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1prevailed. John Thomas Hart was born on Dec. 17, 1805, and died Jan. 1, 1874. He was articled in May 1820 to Samuel Gilkes, who had learnt his business under William Foster, a very famous English maker of violins and violoncellos. As an articled pupil he had many opportunities for copying, repairing, and studying the peculiarities of Cremonese and other violins of Italian make, and so laid the foundation of his extensive knowledge of instruments. He began business at a time when amateur violinists were longing for famous Italian violins, and as his reputation for unerring accuracy of judgment grew rapidly he became the channel through which most of the greatest instruments came to England. He it was who formed James Goding's collection, that of Mr. Charles Plowden, most of Mr. Joseph Gillott's collection, and of the famous Adam group. His son and successor,
3GEORGE HART, was born in London, March 23, 1839. He was a violinist and writer, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Macfarren and Sainton. Though an excellent player on the violin, it is by his literary ability and by his wide knowledge of what may be called the literary side of the violin that he is best known. In 1875 he published his well-known book The Violin: its famous Makers and their Imitators, which has passed through many editions in England. Of it a French edition was issued in 1886. Next he published a description of Count Cozio de Salabue's purchase of the stock of violins remaining with Paul Stradivarius, and the tools and drawings of Antonius. In 1872 he classified the Gillott collection, a labour requiring the most accurate and certain knowledge, and in 1881 appeared his book on The Violin and its Music. He married a daughter of Dr. Steward, the inventor of the Euphonicon piano, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Hart died near Newhaven, April 25, 1891. He, again, was succeeded by his son,
5GEORGE HART, junior, the present head of the firm (1905), who was born near Warwick, Jan. 4, 1860. After being educated at Hampstead and in Paris, Hart entered his father's business, and is esteemed as a fine expert in the selection of wood for violins, while his firm is particularly noted for its exact reproductions of the work of Guarnerius, Stradivarius, and others. R. H. L.
7HART, CHARLES, born May 19, 1797, pupil of the Royal Academy of Music under Crotch. From 1829 to 1833 organist to St. Dunstan's, Stepney, and subsequently to the church in Tredegar Square, Mile End, and St. George's, Beckenham. In 1830 he published 'Three Anthems,' and in 1832 a 'Te Deum and Jubilate,' the latter of which had gained the Gresham Prize Medal in 1831. In April 1839 he produced an oratorio entitled 'Omnipotence.' He was author of a motet which gained a premium at Crosby Hall, 'Sacred Harmony,' and other compositions. He died in London, March 29, 1859.
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11HART, JAMES, born at York in 1647, was bass singer in York Minster until 1670, when he was appointed a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal and lay vicar of Westminster Abbey. He was the composer of several songs published in 'Choice Ayres, songs and dialogues,' 1676-84; 'The Theater of Musick,' 1685-87; 'The Banquet of Musick,' 1688-92, and other collections. He died May 8, 1718.
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15HART, JOSEPH BINNS, born in London in 1794, became in 1801 a chorister of St. Paul's under John Sale. Whilst in the choir he was taught the organ by Samuel Wesley and Matthew Cooke, and the piano by J. B. Cramer. At eleven he acted as deputy for Attwood at St. Paul's. He remained in the choir nearly nine years, and on quitting it became organist of Walthamstow, and private organist to the Earl of Uxbridge. He left Walthamstow to become organist of Tottenham. At the termination of the war in 1815, when quadrille dancing came into vogue, Hart became an arranger of dance music, and the 'Lancers' Quadrille' has continued in use ever since. Hart is credited with its invention, but there is evidence that it was danced in Dublin in 1817, two years before Hart's editions appeared. From 1818 to 1820 he was chorus master and pianist at the English Opera House, Lyceum. He composed the music for 'Amateurs and Actors' (1818), 'A Walk for a Wager,' and 'The Bull's Head' (1819), all musical farces; and 'The Vampire,' melodrama, 1820. In 1829 he removed to Hastings, commenced business as a music-seller, and was appointed organist of St. Mary's Chapel. Hart produced forty-eight sets of quadrilles, waltzes, and galopades, and An easy Mode of teaching Thorough-bass and Composition. He died at Hastings, Dec. 10, 1844.
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19HART, PHILIP, conjectured by Hawkins to be the son of James Hart (see above), was organist of St. Andrew Undershaft, and St. Michael, Cornhill. In 1703 he composed the music for Hughes's 'Ode in Praise of Musick,' performed at Stationer's Hall on St. Cecilia's Day, 1703. On May 28, 1724, he was appointed the first organist of St. Dionis Backchurch, at a salary of £30. In 1729 he published his music to 'The Morning Hymn from the Fifth Book of Milton's Paradise Lost.' He also published a Collection of Fugues for the Organ. Two Anthems by him are included in the Tudway Collection (Harl. MS. 7341). From Hawkins's account of him (chap. 175) he appears to have been a sound and very conservative musician, and a highly respectable man. Sir John elsewhere mentions his excessive use of the shake in his organ playing. Hart died in London at a very advanced age, in or about 1749. W. H. H.
21HARTMANN. A family of German origin established in Copenhagen for some four
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