13-501: Lockey is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Charles Lockey (1820-1901), English singer Justin Lockey (born 1980), British musician Rowland Lockey (1565-1616), English painter and goldsmith Thomas Lockey (c. 1602–1679), English librarian and Anglican priest Tilly Lockey (born 2005), British amputee [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
26-485: A throat disorder, and entered into business at Gravesend and Dover. He nominally held his position at St Paul's until his death, but for forty-three years Fred Walker, Joseph Barnby , and Edward Lloyd were his deputies. He died on 3 December 1901 in Hastings. Attribution Joseph Barnby Sir Joseph Barnby (12 August 1838 – 28 January 1896) was an English composer and conductor . Barnby
39-469: Is King ( Psalm 97 ), many services and anthems , and 246 hymn tunes (published in 1897 in one volume), as well as some partsongs and songs (among them, Now The Day Is Over , and the popular lullaby using Alfred, Lord Tennyson 's words Sweet and Low ) and some pieces for the pipe organ . Barnby was an advocate of J.S. Bach's music, and proposed to Dean Stanley the 1870 performance of St John's Passion, with full orchestra and choir of 500 voices. He
52-620: The Three Choirs Festival and the Sacred Harmonic Society . In 1846 Lockey was engaged for the Birmingham Festival : in the first performance, on 26 August, of Mendelssohn 's oratorio Elijah he sang "Then shall the righteous". Mendelssohn, on hearing him rehearse the song, asked him also to sing "If with all your hearts", which had been assigned to another singer. "A young English tenor,"
65-551: The surname Lockey . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lockey&oldid=1075839240 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description with empty Wikidata description All set index articles Charles Lockey Charles Lockey (20 March 1820 – 3 December 1901)
78-707: The choirs of St George's Chapel, Windsor , and Eton College Chapel . In 1843 he became a vicar-choral of St Paul's Cathedral . His first public appearance in oratorio was in October 1842, when he sang in Rossini's Stabat Mater for the Melophonic Society . In 1848 he was appointed a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal . He performed at the Concerts of Antient Music in 1846; he also sang at concerts of
91-437: The composer wrote in a letter, "sang the last air so very beautifully that I was obliged to collect myself to prevent my being overcome, and to enable me to beat time steadily." On 24 May 1853 he married Martha Williams, a contralto singer (died 1897). They had four children, John, Charles, Richard and Martha. Apparently only one son, John, outlived Charles and Martha. Lockey retired from public life about 1862, on account of
104-463: The services to a high degree of excellence. It was at St Andrew's that in 1864, Barnby and the choir performed two anthems by Alice Mary Smith ; this is believed to be the first time that liturgical music composed by a woman was performed in the Church of England . He was conductor of "Barnby's Choir" from 1864, at first giving concerts at St James's Hall and afterwards at Exeter Hall. In 1871 he
117-525: Was an English singer. A tenor , he is known particularly as a soloist in the first performance of Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah . He was born in Thatcham in Berkshire, on 20 March 1820, son of Angel Lockey of Oxford. He was a choirboy at Magdalen College, Oxford , from 1828 to 1836, and afterwards studied singing with Edward Harris at Bath; in 1842 he was a pupil of Sir George Smart . Lockey sang in
130-660: Was appointed, in succession to Charles Gounod , conductor of the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society , a post he held till his death. Meanwhile, he had left St Andrew's for a similar position at St Anne's, Soho. In 1875, he was precentor and director of music at Eton College , and in 1892 became principal of the Guildhall School of Music , receiving the honour of knighthood in July of that year. His works include an oratorio Rebekah , The Lord
143-608: Was born at York , as a son of Thomas Barnby, who was an organist . Joseph was a chorister at York Minster from the age of seven. His voice broke at the age of fifteen and he studied for two to three years at the Royal Academy of Music under Cipriani Potter and Charles Lucas . He was narrowly beaten by Arthur Sullivan in competition for the Mendelssohn Scholarship. In 1862 he was appointed organist of St Andrew's, Wells Street , London, where he raised
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#1732798582862156-494: Was buried in West Norwood Cemetery . Discussing English composers, Barnby said: "Sullivan, of course, has done his work in a straightforward way, and gained all the success he could have hoped for. With regard, however, to men bitten with a desire to produce advanced music, the result so far has been scarcely so satisfactory." A possibly apocryphal story about him got as far as New Zealand: A young contralto at
169-734: Was largely instrumental in stimulating the love for Gounod's sacred music among the less educated part of the London public, although he displayed little practical sympathy with opera . On the other hand, he organized a remarkable concert performance of Parsifal at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1884. He conducted the Cardiff Festivals of 1892 and 1895. He died in London and, after a special service in St Paul's Cathedral
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