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
William Boyce by John Russell, 1776
William Boyce by Thomas Hudson, ca. 1745
Maurice Greene (composer)
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Maurice Greene was an English composer and organist. He was an admirer and friend of George Frideric Handel.
William Boyce (composer)
…on 11 September 1711 and was admitted by his father as a choirboy at St Paul's Cathedral in 1719. After his voice broke in 1727, he studied music with Maurice Greene. His first professional appointment came in 1734 when he was employed as an organist at the Oxford Chapel in central London. He went on to take a number…
Greene in a 1747 painting by Francis Hayman