Hilton, John (the Elder)
Hilton, John (the Elder)
Hilton, John (the Elder), English organist and composer, father of John Hilton (the Younger); b. place and date unknown; d. Cambridge, before March 20, 1608. He was a countertenor at Lincoln Cathedral (1584-94), then organist at Trinity Coll., Cambridge (from 1594). It is not possible to determine which sacred works ascribed to John Hilton are by the Elder or the Younger. The anthem Call to Remembrance is ascribed to the Elder in one source. His only known secular work is the madrigal Fair Oriana, Beauty’s Queen, publ, in Morley’s The Triumphes of Oriana (London, 1601).
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