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See also: English composer, was the son of the Rev
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Dr See also: Pearson of St See also: John's
See also: College, See also: Oxford, where he was See also: born in 1815; his See also: father afterwards became dean of See also: Salisbury
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Pierson was educated at See also: Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was at first intended for the career of See also: medicine
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His musical See also: powers were too strong to be repressed, and after receiving instruction from Attwood and A
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Corfe he went in 1839 to See also: Germany to study under C
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Rink, Tomaschek and Reissiger
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He was elected See also: Reid Professor of See also: Music in See also: Edinburgh in 1844, but, owing to a disagreement with the authorities, he resigned in the following See also: year, and definitely adopted Germany as his country about the same See also: time, making the change in his names noted above
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His two operas, Leila (See also: Hamburg, 1848) and See also: Contarini (Hamburg, 1872), have not retained their hold upon the See also: German public as his music to See also: Faust has done, a See also: work which until quite recently was frequently associated with Goethe's drama
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Ile was never recognized in See also: England as he was in Germany, for most of his career See also: fell in the See also: period of the Mendelssohn fashion
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His' most important work was the See also: oratorio Jerusalem, produced at the Norwich Festival of 1852, and subsequently given in See also: London (Sacred See also: Harmonic Society, 1853) and See also: Wurzburg (1862)
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For the Norwich Festival (at one of the meetings a selection from his Faust music was given with success) he began an oratorio, Hezekiah, in 1869; it was not finished, but was given in a fragmentary condition at the festival of that year . These two largeSee also: works and a number of Pierson's songs, as well as the three overtures played at the Crystal Palace, reveal undeniable originality and a See also: wealth of melodic ideas
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He was weak in contrapuntal skill, and his music was wanting in outline and coherence; but in more fortunate conditions his See also: great gifts might have been turned to better account
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He died at See also: Leipzig on the 28th of See also: January 1873, and was buried at Sonning, Berks., of which parish his See also: brother, See also: Canon Pearson, was rector
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