George Handford (composer)

George Handford (1582–5 – 1647),^[1] was an English Baroque composer.^[2]

He spent some time in Cambridge, and may have been a pensioner at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1604,^[1] or a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.^[3] He married twice, at St.-Dunstan-in-the-West Church, Cambridge.^[1]

He published Ayres to be sung to the lute,^[4] written in 1609, which is 'unique in that it is the only collection of lute songs that is a carefully prepared work by one man...and not simply an anthology of somebody's favourite songs'.^[5]