Robert Woodcock (1690-1728) - Concerto ex De a.5 (1727)

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Composer: Robert Woodcock (1690-1728)
Work: Concerto ex De | a.5. | Hautbois Concerto | Violino Primo | Violino Secundo | Viola | et | Cembalo [previously attributed to Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) and Jacques Loeillet (1685-1748)]
Performers: Les Solistes de Liege; Géry Lemaire (1926-2013, conductor)

Painting: Robert Woodcock (1690-1728) - Stopping in a Calm
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Engraving: Johannes Kip (1653-1722) - Beaufort House, Chelsea
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Robert Woodcock
(Chelsea, London, bap. 9 October 1690 - Chelsea, 10 April 1728)

English painter, composer and woodwind player. Son of Robert Woodcock (1642-1710) and Deborah Littleton, he grew up in Shrewsbury House, Chelsea, London, where his parents ran a girls school. In 1714, he married Ayliffe Stoaks, by whom he had several children. According to a contemporaneous biographical account, he worked as a civil servant, holding a 'place or clerkship in the Government.' He resigned his government post around 1723 to devote himself to marine painting, and that he was ‘very skillful in music, had judgement and performed on the hautboy in a masterly manner’. John Hawkins called Woodcock ‘a famous performer on the flute’, but he was more likely an enthusiastic amateur on the oboe, recorder and flute. As a composer, his only surviving compositions are a set of XII Concertos in Eight Parts (1727). They are of historical importance as the first flute concertos ever published and the first oboe concertos published by an English composer.