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Henry Wellington Greatorex (1816 – September 1858) was an English-American musician.

Career

He was born in Burton upon Trent, England. He received a thorough musical education from his father, Thomas Greatorex, who was for many years organist of Westminster Abbey, and conductor of the London "concerts of ancient music." He came to the United States in 1839. In 1849, he married the artist Eliza Pratt. Prior to settling in New York City as a teacher of music and organist at Calvary Church, he played at churches in Hartford, Connecticut, including Center Church and St. John's Episcopal Church in the adjacent city of West Hartford, Connecticut.[1] Greatorex frequently sang in concerts and oratorios. For some years he was organist and conductor of the choir at St. Paul's chapel.

Greatorex did much to advance the standard of sacred music in the United States in the days when country singing-school teachers imposed their trivial melodies and the convivial measures of foreign composers on the texts of the hymn books at hand. He published a Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Chants, Anthems, and Sentences (Boston, 1851). One of Greatorex's best-known compositions is a setting of the Gloria Patri, widely used in Protestant denominations for the singing of the doxology in services to this day.

He died in Charleston, South Carolina.

Notes

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Greatorex, Henry Wellington" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.

External links

• Free scores at the Mutopia Project

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Henry Wellington Greatorex (* 1816, Burton upon Trent, England; † September 1858, Charleston, South Carolina) war ein englisch-amerikanischer Musiker.

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Henry Wellington Greatorex fue un músico nacido en Burton en Trent, Inglaterra, en 1816, murió en Charleston, Carolina del Sur, en septiembre de 1858. Recibió una completa educación musical de su padre, Thomas Greatorex, quien fuera organista por varios años de la Abadía de Westminster y director de los "conciertos de música antigua" de Londres. Viajó a los Estados Unidos en 1839, se estableció en la ciudad de Nueva York y trabajó como organista de la Iglesia de Calvary y cantaba en conciertos y oratorios. Por varios años fue el organista y director del coro de la capilla de St. Paul. Él hizo avanzar los estándares en la música sagrada que en esa época los maestros de música de las escuelas imponían sus melodías triviales y cordiales de compositores extranjeros de los textos de los libros de himnos. Él publicó una "Recopilación de Melodías, Cantos, Himnos y Frases de Salmos e Himnos" (Boston, 1851).

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