29-618: (Redirected from Tony Shaw ) Anthony or Tony Shaw may refer to: Anthony Shaw (violinist) (1747–1792), English violinist Anthony Shaw (British Army officer) (1930–2015), director general of the Army Medical Services Tony Shaw (Australian rules footballer) (born 1960), Australian rules footballer Tony Shaw (rugby union) (born 1953), Australian rugby union player Antony Shaw , New Zealand barrister and law professor [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
58-426: A glowing testimonial "to my beloved partner, Ann, Mrs. Shield". Victorian chroniclers skirted round the problem, but when the will was proved on 6 March 1829 the estate was claimed by, "Ann Stokes, alias Shield, Spinster, belonging to Marleybone". His favourite violin was given to King George IV , who insisted that the full value be given to Ann. Within six months she also sold his library of music, but nothing more
87-508: A large number of operas and other stage works. These included one on Robin Hood (1784), text by Macnally , as well as instrumental music, but he is principally known for his English light opera Rosina (1781). It was intended to be used as a light afterpiece to a more "serious" work sung in Italian. Such works were common at the time, although Rosina is the only one that has survived in
116-733: A member of the Royal Society of Musicians in 1754. Anthony's father was a "superannuated musician" according to the European Magazine and London Review when he died in Bath in 1792. By 1768, Anthony was already living in London; indeed he is likely to be the Anthony Shaw, a Saint-Augustine parish resident, marrying Rachael Collier, a spinster of the same parish, on 30 May 1768. The first known fact about Anthony's career
145-782: A memorial to William Shield in Swalwell, Gateshead. It is close to the place where he was born, now a garage carrying out MOTs. In addition there is a room named the William Shield Room at the Gateshead Dryden Centre, home of the Gateshead Schools Music Service. The Gateshead Youth Orchestra regularly performs music by Shield, including the overtures to Rosina and The Travellers in Switzerland . The most recent revival of
174-542: A memorial to mark the grave of his friend William Shield in Westminster Abbey . Dr Ireland, Dean of the Abbey, is said to have refused permission for the tablet to be installed as he took objection to the word "gentleman" being used in its text. Fuller subsequently had the tablet installed at his home church, St Thomas à Becket, Brightling , Sussex where it remains. A medallion portrait of William Shield in profile
203-581: A short walking distance (in fact just across the road) from his working place: the Theatre Royal at Covent Garden. He is known to have played in the oratorio concert at the King's Theatre on 24 February 1792. In October 1792 the pasticcio afterpiece Harlequin Chaplet with "music selected [by Shaw] from Pepusch , Dr Arne , Arnold , Fischer, Michael Arne , Vincent, Dibdin , Reeve, and Shield "
232-521: A theatre orchestra. In 1772, he was appointed by Felice Giardini to play violin in the opera at Covent Garden (now the Royal Opera House ), and from 1773 he was principal violist there. In 1778 he provided the music for the comic opera The Flitch of Bacon to a libretto by Henry Bate . On 21 February 1776 he was in Durham, where he attended the meeting of the city's masonic lodge at
261-569: A year (about £1075 in today's money ). Two months after her husband's passing, she was granted an additional monthly income of about £2 (about £179 in today's money ) by the Royal Society of Musicians. William Shield William Shield (5 March 1748 – 25 January 1829) was an English composer, violinist and violist . His music earned the respect of Haydn and Beethoven . Shield was born in Swalwell near Gateshead , County Durham,
290-490: Is accompanied by this inscription: Sacred to the memory of / WILLIAM SHIELD esquire / master of His Majesty's band of music / who died January 25th 1829 / aged 80 years / and is buried in Westminster Abbey / This gentleman's name[,] independent / of his high character and virtues / in private life[,] has a claim to be enroll'd / amongst the most eminent musical / composers that have hitherto prov'd / an ornament to
319-579: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Anthony Shaw (violinist) Anthony Shaw was born in 1747, probably in Bath , and died aged 45 on 26 August 1792 in Margate . He was a violinist and was the band leader at the Covent Garden Theatre until his death. Anthony Shaw was the son of Bathonian musician Thomas Shaw (1715-92) and
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#1732780780087348-498: Is known of her. Shield is buried in the same grave as Johann Peter Salomon in the floor of the south cloisters of Westminster Abbey . Surprisingly, it seems no marker of any kind was put in place at the time to show where he lay. There was quite a search made near the centenary of his death and eventually a small marble tablet was put as near the grave as could be ascertained. John 'Mad Jack' Fuller commissioned sculptor Peter Rouw (1771–1852), of Portland Lane, London, to create
377-493: Is not yet clear, but can only have been occasional, given his career in London. Shield also worked as a composer for Covent Garden and, in that capacity, he met Joseph Haydn . In 1817, he was appointed Master of the King's Musick . Like Haydn and Beethoven, not to mention several other composers of his time, Shield was a great plunderer of folk tunes (in his case mostly from his native Northumbria ). Shield's compositions include
406-556: Is that he played first violin at the Commemoration of Handel ( Handel Memorial Concerts at Westminster Abbey and the Pantheon from 26 May to 5 June 1784) for which a total of 493 performers were gathered together. By this time, however, he must have already been well established as a musician as he became a member of The Royal Society of Musicians about 7 years earlier in 1776 or 1777. By 1788, he had joined and become
435-644: The Marquis of Granby tavern. The lodge Minutes indicate that he was by this date already a member of the St. John's lodge in Newcastle. He later also became a member of the Sunderland Phoenix lodge No.94 and The Sea Captain's Lodge (later to become Palatine Lodge No.97 ), where he was admitted as a joining member on 14 June 1792. Details of the frequency of Shield's attendance at these north-east lodges
