Who is the musician depicted in 'The Tudors' on BBC 9.00 pm Friday nights?

Question

He has a very youthful apperance with an immature style of whispy moustash. Shown in a homosexual relationship with one of the King's favourites.

Answer 1

Not sure who the musician depicted in "The Tudors" is.  

It is easy for us to forget that King HenryVIII was himself a very accomplished musician and composer.  Although it is usually said to be anonymous, many believe that the King wrote that most famous Tudor love song "Green Sleeves".

"Alas my love, you do me wrong.....etc."  Not sure who, but could be the King's lament for a lost love, someone we may not actually know of.

It could of course just as easily be Ann Bolyn.

Ann of the Thousand Days.

Answer 2

There is also no historical evidence that composer Thomas Tallis was bisexual, as portrayed in the series. Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 – 23 November 1585) was an English composer. Tallis flourished as a church musician during the often stormy 16th century in England. He occupies a primary place in anthologies of English church music, and is considered among the best of its earliest composers.

Little is known about his early life, but there seems to be agreement that he was born around 1505, toward the close of the reign of Henry VII. His first known appointment to a musical position was as organist of Dover Priory, a Benedictine priory at Dover (now Dover College) in 1532. His career took him to London, then (probably in the autumn of 1538) to the Augustinian abbey of Holy Cross at Waltham, until the abbey was dissolved in 1540; then he went to Canterbury Cathedral, and finally to Court as Gentleman of the Chapel Royal in 1543, composing and performing for Henry VIII, Edward VI (1547-1553), Queen Mary (1553-1558), and Queen Elizabeth I (1558 until he died in 1585). Throughout his service to successive monarchs as organist and composer, Tallis avoided the religious controversies that raged around him.

Tallis married around 1552; his wife, Joan, outlived him by four years. They apparently had no children. Late in his life he lived in Greenwich, likely close to the royal palace: a local tradition holds that he lived on Stockwell Street.

Thomas Tallis died peacefully in his house in Greenwich in November 1585, and was buried in the chancel of the parish of St Alfege's Church. A couplet from his epitaph reads:

As he did live, so also did he die, In mild and quiet Sort (O! happy Man).

Answer 3

I may be wrong but could it be Thomas Tallis?

Answer 4

Thomas Tallis - i don't know why depict him as  bisexual

His music is sometimes boring, if we compare it to those of Holborne or John Dowland.

Answer 5

Thomas Tallis. The records do not show that he was homosexual.

Answer 6

Sorry i know its gonna irritate you not answering your question.

I love the Tudors, such a good series. Did i miss it last night, cause i finished work at 9pm but didnt get back til 9.30pm cause we had to pop out and completely forgot about it when we got back and saw Children in Need so was it on?