Robert Wylkynson (sometimes Wilkinson) (ca. 1450 – Eton after 1515) was one of the composers of the Eton Choirbook.Michael Kennedy, Joyce Bourne The concise Oxford dictionary of music Wylkynson became parish clerk of Eton in 1496,Burgess & Heale (ed) The Late Medieval English College and its Context p184 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."Hugh Benham Latin church music in England, c. 1460–1575 1977 Page 95
Recordings Salve Regina Eton Choirbook Vol. I The Sixteen, dir. Harry Christophers Salve Regina I & II. Music from The Eton Choirbook Vol. IV Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford, dir. Stephen Darlington 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
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