Robert Ramsey (composer)
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- If you're referring to the Pennsylvania congressman, see Robert Ramsey (congressman)Robert Ramsey (congressman)Robert Ramsey was born in Warminster Township, Pennsylvania on February 15, 1780. He attended school in Hartsville, Pennsylvania. He served in the Pennsylvania General Assembly from 1825 to 1831 and served in the 23rd United States Congress as a Jacksonian from Pennsylvania's sixth district, March...
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Robert Ramsey (1590s – 1644) was an English
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composer and organist.
He graduated as a Bachelor of Music
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from the University of Cambridge
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in 1616. He was organist of Trinity College, Cambridge
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from 1628 until 1644 and Master of the Children at the college from 1637.
In the 1630s, like John Hilton, he composed mythological and biblical dialogues, such as Dives and Abraham, Saul and the Witch of Endor, and Orpheus and Pluto.