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    William Crotch (5 July 1775 – 29 December 1847) was an English composer and organist. According to the British musicologist Nicholas Temperley, Crotch...
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  • table George Robert Crotch (1842-1874), British entomologist William Crotch (1775-1847), English composer, organist and artist Crotch Hill, a summit in...
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    Mary's church, Cambridge, and supposedly a variation, attributed to William Crotch, based on violin phrases from the air "I know that my Redeemer liveth"...
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  • who was the Professor of Music from 1755, or his undergraduate pupil, William Crotch (1775–1847). This chime is traditionally, though without substantiation...
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    teacher's teachers Crotch (1775-1847) studied with teachers including Charles Hague and Pieter Hellendaal. Lucy Anderson William Sterndale Bennett [pupils]...
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    how to achieve great effects, by such simple means." Since 1831, when William Crotch raised the issue in his Substance of Several Lectures on Music, scholars...
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    published, and in 1812 was set to music by the composer William Crotch as an oratorio. Crotch had been professor of music at Oxford since 1797. "None...
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  • Royal Academy of Music founded, initially near Hanover Square with William Crotch as first principal. It opens in March 1823 before the Royal charter...
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    grandson of the English composer and organist William Crotch. Born in Taunton, Somerset, England, Crotch became interested in insects, especially Coleoptera...
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  • of the Academy of Ancient Music and the London Handel Festival, and William Crotch Professor of Historical Performance, Royal Academy of Music. For services...
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