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He was a son of George Macfarren, dramatist, theatrical manager and amateur musician. He entered the Royal Academy of Music in 1829, where he was later Professor of Harmony and Composition (1837-47 and 1851-76) and Principal 1875-87.
He was a prolific composer of operas, oratorios, cantatas, songs and orchestral music; he also wrote many text books. Deterioration of his sight led to total blindness by 1860; but this did not curtail his activity; he dictated his compositions to an amanuensis, and he had a phenomenal memory. He was knighted in 1883.
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He was the son of a butcher, and was educated in the choir school of Trèves Cathedral. He trained as a mining engineer, studied music, and became a priest (later abb‚). He renounced Catholicism, however, and moved to Brussels in 1833 and paris in 1834, where he taught sight-singing and was a music critic.
He came to England in 1839, and vigorously promoted and conducted sight-singing classes; from 1842 to 1847 he centred his activities on Edinburgh, where he unsuccessfully applied for the chair of music in 1844. After 1847 he lived in Manchester.
He published Singing for the Million (1841 & 1842), and in 1842 founded Mainzer's Musical Times and Singing Circular which was taken over by Novello in 1844 and became The Musical Times.
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He was a notable Free Church musician who spent his whole life in Bristol. After being a chorister at the Cathedral, he was successively organist of Milk Street Methodist Free Church, Clifton Downs Congregational Church, and then Redland Park Congregational Church 1882-1909.
He composed piano pieces, anthems, cantatas, and a large number of hymn tunes. He was visiting music teacher at Clifton College for twenty years, accompanist to the Bristol Festival Choir, and conductor of the Bristol Free Church Choir Association.
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He was a chorister and then assistant organist at Norwich Cathedral. He was organist of St Peter's Church, Wolverhampton 1870-71; Tettenhall Parish Church 1871-75; Beverley Minster 1875-76; and King's College Cambridge 1894-1922.
He had a high reputation as a choir trainer, as an authority on Handel's music, and as an editor. He composed an oratorio and some church music, and was music editor of The Church of England Hymnal 1894.
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After education at Silliman University, Damagnete City, Philippines, she did postgraduate study at Hartford Seminary Foundation, Hartford, Connecticut and the School of Sacred Music in Union Theological Seminary, New York. She then returned to Silliman University as professor of Christian Education and Church Music.
She has made a special study of Filipino folklore, and has collected and arranged native melodies. She has written hymn texts in the Cebuano language, composed many hymn tunes, and has edited or co-edited several hymnals. As a member of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines, she has served on many of its committees.
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He was 16 years old before he could play a note, but was moved to study the organ by hearing Sir Herbert Oakeley [ Note* ] play Bach at Lambourn Parish Church. Within months, however, he became organist there and travelled 22 miles to Oxford each week to take lessons from John Stainer From 1871-74 he was organist to the Duke of Buccleuch at Dalkeith Palace, where a daily choral service was sung, and concurrently organist of St Peter's Episcopal Church, Lutton Place, Edinburgh. In 1874 he was invited to be master of the choir school under Stainer at St Paul's Cathedral; he became sub-organist in 1876 and organist from 1888-1916.
He was Professor of Organ at the Royal College of Music 1883, and at the Royal Academy of Music 1895. In 1897 he was knighted, having composed a Festival Te Deum which was performed on the steps of St Paul's for Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.
He wrote church and organ music and co-edited the New Cathedral Psalter 1908 and the New Cathedral Chant Book 1909. His manual The Art of Training Choir Boys 1892 became a standard work. He is buried in the crypt of St Paul's.
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He is said to have been the greatest figure in American hymnody and music education. Largely self-taught in music, he was leading the village choir and conducting singing classes at 16. In 1812 he went to Savannah, Georgia, where he worked in a dry goods store and then a bank, studying music in his spare time; for seven years he was organist and choirmaster at the Independent Presbyterian Church, and helped to organize the town's only Sunday School.
He compiled - from Gardiner's Sacred Melodies and elsewhere - a book of adaptations of outstanding compositions as hymn tunes: The Boston Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music 1822; this was immensely influential, going into 22 editions. In consequence he was invited to Boston in 1827, became President of the Handel and Haydn Society 1827-32, and was director of music at the Second Presbyterian Church 1831-44 and at Central Church 1844-51.
He published The Juvenile Psalmist 1829, the first ever music book for Sunday Schools; in 1833 he helped to establish the Boston Academy of Music with classes for children. He then devoted himself to music education, doing much to increase interest and raise standards in the USA, and causing singing to be included in the curriculum of Boston day schools in 1838.
He toured Europe in 1837 (studying Pestalozzi methods) and again in 1851-53. He lived in Orange, New Jersey 1853-72, where he founded a church and Sunday School, and continued writing and composing. Either alone or in collaboration he published over sixty song books which had enormous sales, and himself composed more than 1000 tunes. His vast library of music is now at Yale University.
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He was educated at Watford Grammar School and Queen Mary College London. He was successively Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University College London 1952-85, and is the author of three science and engineering text-books.
He was organist of the former Congregational Church, Redhill, Surrey 1964-88, and was president of the Organ Club 1968-70. He edited the Bulletin of the Hymn Society of G.B. and Ireland from 1975 to 2002, with an additional spell as acting editor in 2003. He served on the music sub-committees for Hymns & Psalms and Rejoice & Sing.
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He was the third son of the Rector of Colmworth, and was educated at Bedford Grammar School and at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge. For a time he was a private tutor at Windsor, and became a close friend and pupil of G.J.Elvey who was then organist of St George's Chapel. He was a curate at St Mary's, Nottingham 1853-59, and founded the Working Men's Institute there; he was curate-in-charge 1859-69, and then rector 1869- 1907, of North Coates, near Grimsby. He retired to live with his eldest son, who was vicar of Tetney.
He composed over a hundred hymn tunes and other church music, edited the first series of The Village Organist 1887, and published several books of hymn tunes.
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He was a chorister at Westminster Cathedral, and a pupil of Anthony Milner. He is Director of a music publishing company.
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(The Rejoice & Sing Enchiridion:edited by David Goodall; last amended 17/5/03)