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See also: English musician, was See also: born in See also: Green's Lane, Norwich, on the 5th of See also: July 1775
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His See also: father was a master See also: carpenter
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The See also: child was extraordinarily precocious, and when scarcely more than two years of age he played upon an See also: organ of his See also: parent's construction something like the tune of " See also: God save the See also: King." At the-age of four he came to
See also: London and gave daily recitals on the organ in the rooms of a See also: milliner in Piccadilly
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The precocity of his musical intuition was almost equalled by a singularly early aptitude for See also: drawing
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In 1786 he went to Cambridge as assistant to Dr See also: Randall the organist
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His See also: oratorio The Captivity of See also: Judah was played at Trinity See also: Hall, Cambridge, on the 4th of
See also: June 1789
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He was then only fourteen years of age
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His intention of entering the See also: church carried him to
See also: Oxford in 1788, but the See also: superior attractions of a musical career acquired an increasing influence over him, and in 1790 he was appointed organist of Christ Church
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At the early age of twenty-two he was appointed professor of See also: music in the university of Oxford, and there in 1799 he took his degree of See also: doctor in that See also: art
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In 1800 and the four following years he read lectures on music at Oxford
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Next he was appointed lecturer on music to the Royal Institution, and subsequently, in 1822, See also: principal of the London Royal See also: Academy of Music
.
His last years were passed at Taunton in the See also: house of his son, the Rev
.
W . R . See also: Crotch, where he died suddenly on the 29th of See also: December 1847
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He published a number of vocal and instrumental compositions, of which the best is his oratorio See also: Palestine, produced in 1812
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In 1831 appeared an 8vo See also: volume containing the substance of his lectures on music, delivered at Oxford and in London
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Previously, he had published three volumes of Specimens of Various Styles of Music
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Among his didactic See also: works is Elements of Musical Composition and Thorough-See also: Bass (London, 1812)
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The oratorio bearing the title The Captivity of Judah, and produced on the occasion of the See also: installation of the duke of Wellington as chancellor of the university of Oxford in 1834, is a totally different See also: work from that which he wrote upon the same subject as a boy of fourteen
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He arranged for the pianoforte a number of See also: Handel's oratorios and operas, besides symphonies and quartetts of See also: Haydn, Mozart and See also: Beethoven
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The See also: great expectations excited by his infant precocity were not fulfilled; for he manifested no extraordinary See also: genius for musical composition
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But he was an industrious student and a See also: sound artist, and his name remains See also: familiar in English musical See also: history
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