Four centuries after his death, his work is being celebrated anew
Their chief entertainer during that clandestine celebration was William Byrd: not only the finest English composer of his time but a staunch Catholic who stayed alive, prosperous and admired as cell, rack and noose menaced his co-religionists. One of several cases brought against him for “recusancy”—ie, refusal to attend Church of England services—ended in 1592 with a terse note: “Let the trial cease by order of the Queen.
His modern biographer, Kerry McCarthy, notes that Byrd figured as one of the Catholic “usual suspects”: often in the frame for a house search or a fine when trouble brewed. Fame, and prowess, protected him
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