Previous posts for January 30th are here: Johann Joachim Quantz; Thomas Tallis (2020), Johann Joachim Quantz (2021), and Thomas Tallis; Harold Prince (2022)
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Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 – 23 November 1585) was an extremely important English composer. We do not, in fact, know when he was born, but some sources cite tentative evidence pointing to 30 January, so... why not?
Career Path
Tallis served at court as a composer and performer for Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I. He avoided the religious controversies that raged around him throughout his service to successive monarchs. - adapted from Wikipedia
It was nimbly inventive of Tallis
To continue his work at the palace;
He remained on the scene
Under each King and Queen
By avoiding sectarian malice.
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