464-512: The "Shield wrote Auld Lang Syne " story seems to date from 1998, when John Treherne, Gateshead's Head of Schools' Music Service, uncovered an original edition of the opera Rosina in the Gateshead Public Library, while he was looking for new works for the town's youth orchestra. "I thought it was appropriate to look at the work of a Gateshead-born composer. I picked out Rosina by Shield," Treherne said. "I started to copy out
493-657: The British nation / John Fuller of Rose Hill Esq, DDD . It is presumed that the words, "and is buried in Westminster Abbey" were inserted. DDD is an abbreviation for the Latin Dat, Dicat, Dedicat which can be translated to "Gives, Devotes and Dedicates". A memorial cross was erected to honour Shield in 1891 at Whickham Church, his native parish. Near it is the oldest Shield grave. "Here lieth Peter Shield and Mary his wife, mother and children. Dep this life April Ye 8th 1747." In December 2009, Gateshead Council erected
522-519: The composer of the setting, not the underlying tune. This book was compiled around 1700, it has remained in the possession of the same family since its compilation, and it is now held by the National Library of Scotland . As variation sets are generally composed on recognisable tunes, this is very probably older still. A later appearance of this old tune, was published by William McGibbon , who died in 1756. While both of these settings are on
551-474: The earlier tune, the opening bars are immediately recognisable. Probably the first printed appearances of the modern tune are first, Shield's use of it in Rosina . In the final allegro, what is essentially the modern form of the tune appears on the oboe; as this section contains Scotch snap rhythms, with a drone accompaniment on bassoon 'in imitation of bagpipes', it may well be that the use of this melody by Shield
580-475: The early 1790s, Anthony became the orchestra's superintendent at the Theatre Royal of Margate. The latter had only just been built three years earlier in 1787 on one of the town's most fashionable squares. In the late 1780s-early 1790s, Anthony had received an eighth interest in the Margate theatre. (Upon his death, this share in the Theatre Royal of Margate will go to his brother, the composer Thomas Shaw .) At
609-585: The form of a complete score. Rosina has a number of features associated with later English comic opera , and even modern musical comedy – including the use of English, spoken dialogue, lightness of theme, and the use of folk and popular medodies. At least to that degree, it may be regarded as one of the ancestors of the musical, and Shield as one of the first composers of musicals. William Shield died on Sunday 25 January 1829 (the date celebrated as Robbie Burns Day) at his house at 31 Berners Street , London. His will (dated 29 June 1826) left his worldly goods and
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#1732780780087638-572: The leader of the band at Covent Garden , whilst his brother, Thomas Shaw, held the same post at the rival Drury Lane theatre . Anthony Shaw was in charge of selecting the music of the instrumental interludes inserted in William Shield 's and John O'Keeffe 's pasticcio afterpiece Aladin, or the Wonderful Lamp which premiered on 26 December 1788 at Covent Garden. In November 1790, Anthony lived at 10 Bow Street in London, at
667-406: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Shaw&oldid=1220738239 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
696-556: The score and hummed the tune as I was writing it down. I was coming to the end when I realised the tune floating through my head was Auld Lang Syne." Ballad operas generally quoted well known tunes, and in this case the tune is certainly much older. A fine and elaborate setting of an older tune with this name "For Old Lang Syne, by Mr. Beck", with variation appears in the Balcarres Lute Book, from Scotland. Here attributions such as "By Mr. Beck" are generally used to indicate
725-528: The son of William Shield and his wife, Mary, née Cash. He was first taught music by his father but, after both he and his mother died while Shield was still a child, he was apprenticed to a shipbuilder in South Shields , continuing however to study music with Charles Avison in Newcastle upon Tyne . He became a noted violinist in Newcastle's subscription concerts before moving to Scarborough to lead
754-519: The time of his passing in 1792 Anthony was still the band leader at Coven Garden during the season, but would also work at Margate during the summers. The Manchester Chronicle reports that Anthony Shaw died on 26 August 1792 in Margate and was buried there at St. John's on 29 August 1792. On Friday 31 August 1792, the Kentish Gazette thus reported his death: His passing left his widow Rachael in dire straights with an annual income of £14
783-555: Was produced at Covent Garden. Although there is no details about who this "Shaw" was, it is plausible that Anthony could have put the piece together and that it was produced after his death. It is less likely that his brother Thomas was involved as he was then officially employed by the Drury Lane theatre, Covent Garden's direct competitor.) During the Georgian era, the town of Margate (also known by its parish name "St. John's")
812-546: Was the older brother of the composer Thomas Shaw. There is virtually no information about Anthony Shaw's early life and his career prior to going to London. Through elements of his brother's biography, we know that he was the son of a musician born in 1715 called Thomas Shaw who was a double-bass player active in Bath and London for many years as a leading string player and concert director, including in music festivals in Westminster and at Covent Garden, and who had become
841-414: Was transformed from a small fishing village into one of the first sea-side resorts. The Kentish Gazette of 31 August 1792 thus comments the sea bathing season: The "Margate hoys", though not without risks, provided cheap and ready access from London. These were the early days of sea bathing, and, among other things, visitors could rely on hotels, assembly rooms, and a theatre for their entertainment. In
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