Artist Info: Sheryngham

Sheryngham was an English composer active around the end of the fifteenth century..

One-named English composer Sheryngham is known by two works in an early Tudor manuscript of part songs known as the Fayrfax manuscript or Fayrfax Book (GB-Lbl Add. 5465). The text to Sheryngham's four-voice carol Ah, gentle Jesu has been tentatively identified as the work of poet John Lydgate, who died around 1451; if so, Sheryngham's setting of this long poem was most likely composed some time after Lydgate's death. [read more...]