Samuel Arnold (1740-1802)
- Overture (III) in F (c.1781)
Performers: Tοrοntο Camerata; Kevin Mallοn (conductor)
Further info: Samuel Arnold (1740-1802) - Overture (VI) in D (c.1781)
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English composer, conductor, organist and editor. He was the son of
Thomas Arnold, a commoner, and, according to some sources, the Princess
Amelia. He received his education as a Child of the Chapel Royal (c.1750
to August 1758) and on leaving became known as an organist, conductor
and teacher, and composed prolifically. He began writing music for the
theatre in about the year 1764. A few years later, he became the
director of music at Marylebone Gardens, for which he wrote much of his
popular music. In 1777, he worked for George Colman the Elder at the
Little Theatre, Haymarket. In 1783, he became organist at the Chapel
Royal and in 1793 he became the organist at Westminster Abbey, where he
was eventually buried. He also wrote the earliest version of Humpty
Dumpty. He was a close friend and associate of Haydn. His compositions
include sonatas, symphonies, and oratorios, as well as ballad operas,
farces, and pantomimes. His Cathedral Music (1790), a collection of
service music, was an important supplement to William Boyce’s Cathedral
Music.
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