Robert Wylkynson Explained

Robert Wylkynson (sometimes Wilkinson) (ca. 1450 – Eton after 1515) was one of the composers of the Eton Choirbook.^[1] Wylkynson became parish clerk of Eton in 1496,^[2] then in 1500 he was promoted to Informator - the master of the choristers.

Only four works survive:

• 2x Salve Regina
• Jesus autem transiens/Credo in Deum à 13
• motet O virgo prudentissima (fragmentary)

But these works show Wylkynson to have been "an extremely ambitious composer and a more than competent one."^[3]

Recordings

• Salve Regina Eton Choirbook Vol. I The Sixteen, dir. Harry Christophers
• Jesus autem transiens/Credo in Deum à 13. Eton Choirbook Vol. III The Sixteen, dir. Harry Christophers
• Jesus autem transiens/Credo in Deum à 13. on À 40 Voix.Huelgas Ensemble, dir. Paul Van Nevel. HMC 801954
• Jesus autem transiens/Credo in Deum à 13. Eton Choirbook Tonus Peregrinus

Notes and References

1. Michael Kennedy, Joyce Bourne The concise Oxford dictionary of music
2. Burgess & Heale (ed) The Late Medieval English College and its Context p184
3. Hugh Benham Latin church music in England, c. 1460–1575 1977 Page 95