William Jackson of Exeter

Life

Born: 29 May 1730

Died: 5 July 1803

Biography Jackson usually referred to himself as "of Exeter", not as disambiguation, but because he was proud of his origins. This was analogous to the contemporaneous artist brothers William, George and John Smith invariably labelling themselves as "of Chichester". Jackson's assumed epithet became useful after his death to distinguish him from another composer of the same name, usually referred to as William Jackson "of Masham" (1815-1866).

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List of choral works

Sacred works

• Hear me, O God
• Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in C
• Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in E flat
• Te Deum Laudamus
• Vital spark of heavenly flame

Secular works

• Blest as th'immortal gods is he
• Come, push round with spirit
• Could he, whom my dissembled rigour grieves
• Go rose, my Chloe's bosom grace
• Go, feeble tyrant
• Ianthe
• If any so wise is
• In a vale closed with woodland
• In vain you tell your parting lover
• Night, to lovers' joys a friend
• Now Philomel renews her tender strain
• On a day
• Thou fairest proof of beauty's power
• Thou to whose eyes I bend
• To fairest Delia's grassy tomb
• Where the bee sucks
• While liquid odours round him breathe
• Whilst from our looks
• Ye woods and ye mountains unknown

 
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Publications

• Twelve songs, Op.1, c.1755
• Elegies, Op.3, c.1760
• Twelve Songs, Op.4, c.1765
• An Anthem...and An Ode, Op.5, 1766
• Twelve Hymns, Op.6, 1768
• Twelve Songs, Op.7, c.1770
• An ode to Fancy (Warton), Op.8, c.1770
• Twelve Canzonets, Op.9, c.1770
• Six Quartets, Op.11, c.1775
• A Second Set of Twelve Canzonets, Op.13, c.1782
• Twelve Pastorals, Op.15, 1786
• Twelve Songs, Op.16, c.1790
• Six Epigrams, Op.17, c.1795
• Six Madrigals, Op.18, c.1798