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GEORG See also:ERNST See also:STAHL (1660-1734)
, See also:German chemist and physician, was See also:born on the 2ISt of See also:October 166o at Anspach
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Having graduated in See also:medicine at See also:Jena in 1683, he became See also:court physician to the See also:duke of See also:Weimar in 1687
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From 1694 to 1716 he held the See also:chair of medicine at See also:Halle, and was then appointed physician to the See also: He was appointed to Magdalen College, See also:Oxford, in 186o, and became university organist in the following year . While at Oxford he did much to bring the choir of Magdalen to a remarkable See also:state of excellence; he took a keen See also:interest in the See also:foundation of various musical See also:societies; and as a sign of his appreciation of the value of general culture, it is See also:worth recording that he took the degree of B.A. in 1864, that of See also:Mus . D. in 1865, and procured M.A. in 1867, being appointed a university examiner in music in the same year . In 1868 he was engaged frequently as See also:solo, organist at the Crystal See also:Palace; and in 1872 was appointed organist of St Paul's, where he raised the See also:standard of choral music to something very like perfection . He was See also:professor of the organ in the See also:National Training School of Music from 1876, and in 1881 succeeded his lifelong friend See also:Sullivan as See also:principal . In 1878 he was a juror at the See also:Paris See also:Exhibition, and was created See also:Chevalier of the See also:Legion d'Honneur . In 1882 he became inspector of music in training colleges . In 1888 he retired from the organistship of St Paul's owing to failing eyesight, and was knighted . In 1889 he succeeded Ouseley as professor of music in the university of Oxford, holding the post till 1899 . Besides these See also:official distinctions he received a See also:great number of honorary degrees: he was See also:vice-See also:president of the Royal College of Organists, and president of the See also:Plain-See also:song and See also:Medieval Music Society, the See also:London Gregorian Association, and the Musical Association . His compositions include four oratorios: See also:Gideon (1865), The Daughter of Jairus (See also:Worcester, 1878), St See also:Mary Magdalen (See also:Gloucester, 1887), Crucifixion (London, 1887); See also:forty-two anthems, some of them very elaborate; many hymn-tunes, organ pieces, madrigals, &c . His professorial lectures were of great value, and he made many contributions to the literature of music .
He was a See also:man of wide See also:influence, with a remarkable See also:faculty of organization, and his See also:work in regard to the conditions of the musical profession was of considerable importance
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His own music has many of the defects of his qualities, for his breadth of See also:artistic views led him to admire and adopt many styles that are not always compatible with each other
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He died while on a See also:holiday at See also:Verona on the 31st of See also: |
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