Biography of composer william boyce baroque
Biography of composer william boyce baroque period
William boyce symphony 1...
William Boyce (composer)
English composer and organist (18th. c.)
William Boyce (baptised 11 September 1711 – 7 February 1779) was an English composer and organist.
Like Beethoven later on, he became deaf but continued to compose. He knew Handel, Arne, Gluck, Bach, Abel, and a very young Mozart, all of whom respected his work.
Life
Boyce was born in London, at Joiners Hall, then in Lower Thames Street, to John Boyce, at the time a joiner and cabinet-maker, and beadle of the Worshipful Company of Joiners and Ceilers, and his wife Elizabeth Cordwell.
Biography of composer william boyce baroque
He was baptised on 11 September 1711 and was admitted by his father as a choirboy at St Paul's Cathedral in 1719. After his voice broke in 1727, he studied music with Maurice Greene.[1]
His first professional appointment came in 1734 when he was employed as an organist at the Oxford Chapel in central London.
He went on to take a number of similar posts before being appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1757 (h