Chris Brody
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Music theorist and pianist at University of Louisville, he/him, the most wonderful woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped
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![In 1586 he received his degree from Oxford, and he became a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal that same year. In 1591, following the death of John Blitheman, he became organist at the Chapel Royal; in 1592 he received his doctorate from Oxford, and in 1596 he became the first professor of music at Gresham College on the recommendation of Queen Elizabeth, who admired him. There is some evidence that she sent Bull on espionage missions: his eighteen-month trip to the continent in 1601–02, ostensibly for health reasons, has never been satisfactorily explained, and his whereabouts there, apart from a visit to Brussels, then in the Spanish Netherlands, remain a mystery.[4][5] On the death of Elizabeth, he entered into the service of King James, establishing a reputation as a skilled composer, keyboard performer and improviser.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c23ebk76cyagxpocpr3zfvpe/bafkreig62l5lhhmsm6v5w4iy6syua72zwvw4xq6xuhavpc7kt5fqjsjcou@jpeg)
![Just after publishing seven keyboard pieces in Parthenia, Bull left England for good, secretly and with great haste in October 1613. His salary at the Chapel Royal was paid in lieu to Edmund Hooper.[7] Bull was fleeing the wrath of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, and King James himself; the charge this time was adultery. William Trumbull, the English envoy in the Low Countries, after first attempting to cover for him – but later fearing for his own position if he continued to do so – wrote to the King in early 1614:
Bull did not leave your Majesties service for any wrong done unto him, or for matter of religion, under which fained pretext he now sought to wrong the reputation of your Majesties justice, but did in that dishonest matter steal out of England through the guilt of a corrupt conscience, to escape the punishment, which notoriously he had deserved, and was designed to have been inflicted on him by the hand of justice, for his incontinence, fornication, adultery, and other grievious crimes.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c23ebk76cyagxpocpr3zfvpe/bafkreifdwflmyc2giadess6z6bzgj47lacjrgu2mchcyb7h5r6ljym5wda@jpeg)
