Thomas Greaves (
fl. 1604) was an English composer and
lutenist
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He was lutenist to
Sir Henry Pierrepont. He published in London in 1604 ''Songes of sundrie kinds''. It contained four madrigals; three of them, 'Come away, sweet love,' 'Lady, the melting crystal of thine eyes,' and 'Sweet nymphs,' were republished in the nineteenth century (1843 and 1857), with pianoforte accompaniment by
G. W. Budd.
References
*Edmund Horace Fellowes (2007 reprint), ''The English Madrigal Composers'', pp. 264–5.
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English classical musicians
17th-century English composers
English male composers
English lutenists
British performers of early music
17th-century male musicians