Taverner was innate around to the south Lincolnshire. He was listed witharound the church in Tattershall within a early 1520s, and in 1526 became the number one precentor at Key's College, Oxford (today Christ Church, Oxford) in 1526. He left there inside 1530 with been briefly imprisoned for heresy inside 1528 after becoming exposed in the Lutheran scandal. He was afterwards a lay clerk at the parish church of St. Botolph around Boston.

These are typically said that Taverner later on abandoned music & worked as an professional of Thomas Cromwell assisting in the Dissolution of the Monasteries, although the veracity of this is today thought to exist as extremely refutable.

Virtually all of Taverner's music is vocal, & includes masses, Magnificats and motets. A bulk of his output is thought to date from either a 1520s. His better known mass is according to the popular song, " The Western Wynde" (John Sheppard and Christopher Tye later also wrote people according to this equivalent song). The a portion of the Benedictus of his mass Gloria tibi Trinitas wwhen utilized as a paradigm for implemental works by numerous more composers sustaining a title In nomine.

A life of Taverner was a subject of Taverner, an opera by Peter Maxwell Davies.

ja:ジョン・タヴァーナー