John Stanley (composer)
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Charles John Stanley (January 17, 1712 – May 19, 1786) was an English composer and organist.
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[edit] Biography
Stanley, who was blind from an early age, studied music with Maurice Greene and held a number of organist appointments in London, such as St Andrew's, Holborn from 1726. He was a friend of George Frideric Handel, and following Handel's death, Stanley joined first with John Christopher Smith and later with Thomas Linley to continue the series of oratorio concerts Handel had established, and succeeded him as a governor of the Foundling Hospital (continuing his tradition of performing "Messiah" for them).
In 1779, Stanley succeeded William Boyce as Master of the King's Musick.
Stanley's works include the opera Teraminta, the dramatic cantata The Choice of Hercules, twelve other cantatas with texts by John Hawkins, the oratorios Jephtha, The Fall of Egypt and Zimri, and instrumental music, notably three volumes of Voluntaries for organ (1748, 1752, and 1754). Nearly all of the voluntaries feature a short, slow introduction followed by either a solo-stop movement (such as the so called trumpet voluntaries) or a fugue. Some of the former have been arranged in modern times for string chamber orchestra and trumpet.
[edit] Works
- Opus 1 Eight Solos for Flute and Continuo (1740)
- Opus 2 Six Concertos for strings (or organ & strings or flute & continuo) (1742/1745)
- Opus 3 Six Cantatas (1742)
- Opus 4 Six Solos for Flute and Continuo (1745)
- Opus 5 Ten Voluntaries for Organ (1748)
- Opus 6 Ten Voluntaries for Organ (1752)
- Opus 7 Ten Voluntaries for Organ (1754)
- Opus 8 Six Cantatas (1751)
- Opus 9 Three Cantatas (1751)
- Opus 10 Six Concertos for Organ or Harpsichord (1775)
| Preceded by William Boyce |
Master of the King's Music 1779–1786 |
Succeeded by William Parsons |
[edit] Media
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Voluntary in D minor I. for organ John Stanley: Voluntary in D minor op. 5 No. 8 - Allegro 1st mvt. Played by Tibor Pinter on the sample set of the Hart organ (1809) in Little Waldingfield, England. Voluntary in D minor II. for organ John Stanley: Voluntary in D minor op. 5 No. 8 - Adagio 2nd mvt. Played by Tibor Pinter on the sample set of the Hart organ (1809) in Little Waldingfield, England. Voluntary in D minor III. for organ John Stanley: Voluntary in D minor op. 5 No. 8 - Allegro 3rd mvt. Played by Tibor Pinter on the sample set of the Hart organ (1809) in Little Waldingfield, England. - Problems playing the files? See media help.
[edit] External links
- Free scores by John Stanley in the Werner Icking Music Archive (WIMA)
- Bio at the "18th Century English Music" pages at rslade.co.uk.
- Bio at "Here of a Sunday Morning" website.
- Bio and music samples at the BaroqueMusic.org site.
- John Stanley at the Open Directory Project
- John Stanley was listed in the International Music Score Library Project
