The Life and Works of Robert Woodcock
~: ',; I" I -'~ S -- .a '/~~*~~~-u~ y ", :i~i'. ~__ ct~. ~s~'~ The Life and Works of ~ Robert Woodcock, 1 1690-1728 David Lasoc~i and Helen Neate ~ ... ~ !If ~• ...•'\~0 ,<'}Cfj~'l ,,~" , .. ~ " f-i..,rr.. f· ;-J '" .. .",f}/';,[:'.::t lr{/ii8ilfl!; controversial since 1954, when Brian made public Carl Dolmetsch's suggestion Priestman alleged that at least two of them that "Robert Woodcock was not the musi, were probably written by one of the Loeil, cian alluded to by both Burney and Haw, lets (on stylistic grounds, he attributed kins, but Robert Woodcock the celebrated them to Jacques) and stolen by Woodcock. marine painter ... [who} was a noted ama' Because music scholars have known little teur musician."5 MacMillan apparently re, about Woodcock, 4 it has been difficult to jected this notion, going on to argue on come to firm conclusions about his role in musical grounds that the composer of the the composition and publication of these concertos was "the recorder player Robert Woodcock" rather than "Woodcock the "'\~ .. (~" ~ ('~J~ \JY'\ -. \""' 7' ~\.Y'\' The purposes of our article are: first, to demonstrate that there was only one Rob, ert Woodcock, a marine painter, amateur woodwind player, and composer; second, to present new biographical information about him; and finally, to discuss the con' certos in the light of this information as well as musical evidence, concluding that the sole Robert Woodcock probably did compose the concertos published under his name. Woodcoc~'s life The life of Robert Woodcock the marine painter is described in two brief accounts by the engraver George Vertue (1684 1756) among the forty volumes of notes he ltm~ made between 1713 and 1731 for a pro' jected general history of art in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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