TOBIAS HUME
Musical Humors, London 1605

Ref: AV9837

• Jordi Savall

Tobias Hume (ca.1569-1645) was an English violist and composer who probably started to write music very late in his life. Even if he was one of the best violists of his time, he had a very particular position in the world of the musicians of the Renaissance, most of them being very close to, and seeking the protection of, Royal courts, which was not his case. But the Captain Tobias Hume was also an officer who devoted his life to the army. He was a mercenary for the King of Sweden and the Emperor of Russia before he returned to London sought to be engaged by the King to fight the rebellion in Ireland.

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