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Dr. John Blow (1648-1708) Author(S): F Dr. John Blow (1648-1708) Author(s): F. G. E. Source: The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, Vol. 43, No. 708 (Feb. 1, 1902), pp. 81-88 Published by: Musical Times Publications Ltd. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3369577 Accessed: 05-12-2015 16:35 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/ info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Musical Times Publications Ltd. is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 137.189.170.231 on Sat, 05 Dec 2015 16:35:56 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions THE MUSICAL TIMES.-FEBRUARY I, 1902. 81 THE MUSICAL composerof some fineanthems and known to TIMES everybodyas the authorof the ' Grand chant,'- AND SINGING-CLASS CIRCULAR. and William Turner. These three boys FEBRUARY I, 1902. collaboratedin the productionof an anthem, therebycalled the Club Anthem,a settingof the words ' I will always give thanks,'each young gentlemanbeing responsible for one of its three DR. JOHN BLOW movements. The origin of this anthem is variouslystated; but the juvenile joint pro- (1648-I7O8). duction doubtless owed its inception to the Two more-or-lessimportant events in the friendshipwhich existed between this distin- life of this old English worthyhave given his guishedtrio of boys. Pelham Humphreyis said biographerssome trouble-(I) the place of his to have composed the firstmovement, Willie birth,(2) the source of his degreeof Doctorof Turnerthe bass solo,and JohnnieBlow the last chorus. Music. The' earlierwriters, with the exception While still a choristerat the Chapel of Anthony Wood, give North Collingham,a Royal, Blow also set to music Herrick's'Goe, village in Nottinghamshire,as the place where perjur'dman,' in imitationof Carissimi's ' Dite o John Blow drew his firstbreath; but as no cieli,' the resultof a challengemade to Master entry of his baptism is to be found in the Blow by Charles II. to produce somethingas registersof that parish,such informationmight good as thatby the Italian master. reasonably be considered doubtful. Recent Pepys-the ever-voluble--furnishes a side- research,on thepart of Mr. Thomas M. Blagg,of light on Blow as a chorister,that is assuming Newark,in the registersof that town,proves his spelling of a certain name is not above that a JohnBlow was baptized in the Parish reproach. The gossipingdiarist records, under Church, Newark, on February 23, I649. In date of August 21, 1677, the following:- 1646, one Henry Blow marrieda Katherine This morningcome two of Captain Cooke's boys,whose Langworth,and she was a widow: they had voices are broke, and are gone fromthe Chapel, but have three children,Henry, born in 1647; John extraordinaryskill; and they and my boy, with his (above mentioned),and Katherine. As Newark broken voice, did sing three parts; their names were is withinsix miles of North Collingham,the Blaew and Loggins; but notwithstandingtheir skill, yet latterplace have been afterall to hear them sing with their broken voices, which they may probably could not commandto keep in tune, would make a man the birthplace of Dr. Blow. Perhaps his mad-so bad it was. parentswere temporarily residing there, and may there not have been some sentimentalreason The Masterof the Childrenat the Restoration forthe baptismsof those Blow infantsto have and after,was CaptainHenry Cooke, a musician takenplace at Newark? This is the who had obtainedhis commissionfor services as question: a soldierin the Is the John Blow in the Newark baptismal Royalistarmy. He had been a registersour Blow ? The case, as so choristerin the Chapel Royal in the reign of John fullyCharles and became and ably statedby Mr. Blagg in the Athenum I., subsequently ' Composer of December and to which we referredof the King's Privatemusick for Voices.' Cooke 7, 1901, was in our last issue is, we must confess, doubtless one of the teachersin music of (p. 30) ' his otherinstructors in strong. On the otherhand, Anthony Wood JohnBlow; the art are in his notes statedto have been John Hingston,one of the (1632-1695), biographical preserved musiciansof Charles andafterwards in the Bodleian Library, states that Blow I., organistto was born in London, but on the verbal Oliver Cromwell,and Dr. ChristopherGibbons. only The event in the life of our informationof Dr. Benjamin Rogers. There- great composer fore,in the of the Newark occurredin the year 1669, when he became light discovery, of at the and until other evidence be forthcoming,organist WestminsterAbbey, age of North be as the twenty-one! He succeeded Albertus Bryne, Collingham may regarded whois describedas thatfamous