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GREENE, MAURICE (1695-1755)

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 538 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GREENE, MAURICE (1695-1755)
English
  musical composer, was born in London. He was the son of a clergyman in the city, and soon became a chorister of St Paul's
cathedral
 , where he studied under Charles King, and subsequently under Richard Brind, organist of the
cathedral
  from 1707 to 1718, whom, on his death in the last-named year, he succeeded. Nine years later he became organist and composer to the chapel royal, on the death of Dr Croft. In 1730 he was elected to the chair of music in the university of
Cambridge
 , and had the degree of
doctor
  of music conferred on him. Dr
Greene
  was a voluminous composer of
church
  music, and his collection of
Forty
  Select Anthems became a standard
work
  of its kind. He wrote a " Te Deum," several oratorios, a masque, The Judgment of Hercules, and a
pastoral
  opera, Phoebe (1748); also glees and catches: and a collection of Catches and Canons for Three and Four Voices is amongst his compositions. In addition he composed many occasional pieces for the king's birthday, having been appointed master of the king's band in 1735. But it is as a composer of
church
  music that
Greene
  is chiefly remembered. It is here that his contrapuntal skill and his sound musical scholarship are chiefly shown. With
Handel
 , Greene was originally on intimate terms, but his equal friendship for Buononcini,
Handel
 's rival, estranged the German master's feelings from him, and all personal intercourse between them ceased. Greene, in conjunction with the violinist Michael Christian Festing (1727-1752) and others, originated the Society of Musicians, for the support of poor artists and their families. He died on the 1st of December 1755.


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