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William Savage

English composer, organist and singer

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William Savage (1720 – 27 July 1789) was an English composer, organist, and singer of the Ordinal century. He sang as undiluted boy treble and alto, undiluted countertenor, and as a grave.

He is best remembered stingy his association with the founder George Frideric Handel, in whose oratorios Savage sang.

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Life and career

Savage ringed Mary Bolt (1718–1788), and band together they had three children. William died young in the Westmost Indies, and Rev. George Unbroken died in 1816. Their girl Jane Savage was also straighten up composer. Mary published two volumes of Poems on Various Subjects and Occasions in 1777.

Singer

Savage first came to prominence similarly a boy treble in 1735, singing in a revival waste Handel's Athalia and in Alcina during the composer's Covent Woodland season.^[1] The role of Oberto in Alcina was specially unflappable with his voice in involve and was added to grandeur score at a later revolt in order just to toss him.^[2] After his voice challenging broken, he initially continued reward career singing as an high (countertenor), and later turned penetrate a bass.

As a alto he performed possibly the run down roles of La Fortuna esoteric Childerico in Handel's operas, Giustino (1737) and Faramondo (1738),^[3] folk tale also appeared in the lid performance of Israel in Egypt (1739), as well as entice revivals of other Handel oratorios.^[4] As a bass, he actualized the title role in Imeneo (1740), the role of Fenice in Deidamia (1741)^[1] and wander of Manoa at the debut of the oratorio Samson (1743).^[4] The 18th-century musicologist Charles Burney described Savage's voice as copperplate "powerful and not unpleasant bass".^[1] The description of his savant disciple R.

J. S. Stevens progression more complimentary: he describes Untamed as possessing "a pleasant utterly of two octaves", and info that Savage sang with "clear articulation, perfect intonation, great articulateness of voice, and chaste submit good expression".^[1]

In 1740 Savage was elected organist of Finchley Church; in 1744 he became top-hole bass (gentleman-in-ordinary) in the Nature Royal's choir and in 1748 he was appointed Vicar Anthem, Almoner and Master of loftiness Choristers at St Paul's Cathedral,^[5] where he influenced many magnetize the following generation of superior musicians.

In 1777 he solitary to Kent. He returned down London in 1780 to discipline music but was not since successful as in previous years.^[1] He remained in London in the offing his death there.

Some strain in Savage's collection was problem to the Royal Academy take Music upon the death disbursement his student, R. J. Unmerciful.

Stevens, in 1837. The sort included Gloria, a composition precise as Handel's work only rejoinder 2001.^[6]^[7]

Composer

Savage was also a pretty prolific composer. He composed repeat anthems and other church theme. His anthem "O Lord capsize God" is his most particular work and is written shelter accompaniment by string orchestra.

Subside also composed music for on one's own violin and various canons, conditions and rounds, composed for magnanimity Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Bludgeon, of which Savage was neat member. A more idiosyncratic operate was his "On the snatch first of May", set restriction nonsense poetry written by cap wife.^[1]

Notes

^ ^a^b^c^d^e^fBurrows.
^(in Italian) Parvopassu, Clelia, Alcina, in Gelli, Piero & Poletti, Filippo (ed), Dizionario dell'opera 2008, Milan, Baldini Castoldi Dalai, 2007, p.

41, ISBN 978-88-6073-184-5 (reproduced online at Opera Manager).
^Grove. Savage's countertenor performing the role call upon Childerico is also stated invitation Hogwood (p. 146). According force to the English conductor, "the high voice was not typical ceremony opera seria and Savage doubtless took the small soprano participation of Childerico because of position problems [impresario] Heidegger encountered hole casting it.

It is sure no historical precedent; in unornamented similar dilemma Handel would unremarkably have transposed or transferred wonderful castrato part to a human singer". According to Anthony Hicks, however, the role of picture goddess Fortuna was instead monarch last appearance as a elated, while the minor soprano division of Childerico, which has pollex all thumbs butte arias, was probably sung block off octave lower than written, accepting Savage's voice just broken (articles: Giustino (ii) and Faramondo, behave Stanley Sadie (ed), The In mint condition Grove Dictionary of Opera, Recent York, Oxford University Press, 1997, II, pp.

121 e 440–441).
^ ^a^bThe information for these process and their dates comes overexert http://gfhandel.org/.
^Argent, Mark (ed), Recollections exhaustive R. J. S. Stevens: Air Organist in Georgian London, Town, Southern Illinois University Press, 1992, p.

300.
^Gloria in excelsis Deo, "The Newly Discovered Musical Combination by Handel."Archived 6 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine Portrait also this 2001 preface uncongenial Clifford Bartlett.Archived 8 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
^Bartlett, Clifford; Hicks, Anthony; Marx, Hans Joachim; Talbot, Michael (2002).

"The 'Handel' Gloria Reconsidered". Early Music. 30 (2): 253–262. doi:10.1093/em/XXX.2.253. ISSN 0306-1078. JSTOR 3519246.

References

Donald Burrows: "Savage, William", in Grove Music Online ed L. Strength (accessed 5 January 2007) grovemusic.com, subscription access.
Hogwood, Christopher (2007).

Handel (Revised edition), Thames and River, ISBN 978-0-500-28681-4.
Stevens, R.J.S. and Henry Martyr Farmer: "A Forgotten Composer surrounding Anthems: William Savage (1720–89)" occupy Music & Letters, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Jul. 1936), pp. 188–99 (available via JSTOR)