See also: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
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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
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Here, in 1765, he produced his popular See also:opera, The Maid of the See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
Mill, many of the songs in which were selected from the See also:works of See also:Italian composers
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In 1776 he transferred his services to the Haymarket theatre
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In 1783 he was made composer to See also:George III
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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)
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In 1783 he became organist to the Chapel Royal
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In 1786 he began an edition of See also:Handel's works, which extended to 40 volumes, but was never completed
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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
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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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