John Marsh

At age fourteen Marsh studied the violin with Wafer who was simply an organist at Gosport. His family members unfortunately moved soon thereafter and he had not been able to officially continue his research. In 1774, when he resolved in Salisbury, Marsh became a member of the provincial orchestra and became its leading violinist. At exactly the same time he started to educate himself how exactly to play the body organ. Marsh started composing anthems and sometimes substituted for the organist at Canterbury. In 1787, when he visited Chichester, he became a innovator among the novice musicians there. That’s where Marsh spent the rest of his existence. While in Chichester he made up a bounty of music including chamber functions, body organ fugues and voluntaries, anthems, psalms and secular tracks. Like a musicographer he obviously distinguished between your varieties of the past due Baroque and early Classical functions in “Assessment.” Though he individually did not look after the “two camp” mentality he integrated both designs in his personal compositions. Marsh made up more than 28 overtures and symphonies, and twelve concerto grossi. Although an novice, Marsh’s compositions demonstrate an intensive understnding of musical idioms and methods. His music was chracteristically unassuming since it was created for orchestral shows in the provinces. He was versed in thoroughbass, instrumentation and word-setting. The key pad compositions, specially the voluntaries, had been one of the better works created during this time period.