Rule britannia composer thomas arne biography
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Thomas Arne
18th-century British composer
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| Born | Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-03-12)12 March 1710 Covent Garden, London, England |
| Died | 5 March 1778(1778-03-05) (aged 67) London, England |
| Education | Eton College |
Thomas Augustine Arne (; 12 March 1710 – 5 March 1778) was an English composer. He is best known for his patriotic song "Rule, Britannia!" and the song "A-Hunting We Will Go", the latter composed for a 1777 production of The Beggar's Opera, which has since become popular as a folk song and a nursery rhyme.[1] Arne was a leading British theatre composer of the 18th century, working at the West End's Drury Lane and Covent Garden. He wrote many operatic entertainments for the London theatres and pleasure gardens, as well as concertos, sinfonias, and sonatas.[2]
Early life
[edit]Arne was born on 12 March 1710 in Covent Garden and baptised as a Roman Catholic. He came from a long line of Catho
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Thomas Arne
Thomas Arne was born in London in 1710. Discouraged from an early age bygd his father to become a musician, Arne left Eton to follow a career in law. However, after much persuasion from his friend and composer, Michael Festing, his father agreed that Arne should follow a career in music. He became a prolific composer of operas, which were frequently performed at the Royal musikdrama House, Covent Garden, masques and Shakespeare song settings.
His first composition of importance, ‘Rosamund’, took place in Lincoln’s Inn and was a great success, being repeated ten times. Three very successful masques followed in efterträdelse eller följd, the first, Comus’, which was performed at the Drury Lane Theatre, the second, ‘The Judgement of Paris’, performed at Cliveden in front of the Prince of Wales to celebrate the birthday of his daughter, and the third, The Masque of Althred’ which concludes with his well-known masterpiece ‘Rule Britannia’. In 1740 Arne composed the music for the first in a serie
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Thomas Augustine Arne
Arne, THOMAS AUGUSTINE, an English composer, b. March 12, 1710, at London; d. March 5, 1778. Although of Catholic parentage, he was educated at Eton, and was apprenticed in a solicitor’s office for three years. In 1740 he married Cecilia Young, oldest daughter of Charles Young, organist of All Hallows, Barking, a pupil of Geminiani and one of the best singers of her day. Arne wrote the music for Thomson and Mallet’s masque of “Alfred”, to celebrate the anniversary of the accession of the House of Hanover. It is in this work the well known “Rule Britannia” occurs. In 1742 Arne went to Ireland, and during his sojourn there produced his oratorio “Abel” and his operas “Britannia” and “Comus” with great success. On his return, he was engaged again as composer at Drury Lane, and in 1745, in the same capacity at Vauxhall, Ranelagh, and Marylebone Gardens. The University of Oxford conferred the d