Vincent Novello

Vincent Novello ( born September 6, 1781 London, † August 9, 1861 in Nice ) was an English musician and music publishers.

Novello was the son of an Italian and an English mother. As a boy he was a chorister in the Sardinian Chapel in Duke Street, Lincoln 's Inn Fields, where he learned the organ. From 1796 to 1822 he was successively organist at churches in Manchester Square, Grosvenor Square, and from 1840 to 1843 at St Mary Moorfields. He was a founding member of the Philharmonic Society, the Classical Harmonists and the Choral Harmonists and often acted as a conductor. In 1849 he sat down to rest in Nice.

Novello composed a considerable number of works of sacred music, but above all he was unknown works of great composers known in England. The Measure of Haydn and Mozart were completely unknown before he edited, as well as the works of Palestrina.

With his first work, a collection of sacred music as it was performed at the Royal Portuguese Chapel, he founded the music publishing, with which his name is usually connected. In 1829, his son Joseph Alfred Novello ( 1810-1896 ), who began as a bass that will work for the publisher. Actually, this is the merit to be moved away from sales through subscriptions and published inexpensive sheet music to have. From 1841 Henry Littleton assisted in publishing and in 1861 partner, after which the company " Novello & Co. " has been renamed. As J. A. Novello retired, he became sole owner.

Besides Joseph Alfred Vincent Novello had several other children. Four of his daughters (of which the youngest, Mary, Charles Cowden Clarke married ) were talented singers. The most famous was Clara Novello (1818-1908), which was alike in opera, oratorio and on the concert stage to a well-known singer with her beautiful high soprano voice of 1833.

• Artists ( London)
• Briton
• Music Publishers
• Born in 1781
• Died in 1861
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