Category: Biographies
In the Preface of his admirable contribution to the _Oxford History of Music_ (Vol. III.) the late Sir Hubert Parry writes: "The seventeenth century is musically almost a blank, even to those who take more than the average interest in the Art; and barely a score of composers'...
Though I may without scruple aver that nothing has done Mr. Salmon more kindness than that his books have had the honour to be answered, yet I have been forced to afford him thi...
7. Part 7At the early age of twenty-one, in 1669, he became Organist of Westminster Abbey, and the appointment, apparently, was not enough for his ambition (or, more probably, for his ne...
1. Part 1In the Preface of his admirable contribution to the _Oxford History of Music_ (Vol. III.) the late Sir Hubert Parry writes: "The seventeenth century is musically almost a blank,...
5. Part 5He was a prolific writer of songs and Masque-music, but his great opportunity was in writing the music and producing Milton's _Masque of Comus_, at Ludlow, in 1634. Milton was a...
2. Part 2The exact entry recording this fact in the Chapel Royal Cheque Book runs "1623, William Byrd, a Father of Musick, died the 4th of July, and John Croker, a Counter Tenor of Westm...
3. Part 3This statement is altogether incorrect. To {37} mention one, a song, _A Soldier's Farewell to his Mistress_ ("My love, adieu") is in existence, and I have often had it performed...
4. Part 4Almost the first fact of which we have very certain knowledge in connection with his life in England is the "Supplication" which he made for the degree of Bachelor of Music at O...
8. Part 8The poor man (Matteis) as a grateful legacy to the English nation, left with them a generall savour for the Itallian manner of Harmony, and after him the French was wholly layd...