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British Musical Biography, 1897
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1ARNE.
3Summer amusement; Winter amusement: Vocal melody, 1760; Glees, catches, etc., in Warren's collection and elsewhere. Overtures for orchestra. Sonatas for violin. Concertos for organ. Sonatas for harpsichord. The compleat musician, … being a collection of vocal and instrumental music … London [1760].
5Arne, Mrs. born Cecilia Young (born 1711, died October 6, 1789), was a singer of much note in her day and appeared in many of her husband's works, as well as at most of the leading concerts.
7Arnold, George Benjamin, composer and organist, born at Petworth, Sussex, December 22, 1832. Studied under Dr. S. Sebastian Wesley, and graduated Mus. Bac., Oxon., 1855, and Mus. Doc., 1861. Organist successively at St. Columba's College, 1852; St. Mary's, Torquay, 1856; New College, Oxford, 1860; and Winchester Cathedral, 1865, in which city he is resident at the present time. He has given concerts with his specially formed choir, and appeared with success as a pianist.
9Works.—Oratorios: Ahab, Exeter Hall, London, by the National Choral Society, April 6, 1864; The second coming of our Lord (MS.) Cantatas: The Song of David (MS.); Sennacherib, Gloucester Festival, 1883; The Song of the redeemed, written for St. James's church, New York, and produced there, 1891. Communion Service in G; Te Deum and Jubilate in D, etc. Anthems: Praise the Lord; Let the righteous be glad; The night is far spent, etc. Part Songs: Thou soft flowing Avon; Live like the rose, etc. Songs: Go, sit by the summer sea. Harmony (Lancashire Choral Union Prize Glee), and others. Pianoforte Music: Sonata in F minor; Sonata in D; Prelude and Fugue, etc.
11Arnold, John, "Philo Musicae," composer, of Great Warley, Essex, born [c. 1715-20]; died in February, 1792. He issued the following collections:—The Compleat Psalmodist, or organist's parish clerk's and psalm-singer's companion, in four books, 1741; also London, 1750; 4th ed., 1756; 5th ed., 1761; 6th ed., 1769; 7th ed., 1779. The Psalmist's recreation … 1757. The Leicestershire harmony, containing a set of excellent psalm tunes and anthems composed in modern taste for 4 voices, by an eminent master of the county of Leicester, and now first published by J. Arnold, London, 1759; also 2nd ed., 1771. Essex Harmony: being a choice collection of the most celebrated songs, catches, canons, epigrams, canzonets and glees, for 2, 3, 4, and 5 voices … vol. 1., 1750; vol. 2, 1769; various editions of both volumes.
13Arnold, Matthew, organist and conductor. Was organist at Leeds; in 1865 appointed to Wesleyan Chapel, Eccleshill, near Bradford; and of Enniskillen Parish Church in 1875. He very soon established a choral society there, and for nearly twenty years conducted a series of concerts, appearing likewise as violinist and pianist, and occasionally as lecturer on musical topics. An active and useful career was closed by his death, at Enniskillen, March 24, 1894. His son, Charles Haydn Arnold, born 1871, is a pianist and organist. He made his début at his father's concert, September 11, 1884 (with his sister Edith, two years his junior), and at the age of seventeen, in 1888, was appointed organist and choirmaster of St. Flannan's (cathedral) Church, Killaloe, near Limerick, where he is engaged as teacher, and also conductor of choral classes, &c.
15Arnold, Samuel, organist and composer, born London, August 10, 1740. He was educated in the Chapel Royal, under Bernard Gates and Nares. In 1763 he was composer to Covent Garden Theatre, and he afterwards became owner of Marylebone Gardens, in 1769, at which he produced various dramatic entertainments, of which two were written by Thomas Chatterton. He retired from this enterprise in 1771, after much loss. In 1771 he married Miss Napier. He was made Mus. Bac. and Doc., Oxford, 1773. In 1783 he succeeded Dr. Nares as organist and composer to the Chapel Royal, and in the following year acted as sub-director of the Handel commemoration. He was conductor of the Academy of Ancient Music from 1789, and organist of Westminster Abbey from 1793. In conjunction with Dr. Callcott he established the Glee Club, and was connected with many of the musical enterprises of his time. He died at London, October 22, 1802, and is buried in Westminster Abbey, where a monument to his memory is placed.
17Works.—Musical Dramas, &c.—Maid of the Mill, 1765; Rosamond, 1767; Portrait, 1770; Mother Shipton, 1770; Son-in-law, 1779; Summer amusements, 1779; Fire and water, 1780; Wedding night, 1780; Silver tankard, 1780; Dead alive, 1781; Castle of Andalusia, 1782; Harlequin Teague, 1782; Gretna Green, 1783; Hunt the slipper, 1784; Two to one, 1784; Turk and no Turk, 1785; Siege of Cuzzola, 1785; Inkle and Yarico, 1787; Enraged musician, 1788; Battle of Hexham, 1789; New Spain, 1790; Basket maker, 1790; Surrender of Calais, 1791; Harlequin and Faustus, 1793; Children in the wood, 1793; Auld Robin Grey, 1794; Zorinski, 1795; Mountaineers, 1795; Love and money, 1795; Who pays the reckoning? 1795; Shipwreck, comic opera, 1796, Op. 40; Bannian Day, 1796; Italian monk, 1797; False and true, 1798; Cambro-Britains, 1798;
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