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See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
FIELD, See also:JOHN (1782—1837) , See also:English musical composer and pianist, was See also:born at See also:Dublin in 1782. He came of a musical See also:family, his See also:father being a violinist, and his grandfather the organist in one of the churches of Dublin. From the latter the boy received his first musical See also:education. When a few years later the family settled in See also:London, Field became the favourite See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of the celebrated See also:Clementi, whom he accompanied to See also:Paris, and later, in 18o2, on his See also:great See also:concert tour through See also:France, See also:Germany and See also:Russia. Under the auspices of his See also:master Field appeared in public in most of the great See also:European capitals, especially in St See also:Petersburg, and in that See also:city he remained when Clementi returned to See also:England: During his stay with the great pianist Field had to suffer many privations owing to Clementi's all but unexampled See also:parsimony; but when the latter See also:left Russia his splendid connexion amongst the highest circles of the See also:capital became Field's See also:inheritance. His See also:marriage. with a See also:French See also:lady of the name of See also:Charpentier was anything but happy, and had soon to be dissolved. Field made frequent concert See also:tours to the See also:chief cities of Russia, and in 1820 settled permanently in See also:Moscow. do 1831 he came to England for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, and for the next four years led a migratory See also:life in France, Germany and See also:Italy, exciting the admiration of amateurs wherever he appeared in public. In See also:Naples he See also:fell seriously See also:ill, and See also:lay several months in the See also:hospital, till a See also:Russian family discovered him and brought him back to Moscow. There he lingered for several years till his See also:death on the 11th of See also:January 1837. Field's training and the See also:cast of his See also:genius were not of a See also:kind to enable him to excel in the larger forms of instrumental See also:music, and his seven concerti
His two plays were reprinted in J. P. See also:Collier's Five Old Plays (1833), in See also:Hazlitt's edition of See also:Dodsley's Old Plays, and in See also:Nero and other Plays (Mermaid See also:series, 1888), with an introduction by Mr A. W. Verity.
End of Article: FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
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