Cuthbert Hely

Cuthbert Hely was an English lutenist, who worked in the first half of the 17th century.

Life

About his life nothing is known. If Hely his art should have learned firsthand, however, that with musicians such as John Dowland, then he might have been born around 1570 and would have been an elderly man in 1640.

An earlier view that Hely have compiled the Cherbury - According to the book, and the teacher was Lord Herbert is, contrary to that Lord Herbert claims to the lute around 1603 largely self-taught learned and that Helys compositions be entered only from the third and final hand in the lute book were.

Whether the composer with a Cuthbert Hely is identical, which is occupied during the period in question in the English Ludlow, remains questionable.

Work

Eight pieces of music for lute by Cuthbert Hely are the lute book of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury ( four fantasies, three Preludes and a Sarabande ). The entries are dated to around 1640. A single additional piece of music by Hely is yet known, a four-part Air in the manuscript GB- Lbl Add. 18940, which dates to about 1650.

Although only a few pieces of Hely are handed down, is his music, which continues the musical art of John Dowland in the onset of the Baroque era, represents a peak of sound art at the dawn of the Baroque

Output

• Cuthbert Hely: Eight Pieces by Cuthbert Hely for Ten - Course Lute. transferred and edited by Matthew Spring. The Lute Society Music Editions, Oldham 1993, ISBN 0-905655-04-4. ( French tablature and sheet music )