He lived until well into the seventeenth century without writing music in the new … Byrd - Mass for Five Voices - Credo in unum Deum - YouTube 3. William Byrd (1540 or late 1539 –1623) was one of the most celebrated English composers in the Renaissance. It was written around 1592-3 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, and is one of three settings of the Mass Ordinary which he published in London in the early 1590s. The Mass for Four Voices is a choral Mass setting by the English composer William Byrd (c. 1540–1623).
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