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There are two artists called John Jenkins:
1. John Jenkins (1592–1678) was an English composer.
Jenkins was born in Maidstone, Kent, the son of Henry Jenkins, a carpenter who occasionally made musical instruments. Little is known of his early life, and the first positive historical record of him is as one of the musicians who performed the Masque The Triumph of Peace in 1634 at the court of King Charles I.
The English Civil War that broke out in 1642 forced Jenkins, as it did many others, to migrate to the countryside. During the 1640s he was employed as music-master to two Royalist families. He was a friend of the composer William Lawes.
Around 1640 Jenkins revived the In Nomine, an archaic form for consort of viols, based upon a traditional plainsong theme. He wrote a notable piece of programme music consisting of a pavane and galliard depicting the clash of opposing sides, the mourning for the dead and the celebration of victory after the siege of Newark (1646).
In the 1650s Jenkins became resident music-master of Lord Dudley North in Cambridgeshire, whose son Roger wrote his biography. It was in these years, during the Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell, in the absence of much competition or organised music-making, that Jenkins took the occasion to write more than seventy suites for amateur household players.
1. John Jenkins (1592–1678) was an English composer.
Jenkins was born in Maidstone, Kent, the son of Henry Jenkins, a carpenter who occasionally made musical instruments. Little is known of his early life, and the first positive historical record of him is as one of the musicians who performed the Masque The Triumph of Peace in 1634 at the court of King Charles I.
The English Civil War that broke out in 1642 forced Jenkins, as it did many others, to migrate to the countryside. During the 1640s he was employed as music-master to two Royalist families. He was a friend of the composer William Lawes.
Around 1640 Jenkins revived the In Nomine, an archaic form for consort of viols, based upon a traditional plainsong theme. He wrote a notable piece of programme music consisting of a pavane and galliard depicting the clash of opposing sides, the mourning for the dead and the celebration of victory after the siege of Newark (1646).
In the 1650s Jenkins became resident music-master of Lord Dudley North in Cambridgeshire, whose son Roger wrote his biography. It was in these years, during the Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell, in the absence of much competition or organised music-making, that Jenkins took the occasion to write more than seventy suites for amateur household players.
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