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WESLEY, SAMUEL SEBASTIAN (1810–1876)

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WESLEY, See also:SAMUEL See also:SEBASTIAN (1810–1876) , See also:English composer and organist, natural son of Samuel Wesley, the eminent composer, was See also:born in See also:London on the 14th of See also:August 181o. He was one of the See also:Children of the See also:Chapel Royal from 181g, held various unimportant posts as organist from the See also:age of fifteen, and in 1832 was appointed to See also:Hereford See also:Cathedral. His career as a composer began with his splendid See also:anthem, " The See also:Wilderness," which was probably written for the opening of the Hereford See also:organ in that See also:year. In 1834 it See also:fell to him to conduct the Festival of the Three Choirs, and in the following year he resigned Hereford for See also:Exeter Cathedral; and during the next six years his name became gradually more and more widely known. In 1842 Dr See also:Hook, afterwards See also:dean of See also:Chichester, offered him a large See also:salary to become organist of See also:Leeds See also:parish See also:church, and at Leeds much of his finest See also:work as a composer was done. In 1849 he quitted this See also:post for See also:Winchester, in See also:order to secure educational advantages for his sons. He was at Winchester until 1865, when he offered himself as a See also:candidate for See also:Gloucester Cathedral, the last of his many posts. He again conducted the Three Choirs Festivals of 1865, 1868, 1871 and 1874. A See also:civil See also:list See also:pension of boo a year was conferred on him in 1873; he died at Gloucester on the 19th of See also:April 1876, and was buried at Exeter. Like his See also:father he was a very See also:eccentric See also:man, but his compositions show See also:powers that are found in See also:emery few Englishmen of his date. If the list of his compositions is smaller than that of his father's, it must be remembered that. his anthems, in which is contained his best work, are far more important and more extensive than most compositions so called : in many of them the whole anthem is no longer sung, but even the :elections from them make up anthems of See also:ordinary length. The) are masterly in See also:design, See also:fine in See also:inspiration and expression, and notle in See also:character.

His " Blessed be the See also:

God and Father, " " The Wilderness, " already mentioned, " Ascribe unto the See also:Lord, " " O Lord, See also:Thou See also:art my God, " and many others, are masterpieces in their way, and in all of these, as in the service in E, published with a rather trenchant See also:preface in 1845, there is a happy See also:combination of the See also:modern resources of See also:harmony with the dignified cathedral See also:style, a combination which naturally alarmed the orthodox party of his See also:time.

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