufay in France, and apparently quite influential on the Franco-Flemish school.  He was musician in the Duke of Bedford’s entourage during the Duke’s Regency of France after 1422 (when Henry V died), and performed his “Veni sancte Spiritus” at the coronation of Henry VI in Paris in 1431.  He died in 1453 in London and is buried at St. Stephen Walbrook.

Again we regret an unaccountably small representation of Dunstable’s considerable output in this collection.