{{Short description|English composer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Hugh Facy''' (fl. 1618; surname also ''Facey'', ''Facie'', ''Facye'' or ''Facio''<ref>{{Cite Grove |last=Jeans |first=Susi |title=Facy, Hugh}}</ref>), was an English composer from the Renaissance. He composed largely choral or keyboard pieces.
== Life == Facy acted as an assistant to John Lugge, the organist at Exeter Cathedral<ref name="HOASM">{{cite web |url=http://www.hoasm.org/IVM/Facy.html |title=HOASM: Hugh Facy (Facey, etc.) |access-date=2008-11-03}}</ref> and a secondary chorister.<ref name="Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians">{{cite book |title=Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians |last=Grove |first=George |editor=Eric Blom |editor-link=Eric Blom |year=1955 |publisher=St. Martin's Press}}</ref> He possibly traveled abroad after his term at Exeter.<ref name="A postcard from Rome?">{{cite journal |jstor=1004621|title=A postcard from Rome? |last= Maxim |first=Christopher |date=Autumn 2001 |journal=Musical Times |doi=10.2307/1004621 }}</ref>
== Music and influence == It is likely that Facy was a Roman Catholic in Italy, although it is not known whether he converted after he left England or was already Catholic when he left the country. The openly religious themes of his work, such as veneration of the Virgin Mary, make it probable that he composed much of his work abroad, as open Marian veneration was not tolerated in England at the time of his composing.<ref name="A postcard from Rome?"/>
== Works == * Ave Maris Stella - A keyboard piece. The only extant piece of the cantus firmus genre. * Magnificat - Written in Latin instead of Facy's native tongue, English.
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