James Hook

Life

Born: June 3, 1746

Died: c. 1827

Biography

James Hook was organist successively at Marylebone Gardens and at Vauxhall Gardens, for over half a century in all, performing concertos nightly and composing over two thousand songs, a number of which remain in use, such as the mock-Scotch 'Within a mile of Edinbro' Town' and the English 'Lass of Richmond Hill'. (Source: 'Oxford Companion to Music', 1938)

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List of choral works

• Bright Phoebus
• Come kiss me, dear Dolly
• The death of Crazy Jane
• Golden sun, thy warmth display
• The hawthorn buds begin to blow
• Hush, the god of love here sleeping lies
• In Yarrow Vale
• The lass of Richmond hill
• The monument of Queen Elizabeth
• One morning, Dame Turner's brisk maid
• Valentine's Day
• The Willow Song
• Ye gods, give that social delight

 
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