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JOHN PYKE HULLAH (1812-1884)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 871 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN PYKE See also:HULLAH (1812-1884)  , See also:English composer and teacher of See also:music, was See also:born at See also:Worcester on the 27th See also:June 1812 . He was a See also:pupil of See also:William See also:Horsley from 1829; and entered the Royal See also:Academy of Music in 1833 . He wrote an See also:opera to words by See also:Dickens, The See also:Village Coquettes, produced in 1836; The Barbers of Bassora in 1837, and The Outpost in 1838, the last two at Covent See also:Garden . From 1839, when he went to See also:Paris to investigate various systems of teaching music to large masses of See also:people, he identified himself with Wilhem's See also:system of the "fixed Do," and his See also:adaptation of that system was taught with enormous success from 184o to 186o . In 1847 a large See also:building in See also:Long See also:Acre, called St See also:Martin's See also:Hall, was built by subscription and presented to See also:Hullah . It was inaugurated in 185o and burnt to the ground in 186o, a See also:blow from which Hullah was long in recovering . He had risked his all in the See also:maintenance of the building, and had to begin the See also:world again . A See also:series of lectures was given at the Royal Institution in 1861, and in 1864 he lectured in See also:Edinburgh, but in the following See also:year was unsuccessful in his application for the See also:Reid professorship . He conducted concerts in Edinburgh in 1866 and 1867, and the concerts of the Royal Academy of Music from 187o to 1873; he had been elected to the See also:committee of management in 1869 . In 1872 he was appointed by the See also:Council of See also:Education musical inspector of training See also:schools for the See also:United See also:Kingdom . In 1878 he went abroad to See also:report on the See also:condition of musical education in schools, and wrote a very valuable report, quoted in the memoir of him published by his wife in 1886 . He was attacked by See also:paralysis in 1880, and again in 1883 .

His compositions, which remained popular for some years after his See also:

death in 1884, consisted mainly of See also:ballads; but his importance in the See also:history of music is owing to .his exertions in popularizing musical education, and his persistent opposition to the Tonic Sol-Fa system, which had a success he could not foresee . His objections to it were partly grounded on the See also:character of the music which was in See also:common use among the See also:early teachers of the system . While it cannot be doubted that Hullah would have won more success if he had not opposed the Tonic Sol-Fa See also:movement so strenuously, it must be confessed that his See also:work was of See also:great value, for he kept constantly in. view and impressed upon all who followed him or learnt from him the supreme See also:necessity of maintaining the See also:artistic See also:standard of the music taught and studied, and of not allowing trumpery compositions to usurp the See also:place of See also:good music on See also:account of the greater ease with which they could be read .

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