Audivi john taverner biography

John Taverner (c. 1490 – 18 October 1545) was an Englishcomposer and organist, regarded as the most important English composer of his era.^[1]

Career

Taverner was the first Organist and Master of the Choristers at Christ Church, Oxford, appointed by CardinalThomas Wolsey in 1526.

The college had been founded in 1525 by Cardinal Wolsey, and was then known as Cardinal College.

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Immediately before this, Taverner had been a clerk fellow at the Collegiate Church of Tattershall, Lincolnshire. In 1528 he was reprimanded for his (probably minor) involvement with Lutherans, but escaped punishment for being "but a musician".

Wolsey fell from favour in 1529, and in 1530 Taverner left the college.

As far as can be told, Taverner had no further musical appointments, nor can any of his known works be dated to after that time, so he may have ceased composition.

It is often said that after leaving Oxford Taverner worked as an agent of Thomas Cromwell assisting in the Di