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WESLEY, SAMUEL SEBASTIAN (18101876)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 531 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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WESLEY, SAMUEL SEBASTIAN (18101876) , English composer and organist, natural son of Samuel Wesley, the eminent composer, was born in London on the 14th of August 181o. He
was one of the Children of the Chapel Royal from 181g, held various unimportant posts as organist from the age of fifteen, and in 1832 was appointed to
Hereford
  Cathedral. His career as a composer began with his splendid anthem, " The Wilderness," which was probably written for the opening of the
Hereford
  organ in that year. In 1834 it fell to him to conduct the Festival of the Three Choirs, and in the following year he resigned Hereford for
Exeter
  Cathedral; and during the next six years his name became gradually more and more widely known. In 1842 Dr Hook, afterwards dean of Chichester, offered him a large salary to become organist of Leeds parish church, and at Leeds much of his finest
work
  as a composer was done. In 1849 he quitted this post for Winchester, in order to secure educational advantages for his sons. He was at Winchester until 1865, when he offered himself as a candidate for Gloucester Cathedral, the last of his many posts. He again conducted the Three Choirs Festivals of 1865, 1868, 1871 and 1874. A civil
list
  pension of boo a year was conferred on him in 1873; he died at Gloucester on the 19th of April 1876, and was buried at
Exeter
 .
Like his father he was a very eccentric man, but his compositions show powers that are found in emery few Englishmen of his date. If the
list
  of his compositions is smaller than that of his father's, it must be remembered that. his anthems, in which is contained his best
work
 , are far more important and more extensive than most compositions so called : in many of them the whole anthem is no longer sung, but even the :elections from them make up anthems of
ordinary
  length. The) are masterly in
design
 , fine in
inspiration
  and expression, and notle in character. His " Blessed be the God and Father, " " The Wilderness, " already mentioned, " Ascribe unto the Lord, " " O Lord, Thou art my God, " and many others, are masterpieces in their way, and in all of these, as in the service in E, published with a rather trenchant
preface
  in 1845, there is a happy combination of the modern resources of harmony with the dignified cathedral style, a combination which naturally alarmed the orthodox party of his time.


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