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Henry Lawes
(baptized Jan. 5, 1596, Dinton, Wiltshire, Eng. — died Oct. 21, 1662, London) English composer. Lawes, who served at the court of Charles I, became the leading English songwriter of his time; some 435 of his songs survive. His theatrical music includes that to John Milton's masque Comus (1634). William Lawes, his brother, was also a noted composer.

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