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SIR JOSEPH BARNBY. Borx 1338. =2 IR JOSEPIH BARNDY, whose oVl services to music have recently been rewarded by the honour of knighthood, was born at York, and was chorister o York Minster from eight years of age to fourteen. At sixteen he became a student at the Royal Academy of Music, where he continued to study for three years. At twenty-five he was

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appointed organist at St. Andrew’s, Well Street, which post he held for cight years, when he was clected organist at St Anne's, continued

Soho, where he until 1886.

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During most of this time he was acting as conductor of oratorio concerts, and succeeded Gounod as conductor of the Royal Albert Hall Choral Socicety in 1872, In 1875 he was appomted Precentor and Dircctor of Musical Instruction at Iton College. He was the conductor of most of the Royal and State functions, such as the

receptions of the Shah i 1873 and 1889,

and of the Czar in 1874. Sir Joscph Barnby’s own compositions are very numer- ous, including the Oratorio of “ Rebekah,” produced in 1870, Cantata on Psalm xevii, at the Leeds IFestival in 1883, and a very large number of services, anthems, and hymns.

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