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ROBERT LUCAS DE PEARSALL (1795-1856)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 28 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT See also:LUCAS DE See also:PEARSALL (1795-1856)  , See also:English composer, was See also:born on the 14th of See also:March 1795, at See also:Clifton . Educated for the See also:bar, he practised till 1825, when he See also:left See also:England for See also:Germany and studied See also:composition under Panny of See also:Mainz; with the exception of three comparatively See also:short visits to England, during one of which he made the acquaintance of the English school of madrigals, he lived abroad, selling his See also:family See also:property of Willsbridge and settling in the See also:castle of Wartensee, on the See also:lake of See also:Constance . He produced many See also:works of lasting beauty, nearly all of them for voices• in See also:combination: from his See also:part songs, such as "Oh, who will o'er the See also:downs?" to his elaborate and scholarly madrigals, such as the admirable eight-part compositions, " See also:Great See also:God of Love " and " See also:Lay a See also:Garland," or the beautiful " See also:Light of my Soul." His reception into the See also:Roman See also:Church in his later years may have suggested the composition of some beautiful sacred See also:music, among other things a See also:fine " Salve See also:Regina." He wrote many valuable See also:treatises on music, and edited a Roman See also:Catholic hymn-See also:book . He died on the 5th of See also:August 1856 .

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