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See also: English musical composer, was See also: born in See also: London
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He was the son of a clergyman in the city, and soon became a chorister of St See also: Paul's See also: cathedral, where he studied under See also: Charles
See also: King, and subsequently under
See also: Richard Brind, organist of the cathedral from 1707 to 1718, whom, on his See also: death in the last-named See also: year, he succeeded
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Nine years later he became organist and composer to the See also: chapel royal, on the death of Dr Croft
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In 1730 he was elected to the chair of See also: music in the university of Cambridge, and had the degree of See also: doctor of music conferred on him
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Dr See also: Greene was a voluminous composer of See also: church music, and his collection of
See also: Forty Select Anthems became a See also: standard See also: work of its kind
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He wrote a " Te Deum," several oratorios, a masque, The See also: Judgment of Hercules, and a pastoral See also: opera, See also: Phoebe (1748); also glees and catches: and a collection of Catches and Canons for Three and Four Voices is amongst his compositions
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In addition he composed many occasional pieces for the king's birthday, having been appointed master of the king's See also: band in 1735
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But it is as a composer of church music that Greene is chiefly remembered
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It is here that his contrapuntal skill and his See also: sound musical scholarship are chiefly shown
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With See also: Handel, Greene was originally on intimate terms, but his equal friendship for Buononcini, Handel's See also: rival, estranged the See also: German master's feelings from him, and all See also: personal intercourse between them ceased
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Greene, in conjunction with the violinist Michael Christian Festing (1727-1752) and others, originated the Society of Musicians, for the support of poor artists and their families
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He died on the 1st of See also: December 1755
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