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With support from the International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle University.
No biographical details known for sure:
Born 1453?
Possibly King's Scholar, Eton College: on election roll for 1467 when aged 14 (in same cohort as Walter Lambe of Salisbury).
Associated with the university/town (or, less plausibly, the earl) of Oxford in 1490s: GB-Cu Buxton 96 (containing E5) has attribution to 'Johannes Browne Oxonsiensis'.
Still alive, 1502-3, when he composed Stabat iuxta cristi crucem (E8) between deaths of Prince Arthur on 2 April 1502 and Queen Elizabeth of York on 11 February 1503 (Benham 1987).
If you would like to suggest corrections and additions, please contact Magnus Williamson.
With support from the International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle University.