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See also:WESLEY, See also:SAMUEL (1766-1837) , See also:English musical composer, son of See also:Charles Wesley (see above), was See also:born at See also:Bristol on the 24th of See also:February 1766, and See also:developed so precocious a See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent for See also:music that at three years old he played the See also:organ and at eight composed an See also:oratorio entitled See also:Ruth—a fact which is duly chronicled on a curious portrait, painted in 1774, and afterwards engraved, wherein he is represented in the childish See also:costume of the See also:period. Though suffering for many years from an accidental injury to the See also:brain, Wesley was See also:long regarded as the most brilliant organist and the most accomplished extempore See also:fugue-player in See also:England. He may indeed be regarded as the See also:father of See also:modern organ-playing, for he it was who, aided by his See also:friends See also:Benjamin See also:Jacob and C. F. See also:Horn, first introduced the See also:works of See also:Sebastian See also:Bach to English organists, not only by his superb playing, but by editing with Horn, in 18ro, the first copy of Das wohltemperirte Clavier ever printed in England. Wesley's last performance took See also:place on the 12th of See also:September 1837 at See also:Christ 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, Newgate See also:Street, See also:London, where, after See also:hearing the wonderful performances of Mendelssohn, he was himself induced to See also:play an extempore fugue. He died on the 11th of See also:October 1837, leaving a vast number of MS. and printed compositions.
His See also:brother Charles (1757–1815) was also an accomplished organist, and still more famous was his son, Samuel Sebastian (q.v.).
End of Article: WESLEY, SAMUEL (1766-1837)
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