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WHITFIELD, JOHN CLARKE (177o-1836)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 608 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WHITFIELD, See also:JOHN See also:CLARKE (177o-1836) , See also:English organist and composer, was See also:born at See also:Gloucester on the 13th of See also:December 1770, and educated at See also:Oxford under Dr See also:Philip See also:Hayes. In 1789he was appointed organist of the See also:parish See also:church at See also:Ludlow. Four years later he took the degree of See also:Mus. Bac. at See also:Cambridge, and in 1795 he was chosen organist of See also:Armagh See also:cathedral, whence he removed in the same See also:year to See also:Dublin, with the appointments of organist and See also:master of the See also:children at St See also:Patrick's cathedral and See also:Christchurch. Driven from See also:Ireland by the See also:rebellion of 1798, he accepted the See also:post of organist at Trinity and St John's Colleges, Cambridge, and about the same See also:time assumed the surname of Whitfield, in addition to that of Clarke, by which he had been previously known. He took the degree of Mus. Doc. at Cambridge in 1799, and in 1810 proceeded to the same grade at Oxford. In 182o he was elected organist and master of the choristers at See also:Hereford cathedral; and on the See also:death of Dr Haig he was appointed See also:professor of See also:music at Cambridge. Three years after-wards he resigned these appointments in consequence of an attack of See also:paralysis. He died at Hereford, on the 22nd of See also:February 1836. Whitfield's compositions were very numerous. Among the best of them are four volumes of anthems, published in 1805.

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great number of songs, one of which--" See also:Bird of the See also:Wilderness," written to some well-known verses by See also:James See also:Hogg, the " See also:Ettrick Shepherd "—attained a high degree of popularity. But the great See also:work of his See also:life was the publication, in a popular and eminently useful See also:form, of the oratorios of See also:Handel, which he was the first to See also:present to the public with a See also:complete See also:pianoforte See also:accompaniment.

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