Charles Wesley (1757-1834)
- Concerto for the organ from 'Six concertos [d, F, D, C, g, Es] for
the organ or harpsichord with accompaniment for two violins, a tenor
& bass, two hautboys & two french horns ... opera II'
Performers: Roger Bеvаn Williams (organ); Scοttish Baroque Players
Painting: Unknown artist (19th Century) - Hemming's Portable House Manufactory. Clift House. Bristol
Further info: Six Eighteenth-Century Organ Concertos
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English organist and composer. He was the elder son of Charles Wesley
(1707-1788) and brother of Samuel Wesley (1766-1837). He inherited
musical ability from both parents. In infancy he displayed a talent
almost without parallel: before he was three years old he could ‘play a
tune on the harpsichord readily and in just time’ and ‘always put a true
bass to it’. His later development hardly fulfilled this promise.
During his childhood and adolescence his father discouraged him from
becoming a professional musician, and would not let him take up an
appointment as chorister or (later) organist at the Chapel Royal. But
under Joseph Kelway he became an excellent organist, and held
appointments at several dissenting chapels, the Lock Hospital Chapel
(1797-1801) and finally St Marylebone parish church. He learnt
composition chiefly from William Boyce, to whom he dedicated his set of
string quartets. His brother Samuel called him an ‘obstinate Handelian’
and indeed his compositions, especially those for organ and piano, are
extremely conservative in style. In 1822 he published a revised edition
of John Wesley's Sacred Harmony.
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