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with , — - Sir , I hear you have got an English Mozart in your hpuse young Linley tells me wonderful things of him . ' I called Sam to answer for himself He had by this time scra , vvled down his oratorio of ' Ruth / The Doctor looked over it very carefolly , and seemed bighly pleased with the performance . Soihe of his words were : ' These airs are some of the prettiest I have seen : this boy writes by
nature as true a bass as I can by rule and study . There is no man in England has tAvo such sons / & c . He bade us let him go on ad && # ^ m ^ withoiit any check of rules or masters . After this , whenever the Doctor visited us , Sam ran to him , with his long sonata or anthem , and the Doctor examined them with astonishing patience and delight .
"As soon as Samuel had quite finished his oratorio , he sent it as a present to the Doctor , who immediately h onoured him with the following note :--- : ¦ ¦¦ "; . " . 4 T o / Mr .: Samuel Wesley . —Dr . Boyce ' s compliments and thanks to his very ingenious brother composer , Mr . W " . S ., and is very much pleased and obliged by the possession of the oratorio of 6 Ruth / Avhich he shall preserve Avith the utmost care , as the most curious product of his musical library . " For the year that Samuel continued under Mr . Williams , it was hard to say which was the master and which the scholar . Samuel
chose what music he would learn , and often broke out into extemporary playing , his master wisely letting him do as he pleased , During this time he taught himself the viohn ; a soldier assisted him about six weeks , and some time after , Mr . Kingsbury gave him twenty lessons . His favourite instrument was the organ . He spent a month at Bath while we were in Wales , served the Abbey on Sunday , gave them several voluntaries , and played the first fiddle in
many " private concerts , " He returned with us to London , greatly improved in his playing . There I allowed him a month for learning all Handel ' s overtures . He played them over to me in three days . Handel ' s concertos he learnt with equal ease , and some of his lessons and Scarlatti ' s . Like Charles , he mastered the hardest music without any pains or difficulty . . " Mr . Madan now began carrying him about to his musical friends . He played several times at home to many of the nobility , and some eminent masters ancl judges of music . They gave him subjects and music which he had never seen . Mr . Burton , Mr . Bates , & c , expressed their admiration in the strongest terms . His extempore fugues , they said , Avere just and regular , but could not believe that he knew nothing ofthe rules of composition . " Several companies he entertained for hours together with his own music . The learned Were quite astonished . Sir John Hawkins cried out , ' Inspiration , inspiration ! ' Dr . Cooke candidly acknowledged , ' He has got that which Ave are searching after / although at first , out of pure good-nature , he refused to give him a subject ; . An old musical gentleman hearing him > could not rpfrain from tears .
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Biographical Sketches Of Eminent (Deceas...
with , — - Sir , I hear you have got an English Mozart in your hpuse young Linley tells me wonderful things of him . ' I called Sam to answer for himself He had by this time scra , vvled down his oratorio of ' Ruth / The Doctor looked over it very carefolly , and seemed bighly pleased with the performance . Soihe of his words were : ' These airs are some of the prettiest I have seen : this boy writes by
nature as true a bass as I can by rule and study . There is no man in England has tAvo such sons / & c . He bade us let him go on ad && # ^ m ^ withoiit any check of rules or masters . After this , whenever the Doctor visited us , Sam ran to him , with his long sonata or anthem , and the Doctor examined them with astonishing patience and delight .
"As soon as Samuel had quite finished his oratorio , he sent it as a present to the Doctor , who immediately h onoured him with the following note :--- : ¦ ¦¦ "; . " . 4 T o / Mr .: Samuel Wesley . —Dr . Boyce ' s compliments and thanks to his very ingenious brother composer , Mr . W " . S ., and is very much pleased and obliged by the possession of the oratorio of 6 Ruth / Avhich he shall preserve Avith the utmost care , as the most curious product of his musical library . " For the year that Samuel continued under Mr . Williams , it was hard to say which was the master and which the scholar . Samuel
chose what music he would learn , and often broke out into extemporary playing , his master wisely letting him do as he pleased , During this time he taught himself the viohn ; a soldier assisted him about six weeks , and some time after , Mr . Kingsbury gave him twenty lessons . His favourite instrument was the organ . He spent a month at Bath while we were in Wales , served the Abbey on Sunday , gave them several voluntaries , and played the first fiddle in
many " private concerts , " He returned with us to London , greatly improved in his playing . There I allowed him a month for learning all Handel ' s overtures . He played them over to me in three days . Handel ' s concertos he learnt with equal ease , and some of his lessons and Scarlatti ' s . Like Charles , he mastered the hardest music without any pains or difficulty . . " Mr . Madan now began carrying him about to his musical friends . He played several times at home to many of the nobility , and some eminent masters ancl judges of music . They gave him subjects and music which he had never seen . Mr . Burton , Mr . Bates , & c , expressed their admiration in the strongest terms . His extempore fugues , they said , Avere just and regular , but could not believe that he knew nothing ofthe rules of composition . " Several companies he entertained for hours together with his own music . The learned Were quite astonished . Sir John Hawkins cried out , ' Inspiration , inspiration ! ' Dr . Cooke candidly acknowledged , ' He has got that which Ave are searching after / although at first , out of pure good-nature , he refused to give him a subject ; . An old musical gentleman hearing him > could not rpfrain from tears .