Richard Mudge

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Richard Mudge (born December 26, 1718 in Bideford ( Devon ), † April 4, 1763 in Bedworth ) was an English pastor and composer .

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Richard Mudge, was a son of the Reverend Zachariah Mudge, director of Bideford Grammar School . Richard Mudge studied theology at Oxford University . During this time he also deepened his musical skills. Richard Goodson (around 1688–1741) was professor of music at the university during Mudge's student days . Even William Hayes , the successor Goodsons, was organist and choirmaster in the city, but it can be as yet no direct connection Mudge prove to him.

In 1741 Mudge was pastor of the villages of Great Packington and Little Packington, near Birmingham , and he was private chaplain to Lord Guernsey Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford , in whose residence Packington Hall he lived. From 1745 to 1757 Mudge was rector in Little Packington and from 1750 rector of St. Bartholomew and St. Martin in Birmingham. From 1756 Lord Guernsey enabled him to live independently in Bedworth , where Mudge lived until his death.

Works

In 1749 a collection of six concertos ( Six Concertos in Seven Parts ) for strings from Mudge's pen was published in London . Five works in this collection are set for two solo violins and string orchestra. The first concert also includes a trumpet. It is in the form of a French overture with a final minuet. The string concerts are all held in the sequence slow-fast-slow-fast. The influence of Handel and Francesco Geminiani can be seen in all works . The collection also contained an eight-part "Non Nobis Domine".

It was not until the 1990s that two portfolios containing additional manuscripts of Richard Mudge's music were rediscovered.

Gerald Finzi was preparing a modern edition of the Concerti (1, 4 and 6) as early as 1950. A facsimile edition of all concerts was published in 1993 by King's Music.

Discography

The first recording of a work by Mudge took place in 1957, with the Concerto with Trumpet, interpreted by Maurice André , from the above-mentioned Six Concertos in Seven Parts . A complete recording of this collection was made in 2008 by Capriccio Basel, Barockorchester under Dominik Kiefer.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Platt: New light on Richard Mudge, 1718–63 . In: Early Music , Vol. 28, Music in Georgian Britain (November, 2000), pp. 531-545. JSTOR 3518994
  2. ^ Mudge's résumé on Musicweb-International
  3. ↑ Richard Platt: Mudge, Richard in Grove Music Online
personal data
SURNAME Mudge, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English composer of the early classical period
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1718
PLACE OF BIRTH Bideford
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1763
Place of death Bedworth