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Walter Frye

Walter Frye has been played on NTS shows including Getting Warmer w/ Jen Monroe, with O Florens Rosa first played on 24 January 2018.

Walter Frye (d. 1474?) was an English composer of the early Renaissance.

Nothing certain is known about his life. He may have been a "Walter Cantor" at Ely Cathedral between 1443 and 1466, and he may have been the Walter Frye who joined the London Parish Clerks in 1456; he also may have been the Walter Frye who left a will at Canterbury in 1474.

Most of Frye's music survives in manuscripts from the continent, which has suggested to scholars that he spent…

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Ave Regina
The Hilliard Ensemble, Walter Frye
ECM New Series1993
Ave Regina
The Hilliard Ensemble, Walter FryeECM New Series1993
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O Florens Rosa
The Hilliard Ensemble, Walter Frye
ECM New Series1993
O Florens Rosa
The Hilliard Ensemble, Walter FryeECM New Series1993
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