Thomas Simpson (

Kent Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Gr ...

, 1582 – ) was an English composer who worked in Germany. Simpson, a generation younger than

William Brade William Brade (1560 – 26 February 1630) was an English composer, violinist, and viol player of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, mainly active in northern Germany. He was the first Englishman to write a canzona, an Italian form, ...

is first heard of at Heidelberg in 1608.Four and twenty fiddlers: the violin at the English court, 1540-1690 - Page 155 Peter Holman - 1996 -"William Brade and Thomas Simpson are examples of prominent Elizabethan composers of instrumental music ... Simpson, a generation younger, was born in Kent in 1582, and is first heard of at Heidelberg in 1608 ..."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpson, Thomas 1582 births 1620s deaths English Baroque composers 17th-century English classical composers English male classical composers 17th-century English male musicians English expatriates in the Holy Roman Empire