Peerson, Martin (c. 1572–1651)

English organist and composer. He took a music degree at Oxford in 1613 and was soon afterwards appointed organist and choirmaster at St Paul's Cathedral in London.

Works Church music contributions to Leighton's Teares and Lamentacions and Ravenscroft's psalter, other church music.

Chamber airs and dialogues for voices; Mottects or Grave Chamber Musique (on sonnets from Fulke Greville's ‘Caelica’) for voices and instruments (1630); fancies and almains for viols; pieces for virginal; Private Musick (1620).