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 tunes (1820, '28) and elementary handbooks (1825, '47). He edited Callcott's glees, with a biography (1824), miscellaneous glees (1832) and one volume of Byrd's Cantiones (1842). He was one of Mendelssohn's friends.

Henry Rowley Bishop (d. 1855) early displayed lyric and dramatic ability. From 1804 he wrote fluent stage-pieces, from 1810 was conductor at various theatres, from 1841 was professor at Edinburgh and from 1848 at Oxford, receiving knighthood in 1842. Besides many fine songs and glees, he wrote an enormous number (about 80) of operettas and adaptations of European operas (1804-41), such as The Circassian Bride (1809), Guy Mannering (1816), Maid Marian (1822), Cortez (1823), etc., and edited collections of national songs, etc.

William Hawes (d. 1846), for nearly 30 years connected with the Chapel Royal, was from 1824 a successful opera-director, bringing out adapted works and several of his own (1829-35). He was also a good composer and editor of glees and madrigals, besides being interested in music-publishing.



Among many other secular composers were Jonathan Blewitt (d. 1853), from 1811 prominent at Dublin, returning to London in 1826, with about 10 stage-pieces and many popular Irish ballads; John Davy (d. 1824), from before 1800 a violinist and teacher in London, with many favorite songs and about 15 plays (from 1800); Thomas Simpson Cooke (d. 1848), born at Dublin and early active in theatre music, from 1813 a tenor in London, a good singing-teacher and from 1828 manager and conductor, with about 15 operettas (1814-35), partly adapted, and numerous glees and songs; Thomas Forbes Walmisley (d. 1866), pupil of Attwood, from 1810 organist in London, a good glee-writer (from 1814); Charles Edward Horn (d. 1849), a stage-singer and composer, with about 25 operettas (1810-30), who also lived in the United States in 1833-43 and from 1847 (finally as conductor of the Handel and Haydn Society)—the writer of many songs and glees, and 2 oratorios; John Parry (d. 1851), a Welsh player upon the clarinet and flageolet, from 1807 teaching in London, long the conductor of Welsh festivals, where he was called 'Bardd Alaw' (Master of Song), in later life a musical critic and writer upon Welsh music, with incidental music to several plays (1814-29); William Beale (d. 1854), a choirboy under Arnold and R. Cooke, from 1816 in the Chapel Royal, from 1820 organist at Cambridge and from 1821 in London, with successful madrigals and glees (from 1813); and the Earl of Westmoreland [till 1844 Lord Burghersh] (d. 1859), active as a soldier and diplomat, but also a diligent musician, with 7 Italian operas at Florence and London (1821-45), 3 symphonies, chamber and piano-pieces, songs, glees and some church music—besides being the promoter of the Royal Academy in 1822.