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See also:GOSS, See also:SIR See also:JOHN (1800–1880) , See also:English composer, was See also:born at See also:Fareham, See also:Hampshire, on the 27th of See also:December 1800. He was elected a chorister of the See also:Chapel Royal in 1811, and in 1816, on the breaking of his See also:voice, became a 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 See also:Attwood. A few See also:early compositions, some for the See also:theatre, exist, and some glees were published before 1825. He was appointed organist of St See also:Luke's, See also:Chelsea, in 1824, and in 1838 became organist of St See also:Paul's in See also:succession to Attwood; he kept the See also:post until 1872, when he resigned and was knighted. His position in the See also:London musical See also:world of the 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 was an influential one, and he did much by his teaching and See also:criticism to encourage the study and appreciation of See also:good See also:music. In 1876 he was given the degree of See also:Mus.D. at See also:Cambridge. Though his few orchestral See also:works have very small importance, his See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church music includes some See also:fine compositions, such as the anthems " 0 See also:taste and see," " O Saviour of the world " and others. He was the last of the See also:great English school of church composers who devoted themselves almost exclusively to church music; and in the See also:history of the See also:glee his is an honoured name, if only on See also:account of his finest See also:work in that See also:form, the five-See also:part glee, See also:Ossian's "Hymn to the See also:sun." He died at See also:Brixton, London, on the loth of May 1880.
End of Article: GOSS, SIR JOHN (1800–1880)
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