George Handford (composer)
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George Handford (1582–5 – 1647),[1] was an English Baroque composer.[2]
He spent some time in Cambridge, and may have been a pensioner at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1604,[1] or a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.[3] He married twice, at St.-Dunstan-in-the-West Church, Cambridge.[1]
He published Ayres to be sung to the lute,[4] written in 1609, which is 'unique in that it is the only collection of lute songs that is a carefully prepared work by one man...and not simply an anthology of somebody's favourite songs'.[5]
