William Felton (1715-1769) - Concerto (IV, D Major) for the Organ, Op.7 (1762)
Performers: Roger Bevan Williams (organ); Scottish Baroque Players
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English priest, organist and composer. He was the son of George Felton, a
clerk, and was educated at Manchester Grammar School and St John's
College, Cambridge. On 11 August 1742 he was ordained priest by the
Bishop of Hereford, became a vicar-choral and sub-chanter of the
cathedral on 3 February 1743, and minor canon in 1760. From 1744 he also
held various parochial appointments in Herefordshire. Felton was a
steward at the Three Choirs Festival in Hereford in 1744 and in
Gloucester in 1745; and his name is on the list of subscribers to Thomas
Chilcot's Twelve English Songs (1744). He seems to have enjoyed wide
popularity as a performer on the harpsichord and organ. Charles Burney,
who considered Felton a better performer than composer, recollected
hearing in his youth ‘the celebrated Mr Felton’ play at Shrewsbury, and
wrote in his History of his ‘neat finger for common divisions and the
rapid multiplication of notes’. As a composer, he wrote several
concertos both for harpsichord or organ which were modelled on those of
George Frideric Handel. His concertos were widely acquired by music
society libraries and private collectors, and his music frequently
appeared in 18th-century domestic manuscript anthologies.
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