ARNE, Thomas Augustine
3/12/1710 - 3/5/1778

British composer: Michael Festing  was a major influence on Arne music.  1732 Arne's first composition of importance was Addison's Rosamond;1745 own setting of God Save the King & Colin & Phoebe;1762 saw Arne's greatest ever success performance of his opera Artaxerxes at Covent Garden.  He was a Roman Catholic.

BAX, Sir Arnold Edward Trevor
11/8/1883 - 10/3/1953

British composer: modern classical music characterzed by his brilliant harmonies.

His harmonies include...

1921 The Garden of Fand.

1931 The Tale the Pine Trees Kew.

BOYCE, William
9/11/1711 - 2/7/1779

British composer: one of the few  to write symphonies; organist of the Chapel Royal; wrote songs and music for the theater & vocal music.  His 3-volume Cathedral Music (1760-78) was used in cathedrals in England for more than a century.

His anthems include...

“O, Where Shall Wisdom Be Found”

“By the Waters of Babylon.”

BRITTEN, Lord Benjamin
11/22/1913 - 12/4/1976
Baron Britten of Aldeburgh

British composer: his first opera, Peter Grimes (1945); 1947 founded the Aldeburgh Festival & Gloriana (1953) written to celebrate the coronation of Elizabeth II.
In 1976 Elizabeth II granted him a life peerage.

CROFT, William
1678 - 1727

British composer: 1707 became composer and Master of the Children at the Chapel Royal; 1708 organist of Westminster Abbey; 1713 With noise of Cannon &
1724 O Lord, rebuke me not. 

DAVIES, Sir Peter Maxwell
8/8/1934 -

One of England's best composer, need I say more.  One of his works 'Ojai Festival Overture'.  Very active composer & known as Max.
Check web site for details.

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ELGAR, Sir Edward William
6/2/1857 - 2/23/1934

British composer: compositions are Variations on an Original Theme
(or Enigma Variations, 1899) &
Violin Concerto in B Minor.
He is best known for the Pomp and Circumstance marches ( 1901-30),
including Land of Hope and Glory.
       THE ELGAR WEEKEND, 1995
   Edward Elgar - The Elgar Society

FESTING, Michael
1752

1731 Festing's Twelve Sonatas in Three Parts published for Dutchess of Marlborough; 1735 was made Master of the King's Music & 1737 was appointed director of the Italian Opera orchestra in London.

GIBBONS, Orlando
12/25/1583 - 6/5/1625

British composer & organist:  His compositions include English Anthems, services, chamber music and madrigals.

GIBBS, Joseph
1699 - 1788

British composer: 1746 his Eight Solos for Violin and Continuo; 1748 organist at the church of St. Mary le Tower in Ipswich, Suffolk, post held for the rest of his long life; prominent organist and recitalist, playing on many occasions of new church with organs; & 1763 comic opera Love in a Village at the Ipswich Playhouse.

GREENE, Maurice
8/12/1696 - 12/1/1755

British composer and organist: 6th July 1730 the opening of the new Senate House at Cambridge his work "Ode on St. Cecillia's Day"; 1735 elected to the highest musical position - Master of the King's Musick & 1743 made 40 Select Anthems.

HEBDEN, John
1712 - 1765

British composer: professional bassoonist, gamba player and 'cellist; know for six concertos for strings & his 6 solos for Flute and Harpsichord.

HOLST, Gustav Theodore
9/21/1874 - 5/25/1934

British composer: compositions based on English folk song; The Planets (1916) & Boar's Head (1924).

PARRY, Sir Charles Hubert Hastings
2/27/1848 - 10/7/1918

Parry's early musical career at Eton and Oxford.  Best known for the choral song Jerusalem.  This English Romantic was instrumental in bringing, English musical renaissance at the end of the nineteenth century.  This in turn brought "notably" English quality to western music.

STANLEY, John
1/17/1712 - 5/19/1786

British composer: 1742 Six Concertos in Seven Parts were first published; 1774 Oratorio's The Fall of Egypt; 1775 Six Concertos for Organ; 1779 he succeeded Boyce as Master of the King's Band of musicians.

SULLIVAN, Sir Arthur Seymour
5/13/1842 - 11/22/1900

British composer and conductor: known for comic operas; Trial by Jury (1875), H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The Mikado (1885). 

He also wrote serious music as the oratorio Kenilworth (1864) & the opera Ivanhoe (1886).

TALLIS, Thomas
1505 - 11/23/1585

British composer: known for hymn, tunes, services & anthems.
He has also wrote motets,
madrigals & instrumental music.  Also was obtained - monopoly right from Queen Elizabeth I for the publication of vocal music.

TIPPETT, Sir Michael Kemp
1/2/1905 - 1998

British composer: He has utilized British Fork and American Jazz in his music; (1946) Oratorio A Child of Our Time; (1970) Opera The Knot Garden; & (1945), (1958), (1973) & (1977) Four Symphonies.

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WALTON, Sir William Turner
3/29/1902 - 3/8/1983

British composer: Facade(1923), Portsmouth Point(1925); many operas, concertos, chamber works & films like Hamlet(1947).  Composed ceremonial marches for the coronations of 1937 & 1953, and he was knighted in 1951.