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Also Known As viola da gamba family • viol family

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Purcell, Henry
Henry Purcell
English composer
William Byrd
William Byrd
English composer
Orlando Gibbons
English composer
Dolmetsch, pen-and-ink drawing by Edmond X. Kapp, 1920; in a private collection
Arnold Dolmetsch
British musician
Matthew Locke, portrait by an unknown artist; in the collection of the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford
Matthew Locke
British composer
William Lawes
English composer
Christopher Simpson
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Marin Marais
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Thomas Tomkins
English composer and organist
Alfonso Ferrabosco, II
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John Ward
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