Philip Hayes (1738-1797)
- Concerto (II, B-flat major) for the Organ (1769)
Performers: Stеphеn Fаrr (organ); London Bаch Consort
Further info: Organ Concertos
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English composer, organist and singer, second son of William Hayes
(1708-1777) and brother of William Hayes Jr. (1741-1790). He received
his earliest musical education from his father. In 1763 his masque
'Telemachus' earned him a BMus degree, and in 1767 he spent a short
period as a singer at the Royal Chapel in London. In 1776 he was
appointed as organist of the New College in Oxford and a year later
succeeded his father as professor of music, at the same time earning his
doctorate. Over the next decade he added positions as organist at
Magdalen College, the University Church, and St. John’s College, where
he became known for his lectures consisting of his own odes and
oratorios. In 1780 he founded the Festival of the Sons of the Clergy at
St. Paul’s in London, and thereafter he commuted frequently between the
two cities. He hosted Joseph Haydn at Oxford when that composer arrived
to receive an honorary doctorate there. He was a prolific composer of
catches, glees, and such. His works include 48 anthems, over 30 songs,
16 Psalms, 16 odes, two oratorios, the aforementioned masque, two
services, six keyboard concertos (1769), and six violin sonatas. As a
composer, his natural language was a mixture of galant and early
classical idioms allied with a characteristically English preference for
simple, symmetrically phrased melodies and an assured technique founded
upon a thorough acquaintance with the works of Handel. His six keyboard
concertos (1769) were the first published in England to offer the
option of performance on the fortepiano, and beginning with the masque
'Telemachus' (1763) his large-scale works often included parts for
clarinets.
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