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Charles Wesley Jr. (1757-1834)
- Quartetto (VI) for two Violins, a Tenor and Violoncello (1778)
Performers: Steve's Bedroom Band
Further info: Charles Wesley Jr. (1757-1834)
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English composer, 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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