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FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 322 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FIELD, See also:FREDERICK (18o1—1885) , See also:English divine and biblical See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:London and educated at See also:Christ's See also:hospital and Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he obtained a fellowship in 1824. He took orders in 1828, and began a See also:close study of patristic See also:theology. Eventually he published an emended and for the See also:pianoforte are now forgotten. Neither do his quartets for strings and pianoforte hold their own by the See also:side of those of the See also:great masters. But his "nocturnes," a See also:form of See also:music highly See also:developed if not actually created by him, remain all but unrivalled for their tenderness and dreaminess of conception, combined with a continuous flow of beautiful See also:melody. They were indeed See also:Chopin's See also:models. Field's See also:execution on the pianoforte was nearly allied to the nature of his compositions, beauty and poetical See also:charm of See also:touch being one of the See also:chief characteristics of his See also:style.

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