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OUSELEY, See also:SIR See also:FREDERICK See also:ARTHUR See also:GORE (1825-1889) , See also:English composer, was the son of Sir Gore Ouseley, See also:ambassador to See also:Persia, and See also:nephew to Sir See also:William Ouseley, the See also:Oriental See also:scholar. He was See also:born on the 12th of See also:August 1825 in See also:London, and manifested an extraordinary precocity in See also:music, composing an See also:opera at the See also:age of eight years. In :844, having succeeded to the baronetcy, he entered at See also:Christ See also:Church, and graduated B.A. in 1846 and M.A. in 1849. He was ordained in the latter See also:year, and, as See also:curate of St See also:Paul's, Knightsbridge, served the See also:parish of St See also:Barnabas, Pimlico, until 1851. In 185o he took the degree of See also:Mus.B. at See also:Oxford, and four years afterwards that of Mus.D., his exercise being the See also:oratorio St See also:Polycarp. In 1855 he succeeded Sir See also:Henry See also:Bishop as See also:professor of music in the University of Oxford, was ordained See also:priest and appointed See also:precentor of See also:Hereford. In 1856 he became See also:vicar of St See also:Michael's, See also:Tenbury, and See also:warden Cinclus mexicanus. of St Michael's See also:College, which under him became an important educational institution both in music and See also:general subjects. His See also:works include a second oratorio, Hagar (Hereford, 1873), a See also:great number of services and anthems, chamber music, songs, &c., and theoretical works of great importance, such as See also:Harmony (1868) and See also:Counterpoint (1869) and Musical See also:Form (1875). One of his most useful works is a See also:series of chapters on English music added to the See also:translation of Emil See also:Naumann's See also:History of Music, the subject having been practically ignored in the See also:German See also:treatise. A profoundly learned musician, and a See also:man of great general culture, Ouseley's See also:influence on younger men was wholly for See also:good, and he helped forward the cause of musical progress in See also:England perhaps more effectually than if he himself had been among the more enthusiastic supporters of " advanced " music. The See also:work by which he is best known, St Polycarp, shows, like most compositions of its date, the strong influence of Mendelssohn, at least in its See also:plan and See also:scope; but if Ouseley had little individuality of expression, his See also:models in other works were the English church writers of the noblest school.

He died at Here-See also:

ford on the 6th of See also:April 1889.

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