[Sheet music] Henry Burgess Jr. (c.1718-1785) - Concerto I (1743)

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Composer: Henry Burgess Jr. (c.1718-1785)
Work: Concerto I (1743)
Software: Sibelius + Instruments samples
World Premiere: Yes
Sheet music (pdf): https://ks4.imslp.net/files/imglnks/usimg/e/e9/IMSLP635531-PMLP1019434-Digital_Store_g.251._Six_Concertos-_for_the_Organ_and_Harpsicord-_kbd.pdf
Sheet music (xml): http://www.mediafire.com/file/u8wp8br320z43fk/BURGESS-ConcertoI.xml/file
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Henry Burgess Jr. (fl. 1738-1765)

English organist and composer. Son of Henry Burgess (?-1765), his early life and formation is unknown. He was recognized as a composer by 26 January 1738 when two of his songs were sung at Drury Lane. A year later, on 17 and 19 January 1739 at the same playhouse, he performed a new concerto of his own composition, and the Drury Lane bills for 3, 5, and 22 May list performances of his music, perhaps again played by him. On 28 August he became one of the original subscribers, along with his musical father, to the Royal Society of Musicians. In the summer of 1741, Henry played an organ concerto of his own composition at Cuper's Gardens, and the bills in May and June gave him a puff: "it may be said without ostentation that he is of as promising a genius and as neat a performer as any of the age". In 1744 he apparently performed on the harpsichord again at Drury Lane, and when Mortimer's London Directory came out in 1763 he was still listed as an active London musician, then living in Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. When his father died in 1765 he left Henry all his music, printed or in manuscript. We learn from the elder Burgess's will that the younger Henry had a brother Thomas and a sister Isabella; his mother was Mary Burgess, daugther of Thomas Wamsley. #ClassicalMusic