Raynor Taylor

Raynor Taylor (* 1747 in London , † August 17, 1825 in Philadelphia ) was an English composer, organist and music teacher.

Taylor attended King's Singing School and was a member of the Chapel Royal choir , with whom he performed at Handel's funeral in 1759 . He later became an organist in Chelmsford, where he also worked as a music teacher from 1765 to 1792. He also worked as a composer, singer and musical director in Marylebone Gardens and at Sadler's Wells Theater . His Burletta Buxom Joan premiered at the Haymarket Theater in 1778 .

In 1792 he emigrated to the USA. There he lived in Philadelphia from 1793, where he was organist at St. Peter's Church from 1793 to 1813 . At the opening of the Philadelphia Vauxhall Gerdens in 1814, he performed his own organ concert. He has composed plays and operas including The Iron-Chest and The Shipwreck'd Mariner Preserved for the Chestnut Street Theater . Together with its director, his former student Alexander Reinagle , he composed Monody - on the occasion of the death of George Washington in 1799 - and Pizarro . In 1797 he published a piano school with Benjamin Carr . In 1820 he was one of the founders of the Musical Fund Society . Taylor is considered one of the first major composers in the USA.

Works

• Buxom Joan , 1778
• Capocchio and Dorinna , 1793
• Old Woman of Eighty Three , 1793
• The Wounded Soldier , 1794
• Amyntor: a pastoral song , 1795
• The Lass of the Cot , 1795
• The Merry Piping Lad: a ballad in the Scots taste , 1795
• Nancy of the Vale: a pastoral ballad , 1795
• Vive la Liberté: a new song , 1795
• The Wand'ring Village Maid , 1795
• While the Morn is Inviting to Love: a favorite song , 1797, 1799
• Bonny Willy , 1798, 1804
• Ma Chere, et Mon Cher , 1798, 1804
• Monody , 1799
• Hark Hark the Joy Inspiring Horn , 1805, 1809
• The American Captives Emancipation , 1806
• Rustic Festivity , 1807, 1811
• None None The Beech Tree's Petition , 1810, 1815
• The Queen of Flowers: as sung at the Amateurs concert by Mr. Gillingham , 1812
• The Camel's Bell , 1813
• The ethiop; or, The Child of the Desert , 1814
• When Death's Gloomy Angel Was Bending His Bow , 1814
• The Iron Chest
• The Shipwreck'd Mariner

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• University of Pennsylvania - The Keffer Collection of Sheet Music - Philadelphia Composers: Raynor Taylor (1747-1825) - biography and works
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