Philip Hayes (composer)
Philip Hayes ( baptized April 17, 1738 in Oxford, † March 19, 1797 in London) was an English composer, organist, singer and conductor.
Life
His early musical education was supervised by his father, the composer William Hayes. For his Masque Telemachus he was awarded the title of a B.Mus. excellent. In 1777 he earned a doctorate. In the London Chapel Royal he sang from 1767, but returned in 1776 returned to Oxford to take on the post of organist at New College and to assist his ailing father, his successor as professor of music he was 1777. He replaced him as organist at Magdalen College and the University Church. 1790 came the added position as organist at St John 's College. His " lectures" as Professor consisted of specially composed odes and oratorios, which were performed at the Oxford Music School. In 1780 he became head of the Festival of the Sons of the Clergy, which was held at St Paul 's Cathedral, and in 1791 he was the visit of Joseph Haydn in Oxford before. As a conductor, he was one of the first British musicians who used a rolled up piece of paper to beat the clock. But he was best known for his difficult personality and his corpulence. His regular trips to London in a stagecoach did not go unnoticed by scoffers in Oxford, which soon for Phil Hayes - as he was commonly called - the nickname Fill Chaise ( " carriage filler" ) invented. Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg in 1790 drew a caricature of him, which was just signed with --- From Oxford.
Hayes ' musical language combined respect for late-Baroque forms, as practiced by composers such as George Frideric Handel, with a clear view early classical styles. He was also interested in the music of earlier generations - especially to Henry Purcell and his contemporaries - and expanded the music library considerably, which he had inherited from his father. His works show an inventive instrumentation approach: by 1763 he used regularly clarinets, and his six concertos for keyboard instruments (1769 ) were the first published works in England, which offered the possibility of performance on early pianos. After his death, the unpublished manuscripts of his compositions were handed over together with the works of his father, the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
Important published works
- Six Concertos, 'for the Organ, Harpsichord or Forte Piano ', (London, 1769)
- Six Sonatas, ' for Harpsichord or Piano Forte with accompaniment on for Violin ', op.2, (London, 1774)
- The Muses Delight, Catches, Glees, Canons and Canzonets (London, 1786)
- Sixteen Psalms (Oxford, 1788)
- Catches and Glees: The Muses Tribute to Beauty (London, 1789)
- Eight Anthems (Oxford, 1803)
- Over 20 songs, 1769-1794 published separately
Discography
- Organ Concerto No.. 2 in B flat, Stephen Farr, London Bach Consort, 1995, ( Meridian CDE 84295 )
- Piano Concerto No.. 4 in A major, Paul Nicholson, Parley of Instruments, 1993 ( Hyperion Helios CDH55341 )
- Piano Concerto No.. 4 in A Major, David Owen Norris, Sonnerie, 2002, ( Avie AV0014 )