John Stanley (composer)
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Charles John Stanley was an English composer and organist.
John Stanley
William Boyce (composer)
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William Boyce was an English composer and organist. Like Beethoven later on, he became deaf but continued to compose. He knew Handel, Arne, Gluck, J. C. Bach, Abel, and a very young Mozart, all of who
John Stanley (composer)
…Hospital in 1770, and from 1775 until 1777 he directed the annual performance of Handel's Messiah in aid of the hospital funds. In 1779 Stanley succeeded William Boyce as Master of the King's Band of musicians. In this capacity he composed many New Year and birthday odes to the king but this music has not survived…
William Boyce by John Russell, 1776
William Boyce by Thomas Hudson, ca. 1745