Elway Bevin (c.1554-1638)[1] was a Welsh-born organist and composer.

Browning à3 from the Baldwin Partbooks, Oxford. Christ Church, Ms.979-83 (ca.1570)

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In Nomine à5, No.2, Oxford. Bodleian Library, Mus.Sch.d.212-16 (ca.1610)

Performed by Phillip W. Serna, Treble, Tenor & Bass Viols

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Briefly a vicar choral at Wells Cathedral, in 1585 he was appointed Master of the Choristers at Bristol Cathedral. He was sworn a gentleman-extraordinary of the Chapel Royal on 3 June 1605, and is said to have been a pupil of Thomas Tallis.

In 1631 Bevin published the work by which he is best known, 'A Briefe and Short Instruction of the Art of Musicke...'[2] and Benjamin Cosyn's 'Virginal Book' has a service by him included amongst six entitled 'These are ye Six Services for the King's Royall Chappell.'

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Bevin, Elway (DNB00)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.