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This article is all about a English composer. For an article all about a Polish writer & teacher, watch Samuel Arnold (1675-1711) Samuel Arnold (1740 - October 22, 1802) was an English composer. Arnold was innate within London (his mother is thought to have been Princess Amelia), and began writing music for the theatre in about 1764. Two or three years late, around partnership using Thomas Pinto, he became proprietor of the Marylebone pleasure gardens, for which much of his popular music was written. A business failed, & inside 1777 he went to work for George Colman the Elder at the Little Theatre, Haymarket. Inside 1783 he became organist at the Chapel Royal, and inside 1793 he became organist at Westminster Abbey, where he was at length buried.
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Samuel Arnold Biography relating to his hymn writing from CyberHymnal. Arnold, Samuel Biography noting his musical abilities, his work in a variety of genres, and his editing from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio. Samuel Arnold (1740-1802) Portrait and biography listing his influences, accomplishments, setbacks, and positions and offices. From Naxos. Samuel Arnold Biography by Robert Hoskins noting his accomplishments and setbacks. From Artaria. |
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