John Stanley

Charles John Stanley (January 17th 1712 - May 19th 1786) was a Compositeur and British Organiste. Stanley, which became blind very young person, studied the music with Maurice Greene and makes a certain number of concerts of Orgue to London. It was friendly with Georg Friedrich Haendel, and after the death of this last, Stanley joined first of all John Christopher Smith and later Thomas Linley to continue the series of Oratorio that Handel had started.

In 1779, Stanley succeeded William Boyce like Master off the Queen' S Music.

Work of Stanley comprises the opera Teraminta , the dramatic Cantate the choice of Hercules , twelve other cantatas whose texts were written by John Hawkins, the Oratorio S Jephtha, the autumn of Egypt and Zimri , as well as instrumental music, in particular three volumes for trumpet (1748, 1752, and 1754).

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