Matthew Camidge

Matthew Camidge was a well-known regional musician in North England, well-known for his body organ playing and performing oratorios. His compositions are solid in workmanship though quite traditional. His parents had been John and Elizabeth Camidge. John have been organist at York Minster since 1756, and offered Matthew, the 6th child, his early musical teaching. His father after that delivered him to London to be always a chorister in the Chapel Royal, whose music grasp, Nares, have been his very own teacher. Matthew came back to York and offered as his father’s helper. When his dad retired in 1799, Matthew got over his placement at York Minster. Matthew wedded Mary Shaw of York in 1789. That they had three sons. One, John, been successful Matthew by himself retirement, and offered the post to his very own son. Matthew’s various other sons took purchases, and one of these became cannon of York Minster. Matthew Camidge was a musical head in your community. He was known for his excellent body organ improvisations. He arranged huge music celebrations provided at York in 1823, 1825, and afterwards. Being a violinist, he led the orchestra from the York Musical Culture. He added 30 exceptional hymn music for William Richardson’s Assortment of Psalms, which in afterwards editions became well known as The York Psalm and Hymn Reserve. Chances are that Camidge released the practice of psalm chanting to St. Michael-le-Belfrey, his various other church work, which he attained in 1801. His sonatas, for piano with associated violin and cello, have become pleasant functions, and representative of the better British music of that time period, though not first. He frankly recognized, in the preface to his group of body organ concertos released in 1817, that he was composing them in the “such a long time admired” design of Handel and Corelli.