Thomas Tudway (c.1650-1726)
- Te Deum ... for ye Solemnity and Consecration of ye Right Honourable Edward Lord Harley's Chappell at Wimpole (1721)
Performers: Ferdinand's Consort; Stephen Bullаmοre (conductor)
Painting: Thomas Hill (1661-1734) - Thomas Tudway
Further info: The Choral Music of Thomas Tudway
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English composer, organist and teacher. He probably was the son of
Thomas Tudway, a lay clerk of St George's Chapel, Windsor. He was a
Chapel Royal chorister whose voice broke shortly before 1668 so it's
deduced he was born circa 1650. In 1670 he succeeded Henry Loosemore as
organist of King's College, Cambridge, and acted as instructor of the
choristers from Christmas 1679 to midsummer 1680. He also became
organist at Pembroke College and Great St. Mary's. In 1681 he graduated
Music Bachiller. After the death in 1700 of Nicholas Staggins, the first
professor of music at Cambridge, he was chosen as his successor on 30
January 1705. His career was thus broadly based in Cambridge; he was
not, however, cut off from musical life in London. Noted for punning, on
28 July 1706, for an offensive comment of this nature slighting the
Queen, he was sentenced to be "degraded from all degrees, taken and to
be taken", and was deprived of his professorship and his three
organists' posts. On 10 March 1707 he publicly made submission and a
retraction in the Regent House. He was then formally absolved and
reinstated in all his appointments. Had he not offended the monarch, it
seems likely that he would have become a Composer to the Chapel Royal.
As a composer he focused almost wholly on church music, the greater part
of it occasional in character. There is no instrumental music by him,
and the secular part of his work consists only of a few songs printed in
the collections of his day, and a birthday ode addressed to Queen Anne.
Tudway died on 23 November 1726, and was succeeded as professor by
Maurice Greene in July 1730.
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