James Hook: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
m (Text replace - 'http---www.cpdl.org-wiki-images' to '{{SERVER}}/wiki/images') |
(WikipediaLink) |
||
Line 4: | Line 4: | ||
'''Died:''' 1827 | '''Died:''' 1827 | ||
'''Biography''' | '''Biography'''<br> | ||
<br>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'. | 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)'' | ||
{{WikipediaLink|James Hook (composer)}} | |||
==List of choral works== | ==List of choral works== |
Revision as of 14:57, 19 February 2009
Life
Born: 1746
Died: 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)
View the Wikipedia article on James Hook.
List of choral works
ICON | SOURCE |
---|---|
File details | |
Help |
Click here to search for this composer on CPDL
Publications
External links
add links here