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'''Died:''' 1827 | '''Died:''' c. 1827 | ||
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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
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- Bright Phoebus ( Sibelius 5 )
- The Lass of Richmond Hill ( Sibelius 5 )
- The monument of Queen Elizabeth ( )
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