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1and of the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society. In 1875 he was appointed successor and director of musical instruction at Eton College. Works: Rebekah, oratorio; the Lord is King, for soli, chorus, and orchestra, Leeds Festival, 1883; 2 Services in E; Te Deum in B-flat; Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in D; Anthems; Songs and part songs; Organ music; Hymns, etc. He also edited a Hymnary for Novello, to which he contributed many of the airs.
3BARNES, FREDERICK EDWIN, born in London in 1858, died in Montreal, Canada, Sept. 21, 1880. Organist, pupil of Helmore in the Chapel Royal and, from 1872, of the Royal Academy of Music. Organist of All Saints' Church, London, 1872, of St. Margaret's, Liverpool, 1876, of the Cathedral, Montreal, in 1878-79, and in 1880 assistant organist of Trinity Church, New York. He was also conductor of the Montreal Philharmonic Society. Works: An opera, text by Mrs. G. L. Craik (MS.); Operetta, produced at the "German Reed Entertainments;" The 23d Psalm for soli, chorus, and orchestra; Organ and pianoforte music; Songs.
5BARNETT, JOHN, born at Bedford, England, July 1, 1802, still living, 1888. Dramatic composer. His father was a Prussian named Bernhard Beer, of the same family as Meyerbeer. When eleven John was articled to S. J. Arnold, proprietor of the Lyceum, for five years as a singer in return for musical instruction, received from C. E. Horn, and later from Price, chorus master of Drury Lane. After leaving Arnold he studied the pianoforte under Perez, organist of the Spanish Embassy, and under Ferdinand Ries, from whom he received his first lessons in harmony. In 1832 he was music director of the Olympic Theatre, and in August, 1834, his best work, The Mountain Sylph, was given at the Lyceum. After this Barnett visited Paris, and about 1837 went to Frankfort to study Vogler's system of harmony, and composition under Snyder von Wartensee; while there he wrote a symphony and two quartets (unpublished). In 1838, on returning to London, he joined Morris Barnett in an unsuccessful attempt to found an English opera house. In 1841 he settled at Cheltenham as singing-master. His compositions include dramatic pieces, operas, an oratorio, The Omnipresence of the Deity (1829), never performed in public, and more than four thousand songs. Works—Dramatic pieces: Before Breakfast, Lyceum, 1825; Monsieur Mallet; Robert the Devil; Country Quarters; Two Seconds; Soldier's Widow; The Picturesque; Married Lovers; The Deuce is in her; Charles the Twelfth; Carnival of Naples, Covent Garden, 1830; Pet of the Petticoats, Sadler's Wells, 1831; Paphian Bower, Olympic Revels, Court of Queen's Bench, Blanche of Jersey (written for Olympic Theatre); Win her and Wear her, Lyrical Version of Mrs. Centlivre's "Bold Stroke for a Wife," for Drury Lane. Operas: Fair Rosamond, Drury Lane; Farinelli, ib., 1838; Kathleen, with a libretto by Sheridan Knowles, and two other operas which have never been performed. Songs: Lyrical Illustrations of the Modern Poets (1834); Songs of the Minstrels; Amusement for Leisure Hours.—Grove; Fétis; Mendel.
7BARNETT, JOHN FRANCIS, born in London, Oct. 6, 1838, still living, 1888. Dramatic composer and pianist, nephew of the preceding, son of Joseph Alfred Barnett, professor of music. He studied the pianoforte under Dr. Wylde in 1849, gained the Queen's Scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music in 1850, and successfully competed a second time on its expiration in
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