SAMUEL

See also:

• ARNOLD
• ARNOLD, BENEDICT (1741-1801)
• ARNOLD, GOTTFRIED (1666-1714)
• ARNOLD, MATTHEW (1822-1888)
• SAMUEL ARNOLD (1740--18o2)
• ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN (1832-1904)
• ARNOLD, THOMAS (1745-1842)

ARNOLD (1740--18o2)  , English composer, was born at London on the loth of August 1740 . He received a thorough musical education at the Chapel Royal, and when little more than twenty years of age was appointed composer at Covent Garden theatre . Here, in 1765, he produced his popular opera, The Maid of the Mill, many of the songs in which were selected from the works of Italian composers . In 1776 he transferred his services to the Haymarket theatre . In 1783 he was made composer to George III . Between 1765 and 1802 he wrote as many as forty-three operas, after-pieces and pantomimes, of which the best were The Maid of the Mill, Rosamond, Inkle and Yarico, The Battle of Hexham, The Mountaineers . His oratorios included The Cure of Saul (1767), Ahimelech (1768), The Resurrection (1773), The Prodigal Son (1777) and Elisha (1795) . In 1783 he became organist to the Chapel Royal . In 1786 he began an edition of Handel's works, which extended to 40 volumes, but was never completed . In 1793 he became organist of Westminster Abbey, where he was buried after his death on the 22nd of October 1802 . Arnold is chiefly remembered now for the publication of his Cathedral Music, being a collection in score of the most valuable and useful compositions for that service by the several English masters of the last 200 years (r 790) .