John Eccles (Composer)
Born: 1668, London, UK
Died: 12th January 1735, Richmond, London, UK
Nationality: English
John Eccles was an English composer.
Born in London, eldest son of professional musician Solomon Eccles, John Eccles was appointed to the King's Private Music in 1694, and in 1700 became Master of the King's Musick. Also in 1700 he finished second in a competition to write music for William Congreve's masque The Judgement of Paris (John Weldon won).
Eccles was very active as a composer for the theatre, and from the 1690s wrote a large amount of incidental music including music for Congreve's Love for Love, John Dryden's The Spanish Friar and William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Jointly with Henry Purcell he wrote incidental music for Thomas d'Urfey's Don Quixote.
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- A Division on a Ground (1)
- Acis and Galatea (1)
- As Cupid roguishly one day (1)
- Belinda (1)
- Can life be a blessing (1)
- Cease of Cupid to complain (2)
- Corinna now you'r young and gay (1)
- E'er since you came into my Sight (1)
- Europe revells in ye Peace: Symphony (2)
- Ground in F major (1)
- Haste, give me wings (1)
- I burn my brain consumes to ashes (5)
- I burn, I burn (1)
- I'll hurry thee hence (1)
- If I hear Orinda swear (1)
- Let all be gay (2)
- Love is an empty, airy name (1)
- Love Kindl'd in a breast too young (1)
- Love's but the frailty of the mind (2)
- Must then a faithful lover go? (2)
- My Lover has an inconstant Mind (1)
- O the mighty pow'r of love (1)
- Oh! Take him gently from the pile (3)
- Restless in thought (4)
- See the forsaken fair with streaming eyes (1)
- Semele (1)
- Sleep, Poor Youth (from The Comical History of Don Quixote) (1)
- Sonata (2)
- Stay, Ah turn (1)
- Suite ‘made for the Queen’s Coronation’ (1)
- Suite from The Mad Lover' (1)
- Symphony for Mercury from The Judgment of Paris (1)
- The Judgment of Paris (1)
- The Judgment of Paris: excerpts (2)
- The Mad Lover (2)
- Three Mad Songs (1)
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