William Brade

William Brade (* 1560 in England; † February 26, 1630 in Hamburg) was an English composer, violinist and viola da gamba virtuoso of the late Renaissance and early Baroque, who worked mostly in northern Germany.

Biography

About Brades early work is little known; he was probably around 1590 to Germany. In the years 1594-1596 he was on the court in Copenhagen of the Danish King Christian IV, then at the Brandenburg court in Berlin, from 1606 to 1608 and from 1611 to 1613 with Count Ernst III. active Holstein-Schaumburg, in Biickeburg. In the period from 1608 to 1610 and from 1613 to 1615 he worked in the Hamburg Council chapel, then in Copenhagen ( 1615-1618 and 1620-1622 ), Hall ( 1618-1619 ) and Güstrow ( 1619-1620 ), from 1622 to lock Gottorp, and finally back in Berlin.

The success Brades as an instrumentalist and composer is reflected in the considerable time for its number of five printed collections, exclusively composed by him or contain edited dances. He was the first Englishman, of which a Canzona and a solo violin piece is preserved. The last two prints published by Phalèse in Antwerp in 1619 and another in 1621 in Berlin. In various collection prints, he is represented with other composers of his time.