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ARNOLD, SAMUEL (1740--18o2)

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 638 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: APO-ARN
ARNOLD, SAMUEL (1740--18o2) , English composer, was born at London on the loth of August 1740. He received a thorough musical education at the Chapel Royal, and when little more than twenty years of age was appointed composer at Covent
Garden
  theatre. Here, in 1765, he produced his popular opera, The Maid of the Mill, many of the songs in which were selected from the works of Italian composers. In 1776 he transferred his services to the Haymarket theatre. In 1783 he was made composer to George III. Between 1765 and 1802 he wrote as many as
forty
 -three operas, after-pieces and pantomimes, of which the best were The Maid of the Mill, Rosamond, Inkle and Yarico, The Battle of Hexham, The Mountaineers. His oratorios included The Cure of
Saul
  (1767), Ahimelech (1768), The Resurrection (1773), The Prodigal Son (1777) and Elisha (1795). In 1783 he became organist to the Chapel Royal. In 1786 he began an edition of
Handel
 's works, which extended to 40 volumes, but was never completed. In 1793 he became organist of Westminster Abbey, where he was buried after his death on the 22nd of October 1802.
Arnold
  is chiefly remembered now for the publication of his
Cathedral
  Music, being a collection in score of the most valuable and useful compositions for that service by the several English masters of the last 200 years (r 790).


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