1st American ed., 8vo, green cloth boards, 314 pages, b/w illustrations, map endpapers, bibliography. Condition is NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: very slight rubbing to bottom edge; appears unread. Stevens (1757-1837), organist and composer, spanned the late Baroque and early Romanticism eras. He kept copious diaries throughout his life, forming the basis for his ?Recollections,? written in 1827.

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Title

Recollections of R.J.S. Stevens: An Organist in Gregorian London (Music in Georgian and Victorian Society)

Publisher

Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL

Publication Date

1992

Language

English

ISBN 10

0809317907

ISBN 13

9780809317905

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First American edition

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

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The career of R DJ S Stevens (1757–1827) lasted from the late baroque to early romanticism. Trained as a choirboy, he was apprenticed at the age of eleven to William Savage, who undertook to instruct him in the "Science of Musick." After leaving Savage, Stevens pursued, somewhat unsuccessfully at first, a career as an organist. In 1782 his luck changed when he was elected an organist to St. Michael’s, Cornhill. He spent the rest of his life earning his living as a composer, organist, and music teacher whose pupils included the illegitimate daughters of Lord Thurlow, the Lord Chancellor. Among Stevens’s works is The Anacreontic Song, which serves as the melody for The Star Spangled Banner.

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Mark Argent was educated at Robinson College, Cambridge, where he began his research into the musical life of eighteenth-century London. He has written on the performance of glees and keyboard concerti and published nine performing editions of glees.

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