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See also:GREENE, See also:MAURICE (1695-1755) See also:English musical composer, was See also:born in See also:London. He was the son of a clergyman in the See also:city, and soon became a chorister of St See also:Paul's See also:cathedral, where he studied under See also:Charles See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King, and subsequently under See also:Richard Brind, organist of the cathedral from 1707 to 1718, whom, on his See also:death in the last-named See also:year, he succeeded. Nine years later he became organist and composer to the See also:chapel royal, on the death of Dr See also:Croft. In 1730 he was elected to the See also:chair of See also:music in the university of See also:Cambridge, and had the degree of See also:doctor of music conferred on him. Dr Greene was a voluminous composer of 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, and his collection of See also:Forty Select Anthems became a See also:standard See also:work of its See also:kind. He wrote a " Te Deum," several oratorios, a masque, The See also:Judgment of See also:Hercules, and a See also:pastoral See also:opera, See also:Phoebe (1748); also glees and catches: and a collection of Catches and Canons for Three and Four Voices is amongst his compositions. In addition he composed many occasional pieces for the king's birthday, having been appointed See also:master of the king's See also:band in 1735. But it is as a composer of church music that Greene is chiefly remembered. It is here that his contrapuntal skill and his See also:sound musical scholarship are chiefly shown. With See also:Handel, Greene was originally on intimate terms, but his equal friendship for Buononcini, Handel's See also:rival, estranged the See also:German master's feelings from him, and all See also:personal intercourse between them ceased. Greene, in See also:conjunction with the violinist See also:Michael See also:Christian Festing (1727-1752) and others, originated the Society of Musicians, for the support of poor artists and their families. He died on the 1st of See also:December 1755.
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