Author : Samuel Wesley (Composer.)
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : Samuel Wesley
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 12,34 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : Samuel Wesley
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780198164234
Samuel Wesley (1766-1837) was the son of the hymn-writer Charles Wesley and the nephew of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. He was one of the leading composers in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England, and the finest organist of his day. He was also a misfit and a rebel, renowned for his outspoken views, his frequently wild behavior, and his irregular personal life. His music has become increasingly well known in recent years, and these letters to his friends and fellow musicians, over 400 of which are gathered together here for the first time, present both a witty, perceptive, and unparalleled portrait of Wesley the man, and an insiders view of life in the music profession in London in the early nineteenth-century.
Author : Michael Kassler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 41,19 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 135155011X
Hailed as a child prodigy and later acclaimed as England's finest extempore organist, Samuel Wesley - son of Charles Wesley and nephew of John Wesley, the founders of Methodism - is best known today for his musical compositions and for his promotion of the music of J. S. Bach. At the heart of this source book is a calendar of Samuel Wesley's correspondence. The editors date and summarise the content of over 1100 surviving letters and other documents, most of which have not previously been published. The book accordingly reveals considerable new information about Wesley and his complex personal affairs, including his incarceration for debt and his confinement in a lunatic asylum for a year. Many details are provided about London musical life in the era from Boyce to Mendelssohn that prior scholars have not taken into account. The book also presents a chronology of Wesley's life, a descriptive list of his nearly 550 musical and literary works, a discography, an iconography and a bibliography. It therefore is the most comprehensive available reference source for Wesley's life, times and music.
Author : Samuel Wesley
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 31,18 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Composers
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Author : Charles Wesley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 26,49 MB
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0199259968
This first volume of a two volume edition contains letters written between 1727 and 1756 by the famous hymn writer, poet and co-founder of Methodism, Charles Wesley (1707-1788). The edition brings together texts which are located in libraries and archives from across the globe and here presents them as a complete collection for the first time.
Author : Arthur Alan Torpy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 2009
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ISBN : 0810860589
For the better part of two centuries, Wesley scholars have been given a picture of the family of John Wesley that focuses positively upon the relationships of John and his brother Charles and his mother Susanna. What has come down to us about John Wesley's father--Samuel Wesley, Sr.--is a mixture of good and bad character traits, mostly seemingly inconsequential with respect to the making of Methodism under John and Charles. Now with Arthur Torpy's work, we have reason to think differently. Samuel Wesley, Sr. was a complex person whose thoughts, actions, and convictions were based on his understanding and practice of his tradition, experience, scripture, and reasoning. The Prevenient Piety of Samuel Wesley, Sr. examines the life of Samuel Wesley, exploring the influences of his early Dissenting upbringing, his Oxford education, subsequent published writings, and post 1709 sermons.
Author : John Wesley
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Page : 564 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 1827
Category : Methodism
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Author : Luke Tyerman
Publisher :
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 1866
Category : Clergy
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Author : Tim Fulford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,58 MB
Release : 2023-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000544389
The Life of Wesley was one of Southey’s most influential and bestselling works. It was the first biography of John Wesley – the major figure in the largest religious movement of the eighteenth century – to be published by anyone beyond the Methodist community. In addition, it was a major history of the rise of a phenomenon that Southey and many others saw as a defining sign of contemporary history – the rise of sectarianism and of religious cults. This two-volume edition will represent the full text of the 1820 edition. It will include a comprehensive critical apparatus that will make sense of the major issues posed by the text and how it contributes to studies of both Southey and Romanticism. The edition will feature a critical and contextual introduction, which will set out the origins and composition of the text together with its publication history, as well as offer a carefully considered view of the interplay between the Life and other biographies of Wesley and accounts of Methodism, bringing into view the wide array of sources and influences Southey drew from. It will also examine the book’s reception history, incorporating material from reviews of the period and detailing the controversy it caused in the Methodist community.
