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Sir John Goss. 1800-1880 (Concluded) Author(S): F Sir John Goss. 1800-1880 (Concluded) Author(s): F. G. E. Source: The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, Vol. 42, No. 700 (Jun. 1, 1901), pp. 375-383 Published by: Musical Times Publications Ltd. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3368650 Accessed: 05-11-2015 01:21 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 Thu, 05 Nov 2015 01:21:39 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions THE MUSICAL TIMES. JUNEI, I90I. 375 deprecatoryabout this accomplishmentof hers, SIR JOHN GOSS. in which,however, she acquittedherself charm- I800-I880. ingly. Her favouritemusicianwas Mendelssohn, who had greatly pleased her in early days as a (Concludedfrom page 23 I .) man. She would have nothing to say, until BEFOREresuming this biographicalsketch, a quite late in life7to Wagner or Brahms, and slight error in its Erst instalment (p. 225), once dismissed them all in one of her abrupt kindly pointed out by Mr. John S. Bumpus, turns of conversation, " Quite incomprehen-must be rectified. The habitation of Mr. sible! " " I am bored with the Future StaffordSmith, with whom the Chapel Royal altogether,"she used to say, " and don't want Children lived in Goss's day, was located at to hear any more about it." She was not Broad Sanctuary,Westminster, and not at more partial to some of the old masters, and Adelphi Terrace. One of Sir John Goss's once closed a musical discussion by saying, daughtershas furnishedus with a curiousside- " Handel always tires me, and I won't pretend light on her father'sold master. She says: ' In he doesn't." She carried out her aversionto my childhoodStaSord Smith lived in Paradise the last, and forbadethat the Dead March in Row, and I rememberour servantsgoing to see Saul should be playedat her funeral.' him as he lay in his coffin,where he was attired In regardto prima donnas,she placed Grisi in full court dress, satin breeches,buckles, &c. on a higher level than all other operatic per- He it was who made all the boys learn the r3th formers. When that actress flung herself chapterof the Srst Epistle to the Corinthians, across the door in ' The Huguenots,' or which my father never mentioned without arrangedthe poison scene with the Duke in saying, " God bless him for it."' ' Lucrezia Borgia,' and when Viardot Garcia After his appointmentto the organistshipof rose to the height of her invective in the St. Paul's (on April 25, I838), the life of Sir ' Prophete,' the Queen's face blazed with John Goss was not crowdedwith incident. He approbation. She would turn in her box and did his work conscientiouslyand without fuss say, ' There ! not one of the others could do or self-advertisement,content with doing his that; no, not even Alboni! ' duty in that state of life into whichit hadpleased The love of humourwas a markedcharacter- God to call him. In I84I (the Prefaceis dated istic in our late Queen's nature, and, by those ' 30, Sloane Street, October of that year') he well qualifiedto judge,she possessedremarkable issued his well known collection of ' Chants, intuitivenessas a musicalcritic. As the writer Ancient and Modern,in score, with an accom- of the article observes:- paniment for the organ or pianoforte.' This ' She thoroughlyenjoyed a good farce, and publication of 257 chants contained some laughedheartily at the jokes. She delightedin practical ' prefatoryobservations on chanting.' Italian opera, and when she liked a piece, she steeped herself in every part of it, the melody A COMPOSEROF ANTHEMS. and the romance,and heard it over and over Goss is best known to posterity as the until she knew the music by heart. " Norma" composer of anthems, just as Handel is =vvasa great favourite; and in late years Calve regardedas the great oratorioist-if that word won her heart in " Carmen,"to which opera- may be allowed. Both musicians, however, music, plot, and evervthing the Queenbecame did not embarkupon the great work of their absolutelyde+Toted. And the pieces of Gilbert lives till a late period in their careers. In the and Sullivan were an endless delight to her; year I842, when he was forty-oneyears of age, she would even take a part in theseXvery drolly Goss contemplated composingan anthem to and prettily. No one could form a more words from each of the I 50 Psalms, but he sympathetic audience, whether in music or nevergot beyondthe ISrst a setting of ' Blessed drama,than the Queen. She gave her unbroken is the man.' This composition