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

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
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