The Great Musicians: PurcellCummings, William Hayman
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The Great Musicians: Purcell
Cummings, William Hayman
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695
[Footnote 59: Meaning buried in the Church.]
[Footnote 60: The autograph score is in the British Museum.]
[Footnote 61: "On Wednesday next will be performed at York Buildings
Mr. Daniel Purcell's musick, made for last St. Cecilia's Feast, for the
benefit of Mr. Howel and Mr. Shore, with an addition of new vocal and
instrumental musick."--_London Gazette_, December 29, 1698.]
[Footnote 62: 1700 according to the new style.]
[Footnote 63: A pupil of Henry Purcell.]
[Footnote 64: "A Song sung by Mr. Mason in _Magbeth_, sett by Mr. D.
Purcell, 'Cease, gentle Swain,' in the Queen's library, Buckingham
Palace."]
[Footnote 65: Vol. ii. p. 759, new Edition. Novello & Co.]
[Footnote 66: Extracted from the Vestry books of St. Andrew's, Holborn.]
[Footnote 67: Baker's _History of Northamptonshire_, vol. i. p. 17.]
[Footnote 68: "Frances, daughter of Leonard Welsted, Gent, and Frances
his wife."]
[Footnote 69: 1750.]
[Footnote 70: The master was Bernard Gates.]
ORGANISTS OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
NAME DATE
John Howe 1549
Master Whitt 1560
John Taylor 1562
Robert White 1570
Henry Leeve 1575
Edmund Hooper, the first regular appointment as Organist 1588
John Parsons 1621
Orlando Gibbons 1623
Thomas Day 1625
Richard Portman 1633
Christopher Gibbons 1660
Albertus Bryne 1666
John Blow 1669
Henry Purcell 1680
John Blow 1695
William Croft 1708
John Robinson 1727
Benjamin Cooke 1762
Samuel Arnold 1794
Robert Cooke 1803
George Ebenezer Williams 1815
Thomas Greatorex 1819
James Turle (living)[71] 1831
MASTERS OF THE CHORISTER BOYS OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
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