was received attentionto the performer,and followed what- with such coldness by the membersof his own ever was being done with an almost childish Cathedralchoir, and such unkindlycriticisms eagerness. If the tenor began to be in the were passed upon it, that Goss did not write least heavy, the Queen would be observed to anotheranthem for ten years. ' Blessed is the fidget, as though hardly restrainedfrom break- man' (the anthem above referredto) was not ing into song herself; and at the slightest publishedtill twenty yearsafter its composition, deviation from perfection of delivery her fan when it formedone of a ' Collectionof Anthems began to move. No part of her characterwas forcertain Seasons and Festivalsof the Church,' more singularly interesting than the way in edited by Sir FrederickOuseley. Four years which, in such matters as these, she pre- later (in I 846) Goss edited, in collaboration served a charm of juvenile freshness like an with James Turle, organist of Westminster atmospheresurrounding the complexmachinery Abbey, a collection of cathedral services and of her mind.' anthems in two volumes, some of which had Would it not be interesting to know which not then been printed.* parts Queen Victoria took so ' very drolly and prettily' in the Gilbert and Sullivan * For a complete list of these services and anthems, which appeared periodically, see 'The Organists and Composers of St. Paul's,' an comicalities? invaluable book on the subject, by Mr. John S. Bumpus, p. I62. This content downloaded from 137.189.170.231 on Thu, 05 Nov 2015 01:21:39 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 376 THE WIUSICAL TIMES. JUNEI, I90I. The reputation of John Goss as a master- on January 1, I857), Goss was sworn in composerof English churchmusic received its Composerto Her Majesty's Chapels Royal, in hall markin the two anthems he composedfor succession to VVrilliamKnyvett. No better the state funeralof the Duke of Wellington,in appointmentcould have been made. St. Paul's Cathedral,November I8, I852 the settings of ' If we believe that Jeslls died' and AN ORATORIO PERFORMANCE IN ST. PAUL S. the Dirge, beginning ' And the King said to A practically unknown,but importantevent a11the people.' The latter, accompaniedby in the quiet life of our composer has now to windinstruments (flutes, oboes, bassoons, horns, be recorded. In I 860 the organ screen in trumpets,cornets, trombones, ophicleide, drums, St. Paul s Cathedralwas removedand Father muffledside-drums, and organ),concluded with Smith s organ placed under the North-East the words (recitative),' And the King said unto arch of the chancel. At the same time the his servants,Know ye not that there is a Prince organ, originally in the Panopticon,Leicester and a Great Man, fall'n this day in Israel ?' Square,was acquiredby the Dean and Chapter which led on to the Dead March in ' Saul,' and erected over the South door. In connec- 4 during the perforlnancoof which the Body tion with the re-openingof the Cathedralafter was lowered,' as the score indicates. From the alterations,and in aid of the funds for the The Times report of that solemn functionwe purchase of the organ above referred to, a learn that there were ' two choirs in two lines,' performanceof ' The Messiah' on a festival one being conductedby James Turle, the other scale was given in the Cathedral and under by Mr. Francis.* There was no full rehearsal the dome, on Friday, Januarz,-25, IS6r. It was of the music, as the wind instrument the Srst time that an oratorio had been per- players were engaOedat a Sacred Harmonic formed in St. Paul's since its erection l y concert at Exeter Hall. As The Ti)nessaid, NVren,nearly two hundredyears before; and ' Their absencewas a serious drawback.' On so importantdid the event loom in the jour- that occasion the Precentorpresented himself nalistic horizon of Mr. J. W. Davison, the for admittanceto the cathedral,but the vergers critic-in-chiefof the day, that he devoted to it would not let him in, as his features were tc no less than three leading articles, in three them totally unknown. No wonderthat Sidney sllccessiveweeks, in the columnsof the Muszcal Smith called this Precentor,the Absentor! World. Here is the announcementof the performance:- PRAISE THE LORD, O MY SOUL ! ST. PAUL'SCATHEDRAL.-Opening of the magnificent Two years later Goss wrote one of his most New Organ, Friday morning, Jan. 2sth, I86I, the popular anthems for the Bi-centenaryFestival Bestival of the Conversion of St.
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