Pelham Humfrey

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Humfrey's dress sense and general demeanour is mentioned unfavourably in the diary of Samuel Pepys. He writes: Little Pelham Humphreys is an absolute monsieur as full of form and confidence and vanity, and disparages everybody's skill but his own. HUMFREY, PELHAM (–), musician and composer, said to have been the nephew of Colonel John Humphrey, Bradshaw's sword-bearer, was born in His name occurs as Humphrey, Humphrys, and in other forms, but the above is that adopted by himself.

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Pelham Humfrey A Hymn to God the Father (Harmonia Sacra, Book 1, ). Musician and composer Pelham Humfrey is buried in the east cloister of Westminster Abbey not far from the door Pelham Humfrey book into the church.

The inscription on his gravestone has worn away but it is recorded in early guidebooks: Here lieth interred the body of Mr Pelham Humphrey who died 14th of July Anno Dom.

in the 27th year of his age. Pelham Humfrey, English composer and lutenist, especially admired for his anthems and sacred solo songs. Humfrey was a chorister in the Chapel Royal under Capt. Henry Cooke and at age 17 was sent to France and Italy to study. While abroad he was appointed royal lutenist and gentleman of the Chapel.

Pelham Humfrey (also: Humphrey) (born London ; died Windsor 14 July ) was an English composer in the Baroque period. Although he died at the age of 26 he had an important influence on English composers such as William Turner and Henry lived at the time of the Restoration, when England was ruled by a king once more after two decades of republican.

Pelham Humfrey. From ChoralWiki. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Life. Born: Died: 14 July Biography. The entry in Cathedral Music, Volume 2 (William Boyce) reads: Pelham Humphrys, was one of the first Children of the Chapel Royal after the Restauration. He was admitted a Gentleman of the said Chapel inand succeeded Henry.

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Pelham Humfrey (or Hemphryes): Harmonia Sacra, Book I, -- A Hymn to God the Father Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor) & Gustav Leonhardt (organ) Deller Vol. 4; Handel, Bach & The English. Pelham in this version arrived from Tennessee in He settled in Nacogdoches.

He acquired the famous league on Februand died intestate in Nacogdoches in or R.B. Wllkerson testified that Pelham was killed by Mexicans over a. UPC Code: Release Date: November Originally recorded in   A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — Humfrey, Pelham ​ HUMFREY, Pelham (as he himself wrote his name, although it is commonly found as Humphry or Humphrys, with every possible ​ variety of spelling), was born in 'He is said to have been a nephew of Col.

John Humphrey, a noted Cromwellian, and Bradshaw's sword-bearer.'. The main focus of the programme is Pelham Humfrey (), whose reputation may even have rivalled that of Purcell had he not died so prematurely; alongside Humfrey, there are verse (or rather 'synfony') anthems by Henry Cooke (c), who was largely responsible for the reforming and training of the Chapel Royal after the restoration of 5/5(3).

" A Hymn to God the Father ", also titled " To Christ ", is a poem by English poet and clergyman John Donne (). It is one of his Divine Poems.

Its date of composition is unknown. The poem was set to music by Pelham Humfrey in the 17th century and posthumously published in Harmonia Sacra, Book 1 (). Poor Pelham Humfrey. Not only did he die at the age of 26 - after a brilliant start to his career as composer to the Chapel Royal under King Charles II - but his character has had a bad press ever since, due entirely to a withering entry in the diary of Samuel Pepys.

Pelham Humfrey Biography (Wikipedia) Pelham Humfrey (Humphrey, Humphrys) ( in London – 14 July in Windsor) was an English composer. He was the first of the new generation of English.

HUMFREY, HUMPHREY, or HUMPHRYS, Pelham (). A famous English musician, and one of the founders of modern English music. He was born in London. He was one of the children of the Chapel Royal, and while yet a boy composed considerable Church music, and in a book of Divine Services and Anthems, published by Clifford inthere are five anthems ascribed.

Indenture signed twice (“Pelham: Humfrey”) as witness to a deed signed by his future father-in-law, the singer and composer Captain Henry Cooke, Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal, and Cooke’s wife Mary, leasing Copt Hall and associated property in Puckley, Kent, for twenty-one years to John Neppeker (or Nepeker), butcher; Pelham’s two signatures, together with.

John Blow, Pelham Humfrey, Matthew Locke, Henry Purcell, David Thomas [bass], Owen Grundy, Roderick Earle, Stephen Varcoe, Marilyn Sansom - Music of the Chapels Royal Music - Music.THE WILL OF PELHAM HUMFREY by Peter Dennis on On 30th July the will of Pelham Humfrey was proved in the Court of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster.

Humfrey, who remains perhaps most elusive among major composers of the Restoration period, had died at Windsor some two weeks earlier.William Byrd, Pelham Humfrey, Orlando Gibbons, Nicholas McGegan, Bill Ives, Romanesca, Chanticleer, The Choir of Clare College Cambridge, The Choir of Magdalen College Oxford, Fretwork - English Church Music: Byrd / Humfrey / Gibbons - Music/5(2).