John Danby

Life

Born: 1757

Died: 16 May 1798

Biography Organist at the chapel of the Spanish Embassy in London, and pupil of Samuel Webbe (Snr.), a fellow Roman Catholic who similarly held an embassy appointment (Sardinian embassy), and who also put much of his creative energy into the composition of glees.

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List of choral works

A thought on death Apollo, high our souls inspire As onward we jog Awake, Aeolian lyre Begin the song Come Delia, pride of rural swains Come, pretty bird Come, ye party jangling swains Fair Flora decks the flowery ground Fairest daughter of the year Fare thee well, thou native vale Flow on, silver stream Gentle swains, unseal your eyes Goddess of the tuneful lyre

Happy is the shepherd's life Hark, hark, hark! Waked from according lyres Let gaiety sparkle Little warbler, who dost bring mirth Music has power The Nightingale Now the woodland chorists sing O friendship, thou balm O once I took pleasure to stray O salutaris hostia Obscure, unprized and dark Queen of joy and dimpled pleasure Sacred pow'r of love and wine Shepherds, I have lost my love

Soft o'er the mountain's purple brow Such radiant eyes Sweet muse, who lov'st the virgin spring There's a difference between a beggar and a queen Thy breath, as fragrant as her own confessed To Cynthia Turn, O turn thee, gentle maid Welcome, every nymph and swain When Sappho tuned the raptured strain Ye nymphs and sylvan swains Ye shepherds and nymphs of the grove Zeno, Plato, Aristotle

 
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Publications

• Danby's First Book of Catches, Canons and Glees, 3-5vv, (London, 1785)
• Danby's Second Book of Catches, Canons and Glees, 3-5vv, (London, 1789)
• Danby's Third Book of Catches, Canons and Glees, 3-5vv, (London, 1796)
• Danby's Posthumous Glees, 3-5vv, (London and Bath, 1798)