Samuel Webbe the younger

Samuel Webbe the younger (1768–1843) was an English music teacher and composer.[1]

Not to be confused with his father Samuel Webbe the elder.

Life

The son of Samuel Webbe (1740–1816), he was born in London, and studied the organ, piano, and vocal composition under his father and Muzio Clementi.[2]

Webbe in his active interest in glee clubs followed in the footsteps of his father, and composed many canons and glees. In 1798 he moved to Liverpool, as organist to the Paradise Street Unitarian Chapel, where John Yates (1755–1826) was minister.[2][3]

Around 1817 Webbe joined John Bernard Logier in London, teaching the use of the chiroplast. There Webbe became organist to the chapel of the Spanish embassy, before returning to Liverpool, where he was appointed organist to St. Nicholas and to St. Patrick's Roman Catholic chapel. He died at Hammersmith on 25 November 1843.[2]

Works

Webbe published, with his father, A Collection of Original Psalm Tunes, 1800. He was also the author of anthems, madrigals, and glees, besides a Mass and a Sanctus, and a Chant for St Paul's Cathedral. He wrote settings for numerous songs and ballads. About 1830 he published Convito Armonico, a collection of madrigals, glees, duets, canons, and catches, by well-known composers.[2]

Family

Webbe married Diana Smith in 1803. Their son Egerton Webbe (1810–1840) wrote on musical subjects; and their daughter Louisa married Edward Holmes.[2]

Notes
  1. Olleson, Philip. "Webbe, Samuel, the younger". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28934. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Webbe, Samuel (1770?-1843)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 60. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. Webb, R. K. "Yates, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63410. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Webbe, Samuel (1770?-1843)". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 60. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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