{{Short description|English organist and composer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''John Lugge''' (c.1580 – 1647–55) was an English organist and composer, who spent most of his musical career at Exeter Cathedral.<ref name=ODNB/>
==Early life and family== John Lugge was the son of Joan Downe and Thomas Lugge, a shoemaker.{{#tag:ref|Lugge's father has often mistakenly been identified as Thomas Lugge, a vicar choral at Exeter Cathedral.<ref name=ODNB/> See, for example, Grove Music Online.<ref name=Grove/>|group=nb}} He was baptized on 24 October 1580 at Barnstaple.<ref name=ODNB/> His brother Peter was brought up in Lisbon, Portugal.<ref name=Grove/> He married Rebecca, with whom he had six children.<ref name=ODNB/> One of their sons, Robert, studied music at St John's College, Oxford, and himself became a composer.<ref name=Grove/> Rebecca died in August 1644, but the year of John Lugge's death is unknown. The last documentary evidence relating to him is from 1647, where he transferred the lease of his house to one of his daughters.<ref name=ODNB/>
==Music career== ===As organist=== There are no known records concerning Lugge's early musical education, although it is possible that he was a chorister at Exeter Cathedral.<ref name=ODNB/> Lugge became the organist at Exeter Cathedral in 1603.<ref name=Grove/>{{#tag:ref|There is no record of the date of his appointment, but the first occasion that he signed for his salary was in March 1603.<ref name=ODNB/>|group=nb}} In 1605, he became lay vicar choral. He continued in both of these positions until 1647.<ref name=Grove/> From June 1608, his salary was divided with Edward Gibbons, who presumably shared some of his duties.<ref name=ODNB/>
===As composer=== Lugge composed three organ voluntaries, which musicologist John Steele has described as "the best examples of this peculiarly English genre written before the Civil War".<ref name=Grove/> Some of the compositions attributed to his son Robert may actually have been composed by him.<ref name=Grove/>
==Religion== In 1617, Lugge was examined by a bishop, accused of having Roman Catholic sympathies, an accusation prompted by a letter sent by his brother Peter. He was not convicted of any crime, with the bishop asserting: "Though I fear, and by conference do suspect that he hath eaten a little bit, or mumbled a piece of this forbidden fruit, yet I verily believe he hath spit it all out again". His house was searched in 1624, but nothing was found to support the claim.<ref name=Grove/>
==See also== *Hugh Facy
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<ref name=Grove>John Steele. "[http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/17144 Lugge, John.]" Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press, accessed February 21, 2014.</ref> <ref name=ODNB>{{Cite ODNB|id=67966|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/67966|title=Lugge, John}}</ref>
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