John Ambrose

(fl. 1520-1545)

English composer. Clerk at King's College, Cambridge, 1481-2? Untitled piece in Oxford MS Ch. Ch. 1034, f. I., apparently the earliest example of solo organ music for English Cathedral. The only other recorded piece by a man of this name, not for keyboard, is a wordless canon in London Brit. Mus:, Roy. App. 58, f. 16v.





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