Robert Johnson (Composer)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Robert Johnson (c. 1583 - c. 1634) was an English composer and lutenist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean eras. He is sometimes called "Robert Johnson II" to distinguish him from an earlier Scottish composer. Robert Johnson was the son of John Johnson (who was lutenist to Elizabeth I). In 1594 Robert's father died and in 1596 he joined the household of Sir George Carey as an apprentice. Carey, who became Baron Hunsdon the same year on the death of his father, was a patron of the lutenist John Dowland. (In 1598 Dowland moved to Denmark, having failed to get a job at the court of Elizabeth I: much later he was to work with Robert Johnson at the Jacobean court).