birthplaceof Dr. John Blow, and the year ' velvet-fingered 1648 as that of his intothe world. organist.' Pluralitiesabounded in those days, entry as the extractsfrom the ' Old Nothingis knownof his parentageor ancestry, following Cheque and the firstdefinite that we have Book of the Chapel Royal' bear testimony,in knowledge the case of the of of Master John Blow is that he was one of young organist Westminster the Childrenof the Chapel Royal upon the Abbey:- re-establishmentof that sanctuary at the I67a Mr. Roger Hill, Clearke, one of the Gent of his Restoration,in 166o. He must have begun Majties Chappell, departed this life the 2 day of his composingachievements in his boyhood,and March 1673, in whos place was sworne Mr. John during his choristership,as Clifford's' Divine Blow the i6th day of March. Services and Anthems'-dated 1663, when 1674 Mr. Pelham Humfrey, one of the Gent of his Blow was only fifteen--containsthree anthems Majties Chappell Royall and Master of the children, by him: departed this life at Windsor the i4th day of 'I willmagnifie,' ' Lord, Thou hastbeen July 1674, in whose place as Master of the children our refuge,'and 'Lord, rebukeme not.' Among came Mr. John Blow, and as Gent of the Chappell his fellowchoristers at the Chapel Royal were was sworne Mr. William Powell, a tennorfrom Pelham Humphrey-a pupil of Lully's, the Salesbury, the 21 of July 1674. This content downloaded from 137.189.170.231 on Sat, 05 Dec 2015 16:35:56 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 82 THE MUSICAL TIMES.-FEBRUARY I, 19o2. In the same year (1674), Blow took unto appointment is not recorded. One thing, himself a wife in the person of Elizabeth however, seems certain: that Purcell became Braddock, a daughter of Edward Braddock, a organist of the Abbey in 168o, and that he held Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and clerk of the post till his death in 1695. During those the Cheque to that establishment,and also a fifteenyears, Blow had more leisure to attend member of the choir of Westminster Abbey. to his Chapel Royal and other duties. What The nuptial ceremonytook place in St. Paul's, happened at Purcell's death in regard to the Covent Garden-in the same church wherein Abbey appointmentwill be told in due course. John Goss was marriedsome 150 years later-on It may be convenientat this point to mention September 30, 1674.* The Marriage Licence, that there is no evidence of Dr. Blow's ever issued from the Registry of the Vicar-General having held the organistship of St. Margaret's of Canterbury,was in these terms:- Church, Westminster,as some biographershave BLOW JOHN of St. Margaret, Westminstergent. stated. As an organist he was held in the bachelor, about 26, and ELIZABETH BRADOCKEof highestrepute. With Purcell, he took part in the same, spinster,about 20 ; consentof father,Edward memorable ' battle of the organs,' at the Temple Bradocke gent. at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, St. Church,when Father Smith and Renatus Harris Margaret Westminsteror St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 23 Sep. 1674. contested for the honour of providing that with an Blow Two while still the sanctuary organ-Smith engaged years later, holding and Purcell, then both in their prime, to play, appointmentsof Organist of WestminsterAbbey, and Harris to and Master of the Children of the employed Draghi, organist Queen Chapel Catherine, to ' touch ' his instrument- but he became of the latter Royal, organist place Smith, who doubtless owed not a little to the in succession to Dr. Gibbons. Christopher skill of Purcell and Blow, came offvictorious. Where did Blow obtain his degree of Doctor In no less esteem was Blow held as a of Music? This has baffled all John question great composer. In 1681 he composed the New at a answer. a attempts satisfactory Anthony Year's Ode for the Court, ' Great Sir, Wood-and he has been beginning copied by many others, ye of all our hearts,' and in the year it was an conferred joy 1684, -says honorarydegree upon of the Temple contest, he set Blow the of the organ John by Archbishop Canterbury, Oldham's Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, the second celebrated Sancroft. The University of Oxford celebration of its kind. It seems that he has also been but the named, unfortunately published the latter work beforeits performance, names ofmusicians thus honouredwere frequently influencedthereto the success omitted being probably by fromthe list of graduates. The follow- which had attended the issue of Purcell's Ode, from the of music ing entry catalogue composed in the It may be in the have preceding year.
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