Michael Wise (Composer)
Born: c. 1647, Wiltshire
Died: 24th August 1687, Salisbury
Nationality: English
Michael Wise was an English organist and composer. He sang as a child in the choir of the Chapel Royal and served as a countertenor in St George's Chapel, Windsor, from 1666 until, in 1668, he was appointed organist and choirmaster at Salisbury Cathedral. In 1676 he became a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and in the last year of his life was Master of the Children at St Paul's Cathedral.
He was killed during a confrontation with a Salisbury night watchman:
"He had quarrelled with his wife on some trivial matter, and rushed out of his house.
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- Awake, put on thy strength O Sion (1)
- Blessed is he that considereth the poor and needy (1)
- Have pity upon me (1)
- How are the mighty fallen (1)
- Jubilate Deo (Service in D minor) (1)
- Magnificat (1)
- Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in E flat (1)
- Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in F (1)
- Nunc dimittis (Service in E flat) (1)
- O praise God in his holiness (1)
- O ye my friends (1)
- Open me the gates of righteousness (1)
- Prepare ye the way of the Lord (2)
- Te Deum (1)
- The Lord is my shepherd (1)
- The ways of Zion do mourn (3)