Thomas Preston (composer)

Thomas Preston (composer)

Thomas Preston (died ca. 1563) was an English organist and composer who held posts at Magdalen College, Oxford, Trinity College, Cambridge, and St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.

Further reading

*Ian Payne, "Instrumental Music at Trinity College, Cambridge, c. 1594-c.1615: Archival and Biographical Evidence," "Music and Letters" 68 (1987), pp. 128-140. [http://ml.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/citation/68/2/128]

External links

* [http://www.hoasm.org/IVM/Preston.html Brief biography] at "Here of a Sunday Morning"


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