Artist Info: John Hoskins

John Hoskins (English lutenist/composer; fl. c. 1600–1620) was an English lutenist-composer whose historical footprint is unusually “continental”: he is attested as a composer within the so-called Königsberg lute manuscript (compiled c. 1600–1620, in French tablature), a cosmopolitan source associated with Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) that preserves repertory drawn from across northern and central Europe. Modern scholarly discussion of the manuscript explicitly notes that it contains music by “at least one English lutenist [read more...]