Thomas Hamly Butler (1762-1823) - Sonata No.3 in E flat major

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Composer: Thomas Hamly Butler (1762-1823)
Work: Sonata No.3 in E flat major from 'Three Sonatas for the Piano Forte ... In this Set are introduced several favorite Airs'
1. Allegro maestoso 0:00
2. Rondo 8:14

Software: Sibelius
Instrument: Fortepiano (1796) by Joseph Dohnal (1759-1829)
World Premiere: Yes
Sheet music (pdf): https://ks15.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/b/b7/IMSLP468395-PMLP604232-Sonata_III.pdf
Sheet music (xml): https://www.mediafire.com/file/qgheyycs0d7xmmf/BUTLER-SonataNo3.xml/file

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Thomas Hamly Butler
(London, 5 November 1762 - Edinburgh, 1823)

English composer. He was probably the son of the Butler (John or James) who sang occasionally for Handel. As a boy he was in the Chapel Royal under Nares, and later studied for three years in Italy under Piccinni, with whom he travelled to Paris in 1776. In 1778 he became Covent Garden harpsichordist and composed two stage works to words by Cumberland (then being represented at Drury Lane as Sir Fretful Plagiary in Sheridan’s The Critic). Calypso (20 March 1779) was a long, all-sung masque, of which only the words survive; The Widow of Delphi (1 February 1780) was a dialogue opera of which only the music was printed. Neither was successful, and in 1782 Butler settled as a piano teacher in Edinburgh, where he composed a profusion of unambitious piano rondos and sonatas on ‘Scotch’ themes; a rondo on Lewie Gordon was popular. He also published a ‘Military Rondo’ for piano called The Landing of the brave 42d in Egypt, and A Select Collection of original Scottish Airs (1800) on the lines of George Thomson’s collections, with ‘symphonies and accompanyments for the flute, violin & piano forte’.