The Letters of Samuel Wesley

The Letters of Samuel Wesley
Author: Samuel Wesley
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780198164234

Samuel Wesley (1766-1837) was the son of the hymn-writer Charles Wesley and the nephew of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. He was one of the leading composers in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England, and the finest organist of his day. He was also a misfit and a rebel, renowned for his outspoken views, his frequently wild behavior, and his irregular personal life. His music has become increasingly well known in recent years, and these letters to his friends and fellow musicians, over 400 of which are gathered together here for the first time, present both a witty, perceptive, and unparalleled portrait of Wesley the man, and an insiders view of life in the music profession in London in the early nineteenth-century.

Samuel Wesley (1766–1837): A Source Book

Samuel Wesley (1766–1837): A Source Book
Author: Michael Kassler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 776
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1351550128

Hailed as a child prodigy and later acclaimed as England's finest extempore organist, Samuel Wesley - son of Charles Wesley and nephew of John Wesley, the founders of Methodism - is best known today for his musical compositions and for his promotion of the music of J. S. Bach. At the heart of this source book is a calendar of Samuel Wesley's correspondence. The editors date and summarise the content of over 1100 surviving letters and other documents, most of which have not previously been published. The book accordingly reveals considerable new information about Wesley and his complex personal affairs, including his incarceration for debt and his confinement in a lunatic asylum for a year. Many details are provided about London musical life in the era from Boyce to Mendelssohn that prior scholars have not taken into account. The book also presents a chronology of Wesley's life, a descriptive list of his nearly 550 musical and literary works, a discography, an iconography and a bibliography. It therefore is the most comprehensive available reference source for Wesley's life, times and music.

Samuel Wesley (1766?837): A Source Book

Samuel Wesley (1766?837): A Source Book
Author: Michael Kassler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 664
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 135155011X

Hailed as a child prodigy and later acclaimed as England's finest extempore organist, Samuel Wesley - son of Charles Wesley and nephew of John Wesley, the founders of Methodism - is best known today for his musical compositions and for his promotion of the music of J. S. Bach. At the heart of this source book is a calendar of Samuel Wesley's correspondence. The editors date and summarise the content of over 1100 surviving letters and other documents, most of which have not previously been published. The book accordingly reveals considerable new information about Wesley and his complex personal affairs, including his incarceration for debt and his confinement in a lunatic asylum for a year. Many details are provided about London musical life in the era from Boyce to Mendelssohn that prior scholars have not taken into account. The book also presents a chronology of Wesley's life, a descriptive list of his nearly 550 musical and literary works, a discography, an iconography and a bibliography. It therefore is the most comprehensive available reference source for Wesley's life, times and music.

Samuel Wesley

Samuel Wesley
Author: Philip Olleson
Publisher: Boydell Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781843830313

This book draws on letters, family papers, and other contemporary documents to offer a full study of Wesley, his music, and his life and times."--Jacket.

The Making of the Victorian Organ

The Making of the Victorian Organ
Author: Nicholas Thistlethwaite
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 616
Release: 1999-08-26
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521663649

This important 1990 book provides a comprehensive survey of English organ building during the most innovative fifty years in its history.

The English Bach Awakening

The English Bach Awakening
Author: Michael Kassler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 135154487X

The English Bach Awakening concerns the introduction into England of J.S. Bach's music and information about him. Hitherto this subject has been called 'the English Bach revival', but that is a misnomer. 'Revival' implies prior life, yet no reference to Bach or to his music is known to have been made in England during his lifetime (1685-1750). The book begins with a comprehensive chronology of the English Bach Awakening. Eight chapters follow, written by Dr Philip Olleson, Dr Yo Tomita and the editor, Michael Kassler, which treat particular parts of the Awakening and show how they developed. A focus of the book is the history of the manuscripts and the printed editions of Bach's '48' - The Well-tempered Clavier - in England at this time, and its culmination in the 'analysed' edition that Samuel Wesley and Charles Frederick Horn published in 1810-1813 and later revised. Wesley's multifaceted role in the Bach Awakening is detailed, as are the several efforts that were made to translate Forkel's biography of Bach into English. A chapter is devoted to A.F.C. Kollmann's endeavour to prove the regularity of Bach's Chromatic Fantasy, and the book concludes with a discussion of portraits of Bach in England before 1830.

The Bach Letters

The Bach Letters
Author: Samuel J. Wesley
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Total Pages: 88
Release: 1981
Genre: Composers
ISBN: