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JOHN CLARKE WHITFIELD (177o-1836)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 608 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:CLARKE See also:WHITFIELD (177o-1836)  , See also:English organist and composer, was See also:born at See also:Gloucester on the 13th of See also:December 1770, and educated at See also:Oxford under Dr See also:Philip See also:Hayes . In 1789he was appointed organist of the See also:parish See also:church at See also:Ludlow . Four years later he took the degree of See also:Mus . Bac. at See also:Cambridge, and in 1795 he was chosen organist of See also:Armagh See also:cathedral, whence he removed in the same See also:year to See also:Dublin, with the appointments of organist and See also:master of the See also:children at St See also:Patrick's cathedral and See also:Christchurch . Driven from See also:Ireland by the See also:rebellion of 1798, he accepted the See also:post of organist at Trinity and St See also:John's Colleges, Cambridge, and about the same See also:time assumed the surname of See also:Whitfield, in addition to that of See also:Clarke, by which he had been previously known . He took the degree of Mus . Doc. at Cambridge in 1799, and in 1810 proceeded to the same grade at Oxford . In 182o he was elected organist and master of the choristers at See also:Hereford cathedral; and on the See also:death of Dr Haig he was appointed See also:professor of See also:music at Cambridge . Three years after-wards he resigned these appointments in consequence of an attack of See also:paralysis . He died at Hereford, on the 22nd of See also:February 1836 . Whitfield's compositions were very numerous . Among the best of them are four volumes of anthems, published in 1805 .

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great number of songs, one of which--" See also:Bird of the See also:Wilderness," written to some well-known verses by See also:James See also:Hogg, the " See also:Ettrick Shepherd "—attained a high degree of popularity . But the great See also:work of his See also:life was the publication, in a popular and eminently useful See also:form, of the oratorios of See also:Handel, which he was the first to See also:present to the public with a See also:complete See also:pianoforte See also:accompaniment .

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