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See also:VINCENT See also:NOVELLO (1781-1861)
, See also:English musician, son of an See also:Italian who married an English wife, was See also:born in See also:London on the 6th of See also:September 1781
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As a boy he was a chorister at the Sardinian See also:chapel in See also:Duke See also:Street, See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn See also:Fields, where he learnt the See also:organ; and from 1796 to 1822 he became in See also:succession organist of the Sardinian, See also:Spanish (in See also:Manchester Square) and Portuguese (in See also:South Street, Grosvenor Square) chapels, and from 184o to 1843 of St See also:Mary's chapel, Moorfields
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He was an See also:original member of the Philharmonic Society, of the Classical Harmonists and of the Choral Harmonists, officiating frequently as conductor
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In 1849 he went to live at See also:Nice, where he died on the 9th of See also:August 1861
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He composed an immense quantity of sacred See also:music, much of which is still deservedly popular; but his See also:great See also:work See also:lay in the introduction to See also:England of unknown compositions by the great masters
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The Masses of See also:Haydn and See also:Mozart were absolutely unknown in England until he edited them, as were also the See also:works of See also:Palestrina, the treasures of the See also:Fitzwilliam Museum, and innumerable great compositions now well known to every one
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His first work, a collection of Sacred Music, as performed at the Royal Portuguese Chapel, which appeared in 1811, has the additional See also:interest of giving a date to the See also:practical See also:founding of the See also:publishing See also:firm with which his name is associated, as See also:Novello issued it from his own See also:house; and he did the same with succeeding works, till his son JosErs See also:ALFRED NOVELLO (1810-1896), who had started as a See also:bass See also:singer, became a See also:regular music publisher in 1829
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It was the latter who really created the business, and who has the See also:credit of introducing cheap music, and departing from the method of publishing by subscription
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From 1841 See also:
See also:Vincent Novello had several other See also:children besides his son See also:Joseph Alfred
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Four of his daughters (of whom the youngest, Mary, married See also: |
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