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William Boyce

English composer and organist

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, J. C. Bach, Abel, and a very young Mozart, all of whom respected his work.

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Works

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  • Blessed is the Man
  • By thy banks, gentle Stour
  • Concerto Grosso in B minor: Minuet
  • Concerto Grosso in B minor: Staccato - Largo - Allegro - Adagio - Minuet
  • Concerto Grosso in B-flat major: Moderato - Allegro - Adagio - Allegro -Gavotte
  • Concerto Grosso in E minor: Largo - Allegro - Alla Siciliana - Allegro
  • Firmly I Believe and Truly
  • Heart of Oak
  • Introduction and Trumpet Tune
  • O where shall wisdom be found?
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 1. Overture: I. Vivace - Adagio - Allegro
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 1. Overture: II. Gavot: Andante
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 1. Overture: III. Minuetto allegro
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 10. Recitative. Thus, whilst the Muse Love's boundless influence sings
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 11. Chorus. Sprung from Gods, immortal Love
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 12. Overture. Largo - Allegro
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 13. Chorus. Hail, Harmony!
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 14. Aria. Glorious Power, to thee we owe
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 15. Recitative. At Music's sacred name
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 16. Aria. With celestial glory crown'd
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 17. Recitatative. Mortals, in hymns of tuneful joy
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 18. Aria. Music, gently soothing Power
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 19. Recitative. Pleas'd the celestial visitant surveys
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 2. Chorus. See the fam'd Apollo and the Nine
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 20. Duet. As nature with the sun revives
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 21. Aria. The captive, bound in rankling chains
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 22. Recitative. The melting theme transports each mortal breast
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 23. Aria. Music can the passions raise
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 24. Recitative. Now the ætherial lyrist sweeps the strings
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 25. Aria. Mortals, scorn the boasted Nine
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 26. Allegro. Thus will your hymns, like incense, rise
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 26. Recitative. Leave transient joys, and raise the theme
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 27. Chorus. Display His goodness, Hail His might
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 3. Duet. Immortal Love, with tuneful lyres
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 4. Recitative. Aloft the strains melodious swiftly fly
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 5. Aria. What a tender, virtuous passion
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 6. Recitative. Hark the loud trumpet calls a youth to arms
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 7. Aria. The hero whom a fair one fires
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 8. Recitative. Ah! say, could Painting, could the weeping muse
  • Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 9. Aria. What cruel pangs the lover feels
  • Orpheus and Euridice
  • Overture no. 10 in F major: Allegro - Dolce Moderato - Allegro assai
  • Overture no. 11 in D major: Larghetto - Allegro - Larghetto - Tempo di Minuetto
  • Overture no. 12 in G major: Allegro - Vivace - Allegro assai
  • Psalm 24: The earth is the Lord's
  • Psalm 62: My soul truly waitheth still upon God
  • Secular Masque
  • Solomon
  • Solomon: Part I
  • Solomon: Part I. "As the rich apple, on whose boughs"
  • Solomon: Part I. "Balmy sweetness, ever flowing"
  • Solomon: Part I. "Behold, jerusalem, behold thy king"
  • Solomon: Part I. "Beneath his ample shade I lay"
