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Also Known As viol family • viola da gamba family

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Purcell, Henry
Henry Purcell
English composer
William Byrd
William Byrd
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Orlando Gibbons
English composer
Dolmetsch, pen-and-ink drawing by Edmond X. Kapp, 1920; in a private collection
Arnold Dolmetsch
British musician
Matthew Locke, portrait by an unknown artist; in the collection of the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford
Matthew Locke
British composer
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William Lawes
English composer
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Christopher Simpson
British composer
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Marin Marais
French composer
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Thomas Tomkins
English composer and organist
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Alfonso Ferrabosco, II
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John Ward
English composer

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