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British Musical Biography: A Dictionary of Musical Artists, Authors and …, 1897
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1BIOGRAPHY.
3ARNOLD.
5Conductor. 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 LYON ARNOLD, born 1871, is a pianist and organist. He made his début at his father's concert, September 11, 1884 (with his sister Ethel, 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 vocal classes, &c.
7Arnold, 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. Doc. 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 1798. In conjunction with Dr. Calcott 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.
9Works.—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; Retna 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 Exham, 1789; New Spain, 1790; Basket rider, 1790; Surrender of Calais, 1791; Harlequin and Faustus, 1793; Children in the wood, 1793; Auld Robin Grey, 1794; Zopaki, 1795; Mountaineers, 1795; Love and money, 1795; Who pays the reckoning? 1795; Shipwreck, comic opera, 1796, Op. 40; Annian Day, 1796; Italian monk, 1797; Else and true, 1798; Cambro-Britains, 1798;
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