  • Solomon: Part I. "Fair and comely is my love"
  • Solomon: Part I. "Fairest of the virgin throng"
  • Solomon: Part I. "Fill with cooling juice the bowl!"
  • Solomon: Part I. "Forbear, O charming swain, forbear!"
  • Solomon: Part I. "From the mountains, lo! He comes"
  • Solomon: Part I. "Let not my prince his slave Despise" / "Ah simple me! my own, more dear"
  • Solomon: Part I. "Tell me, lovely shepherd"
  • Solomon: Part I. "Who quits the lily's fleecy white"
  • Solomon: Part I. Ouverture: Largo - Allegro - Larghetto
  • Solomon: Part II
  • Solomon: Part II. "How lovely art thou to the sight"
  • Solomon: Part II. "Let me, love, thy bole ascending"
  • Solomon: Part II. "My fair's a garden of delight"
  • Solomon: Part II. "O, that a sister's specious name"
  • Solomon: Part II. "Soft, I adjure you, by the fawns"
  • Solomon: Part II. "Softly rise, O southern breeze!"
  • Solomon: Part II. "The cheerful spring begins today" / "Arise, my fair, and come away"
  • Solomon: Part II. "Together let us range the fields"
  • Solomon: Part II. Sinfonia
  • Solomon: Part III
  • Solomon: Part III. "Arise, my fair, the doors unfold"
  • Solomon: Part III. "O take me! stamp me on thy breast!"
  • Solomon: Part III. "Obedient to thy voice I hie"
  • Solomon: Part III. "On his face the vernal rose"
  • Solomon: Part III. "Sweet nymph, whom ruddier charms addorn"
  • Solomon: Part III. "This, O ye virgins"
  • Solomon: Part III. "Thou soft invader of the soul!" / "In vain we trace the globe"
  • Solomon: Part III. "Who is thy love, O charming maid!"
  • Solomon: Part III. "Ye blooming virgins, as ye rove"
  • Sonata in D major, [op. 1] no. 5
  • Suite
  • Suite D-dur
  • Suite D-dur: Brisk
  • Suite D-dur: Fuge
  • Suite D-dur: Larghetto
  • Suite D-dur: Marche
  • Suite D-dur: Menuett
  • Symphony no. 1 in B-flat major, op. 2 no. 1
  • Symphony no. 1 in B-flat major, op. 2 no. 1: I. Allegro
  • Symphony no. 1 in B-flat major, op. 2 no. 1: II. Moderato e dolce
  • Symphony no. 1 in B-flat major, op. 2 no. 1: III. Allegro
  • Symphony no. 2 in A major, op. 2 no. 2
  • Symphony no. 2 in A major, op. 2 no. 2: I. Allegro assai
  • Symphony no. 2 in A major, op. 2 no. 2: II. Vivace
  • Symphony no. 2 in A major, op. 2 no. 2: III. Presto (Allegro)
  • Symphony no. 3 in C major, op. 2 no. 3
  • Symphony no. 3 in C major, op. 2 no. 3: I. Allegro
  • Symphony no. 3 in C major, op. 2 no. 3: II. Vivace
  • Symphony no. 3 in C major, op. 2 no. 3: III. Tempo di Minuetto
  • Symphony no. 4 in F major, op. 2 no. 4
  • Symphony no. 4 in F major, op. 2 no. 4: I. Allegro
  • Symphony no. 4 in F major, op. 2 no. 4: II. Vivace ma non troppo
  • Symphony no. 4 in F major, op. 2 no. 4: III. Gavot: Allegro
  • Symphony no. 5 in D major, op. 2 no. 5
  • Symphony no. 5 in D major, op. 2 no. 5: I. Allegro ma non troppo – Adagio ad lib – Allegro assai
  • Symphony no. 5 in D major, op. 2 no. 5: II. Tempo di Gavotta
  • Symphony no. 5 in D major, op. 2 no. 5: III. Tempo di Minuetto
  • Symphony no. 6 in F major, op. 2 no. 6
  • Symphony no. 6 in F major, op. 2 no. 6: I. Largo - Allegro - Largo
  • Symphony no. 6 in F major, op. 2 no. 6: II. Larghetto
  • Symphony no. 7 in B-flat major, op. 2 no. 7
  • Symphony no. 7 in B-flat major, op. 2 no. 7: I. Andante - Spirituoso
  • Symphony no. 7 in B-flat major, op. 2 no. 7: II. Moderato
  • Symphony no. 7 in B-flat major, op. 2 no. 7: III. Jigg: Allegro assai
  • Symphony no. 8 in D minor, op. 2 no. 8
  • Symphony no. 8 in D minor, op. 2 no. 8: I. Pomposo - Allegro
  • Symphony no. 8 in D minor, op. 2 no. 8: II. Largo (Andante)
  • Symphony no. 8 in D minor, op. 2 no. 8: III. Tempo di Gavotta (Risoluto)
  • The Chaplet
  • The Chaplet: In Vain I Try My Ev’ry Art
  • Trio Sonata no. 1 in A minor
  • Trio Sonata no. 1 in A minor: I. Largo
  • Trio Sonata no. 1 in A minor: II. Fuga. Allegro
  • Trio Sonata no. 1 in A minor: III. Allegro ma non troppo
  • Trio Sonata no. 3 in A major
  • Trio Sonata no. 3 in A major: I. Largo
  • Trio Sonata no. 3 in A major: II. Fuga. Allegro assai
  • Trio Sonata no. 3 in A major: III. Adagio
  • Trio Sonata no. 3 in A major: IV. Tempo di minuetto
  • Trio Sonata no. 5 in D major: I. Allegro
  • Trio Sonata no. 5 in D major: II. Largo
  • Trio Sonata no. 5 in D major: III. Fuga. Allegro assai
  • Trumpet Voluntary
  • Voluntary in D
  • Ye Sweet Retreat