Rose Consort of Viols
The Italians are Coming...
Music by Italian musicians in Elizabethan England
1540 saw Italian musicians arriving at Henry VIII’s court, bringing with them a consort of recently developed viols.
The Rose Consort of Viols trace their influence in establishing the viol consort at the centre of Elizabethan and Jacobean music-making, as later generations of these immigrants helped to create an English taste for all things Italian.
The Rose Consort of Viols trace their influence in establishing the viol consort at the centre of Elizabethan and Jacobean music-making, as later generations of these immigrants helped to create an English taste for all things Italian.
Benslow Music
Sat, 20 June 2026
Benslow Music
7:30pm
£20 (conc. available)
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1540 saw Italian musicians arriving at Henry VIII’s court, bringing with them a consort of recently developed viols.
The Rose Consort of Viols trace their influence in establishing the viol consort at the centre of Elizabethan and Jacobean music-making, as later generations of these immigrants helped to create an English taste for all things Italian.
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Benslow Music
Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG4 9RB
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