- Peter Lupo
Peter Lupo was a Jewish-Italian
viol player and composer active for 40 years or more at the court ofElizabeth I of England . His brother Joseph and their father Ambrose also served as court musicians. Born in Venice to Ambrose and his first wife Lucia, he and Joseph first went toAntwerp (where Peter joined the musicians' guild on20 August 1557 , married his first wife Koven or Katherine, and had his first child) before moving to England to join the royal viol consort. There, in 1567, Peter succeeded Albert of Venice, another Italian who had died on 17 January 1555. His nephewThomas Lupo the elder and sonThomas Lupo the younger also became court musicians. [http://www.hoasm.org/IVM/LupoT2.html]Royal gifts to Peter included "a payr of perfumed gloves" and "v songe books". [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ilUAvoqjJfUC&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104&dq=%22ambrose+lupo%22&source=web&ots=yfdaBv8iYD&sig=9zGInH0AWX9s83gBxae41QqTMP0&hl=en#PPA48,M1]
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External links
* [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ilUAvoqjJfUC&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104&dq=%22Joseph+Lupo%22+Tudor&source=web&ots=yfdaBv4l5M&sig=7ubOvnK-Zd0hgx2nPLQnC75I0ic&hl=en#PPA105,M1 Peter Holman, "Four and Twenty Fiddlers: The Violin at the English Court, 1540-1690"] (Oxford University Press, 1993), page 104-105
* [http://www.hoasm.org/IVM/LupoP.html HOASM: Peter Lupo]
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