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FIELD, JOHN (17821837)

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 322 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FAT-FLA
FIELD, JOHN (17821837) , English musical composer and pianist, was born at Dublin in 1782. He came of a musical family, his father being a violinist, and his grandfather the organist in one of the churches of Dublin. From the latter the boy received his first musical education. When a few years later the family settled in London, Field became the favourite pupil of the celebrated
Clementi
 , whom he accompanied to Paris, and later, in 18o2, on his
great
  concert tour through France, Germany and Russia. Under the auspices of his master Field appeared in public in most of the
great
  European capitals, especially in St
Petersburg
 , and in that city he remained when
Clementi
  returned to England: During his stay with the great pianist Field had to suffer many privations owing to Clementi's all but unexampled parsimony; but when the latter left Russia his splendid connexion amongst the highest circles of the
capital
  became Field's
inheritance
 . His
marriage
 . with a French lady of the name of Charpentier was anything but happy, and had soon to be dissolved. Field made frequent concert tours to the
chief
  cities of Russia, and in 1820 settled permanently in Moscow. do 1831 he came to England for a short time, and for the next four years led a migratory life in France, Germany and Italy, exciting the admiration of amateurs wherever he appeared in public. In Naples he fell seriously ill, and lay several months in the
hospital
 
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, till a Russian family discovered him and brought him back to Moscow. There he lingered for several years till his death on the 11th of January 1837. Field's training and the cast of his genius were not of a kind to enable him to excel in the larger forms of instrumental music, and his seven concerti
His two plays were reprinted in J. P. Collier's Five Old Plays (1833), in Hazlitt's edition of Dodsley's Old Plays, and in Nero and other Plays (Mermaid
series
 , 1888), with an introduction by Mr A. W. Verity.


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