A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Amner, John

AMNER, John, Organist and Master of the Choristers of Ely Cathedral. He succeeded George Barcroft in 1610, and held the appointments till his death in 1641. He took his degree as Bachelor in Music at Oxford in May 1613. In 1615 he printed his 'Sacred Hymns of 3, 4, 5, and 6 parts, for Voices and Vyols,' dedicated to his 'singular good lord and maister,' the Earl of Bath. He composed much church music. Three services and fifteen anthems are preserved in the books at Ely; and several other specimens of his skill are to be found in MS. elsewhere. (Dickson's Cat. of Musical MSS. at Ely ; Rimbault, Bib. Madrigaliana.)

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