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SAMUEL ARNOLD (1740--18o2)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 638 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAMUEL See also:ARNOLD (1740--18o2)  , See also:English composer, was See also:born at See also:London on the loth of See also:August 1740 . He received a thorough musical See also:education at the See also:Chapel Royal, and when little more than twenty years of See also:age was appointed composer at Covent See also:Garden See also:theatre . Here, in 1765, he produced his popular See also:opera, The Maid of the See also:Mill, many of the songs in which were selected from the See also:works of See also:Italian composers . In 1776 he transferred his services to the Haymarket theatre . In 1783 he was made composer to See also:George III . Between 1765 and 1802 he wrote as many as See also:forty-three operas, after-pieces and pantomimes, of which the best were The Maid of the Mill, See also:Rosamond, Inkle and Yarico, The See also:Battle of See also:Hexham, The Mountaineers . His oratorios included The Cure of See also:Saul (1767), Ahimelech (1768), The Resurrection (1773), The Prodigal Son (1777) and See also:Elisha (1795) . In 1783 he became organist to the Chapel Royal . In 1786 he began an edition of See also:Handel's works, which extended to 40 volumes, but was never completed . In 1793 he became organist of See also:Westminster See also:Abbey, where he was buried after his See also:death on the 22nd of See also:October 1802 . See also:Arnold is chiefly remembered now for the publication of his See also:Cathedral See also:Music, being a collection in See also:score of the most valuable and useful compositions for that service by the several English masters of the last 200 years (r 790) .

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