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Avison, Charles
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Biography and portrait with link to the hymn tune "Avison" from the CyberHymnal.
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Avison is best known as a composer and writer about music. Though little is known of his early life, he did travel to Italy as a young man, and studied for a while under Germiniani. In 1735, he became organist...Detailed biography, illustrations, and discography from 18th Century English Music.
http://www.rslade.btinternet.co.uk/avison/index.html
Quote from Robert Browning and local ties from the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne. Includes links and suggested reading.
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Charles Avison Some men of note associated with the Newcastle Lit Phil Charles Avison, 1709-1770 Musician, organist at St. Nicholas, Newcastle. The Society holds an important collection of his music and writings. One of the subjects in Robert Browning's Parleyings with certain...Biography attempting to expose more people to his music focuses on his compositions and time in Newcastle. From the Academy of Saint Cecelia.
http://www.academyofsaintcecilia.com/avisonASC.htm
Biography noting his musicianship, compositional style, and critical writings from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa...a/learning/grove.html?record=561
Biography noting his compositions, teaching, and music criticism from the Here Of A Sunday Morning radio program. Includes related material and contemporaries.
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HOASM: Charles Avison English composer and writer on music. Little is known of his early years or education, though Burney states (History, 2) that he traveled to Italy as a youth and later was a pupil of Geminiani. In 1735 he was made...Detailed biography, illustrations, and discography from 18th Century English Music.
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He was the fifth of nine children of Richard and Anne Avison who lived in the house beside St. Bartholomew's Nunnery in Nolt Market, Newcastle. They were both were musicians and were presumably Avison's first music teachers. Richard was a...