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See also:SHIELD, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1748—1829) , See also:English musical composer, was See also:born at Swalwell, near See also:Newcastle, in 1748. His See also:father began to See also:teach him singing before he had completed his See also:sixth See also:year, but died three years later, leaving him in 'See also:charge of guardians, who made no See also:provision whatever for continuing his musical See also:education, for which he was thenceforward dependent entirely upon his own aptitude for learning, aided by a few lessons in thoroughbass which he received from See also:Charles Avison. Notwithstanding the difficulties inseparable from this imperfect training, he obtained See also:admission in 1772 to the See also:orchestra at the See also:Italian See also:Opera in See also:London, at first as a second See also:violin, and afterwards as See also:principal See also:viola, and this engagement he retained for eighteen years. In the meantime he turned his serious See also:attention to See also:composition, and in 1778 produced his first English comic opera, The Flitch of See also:- BACON
- BACON (through the O. Fr. bacon, Low Lat. baco, from a Teutonic word cognate with " back," e.g. O. H. Ger. pacho, M. H. Ger. backe, buttock, flitch of bacon)
- BACON, FRANCIS (BARON VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST ALBANS) (1561-1626)
- BACON, JOHN (1740–1799)
- BACON, LEONARD (1802–1881)
- BACON, ROGER (c. 1214-c. 1294)
- BACON, SIR NICHOLAS (1509-1579)
Bacon, at the Little See also:Theatre in the Haymarket, with so See also:great success that he was immediately engaged as composer to Covent See also:Garden Theatre, for which he continued to produce English operas and other dramatic pieces in See also:quick See also:succession until 1797,when he resigned his See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, and devoted himself to compositions of a different class, producing a great number of very beautiful glees, some instrumental chamber See also:music, and other See also:miscellaneous compositions. In 1817 he was made See also:master of the royal music. He died in London on the 25th of See also:January 1829, and was buried in the See also:south See also:cloister at See also:Westminster See also:Abbey.
Shield's most successful dramatic compositions were Rosina, The Mysteries of the See also:Castle, The See also:Lock and See also:Key and The. Castle of See also:Andalusia. As a composer of songs he was in no degree inferior to his great contemporary Charles See also:Dibdin. Indeed The See also:Arethusa, The Heaving of the See also:Lead and The See also:Post See also:Captain are as little likelyto be forgotten as Dibdin's Tom See also:Bowling or Saturday See also:Night at See also:Sea. His vein of See also:melody was inexhaustible, thoroughly English in See also:character and always conceived in the purest and most delicate See also:taste, and hence it is that many of his airs are still sung at concerts, though the operas for which they were written have See also:long been banished from the See also:stage. His Introduction to See also:Harmony (1794 and 1800) contains a great See also:deal of valuable See also:information; and he also published a useful See also:treatise, The Rudiments of Thoroughbass.
End of Article: SHIELD, WILLIAM (1748—1829)
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