Harry Ellis WOOLDRIDGE

1845 (age 72)

Oxford History of Music

His music collections included transcripts of 17thand 18th-century Italian music He enrolled at the Royal Academy in 1865, becoming interested in early music at about the same time. Wooldridge was retained by Powell"s and designed stained glass and tile paintings for more than twenty years. His church commissions included a reredos for Street Martin"s Church in Brighton (described as his chef d"œuvre), and the painting of frescoes in Street John-at-Hampstead. His growing authority on early music led to his 1895 appointment, succeeding John Ruskin as Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford. His main contributions to music literature are a new edition of William Chappell"s Popular Music of the Olden Time, which appeared under the title Old English Popular Music (1893) and The Polyphonic Period, parts I. and World War II (vols i and ii of the Oxford History of Music, 1901-1905). The Hymnal is regarded as "influential in the contemporary reform of hymnody and the revival of sixteenth and seventeenth century music".

Harry Ellis WOOLDRIDGE

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Professor of Fine Art

Background

WOOLDRIDGE, Harry Ellis was born in 1845.

Education

Privately. Student of the Royal Academy 1865, and about the same time commenced the study of music, chiefly antiquarian. Master of Arts.

Career

His music collections included transcripts of 17thand 18th-century Italian music He enrolled at the Royal Academy in 1865, becoming interested in early music at about the same time. Wooldridge was retained by Powell"s and designed stained glass and tile paintings for more than twenty years.

His church commissions included a reredos for Street Martin"s Church in Brighton (described as his chef d"œuvre), and the painting of frescoes in Street John-at-Hampstead.

His growing authority on early music led to his 1895 appointment, succeeding John Ruskin as Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford. His main contributions to music literature are a new edition of William Chappell"s Popular Music of the Olden Time, which appeared under the title Old English Popular Music (1893) and The Polyphonic Period, parts I. and World War II (vols i and ii of the Oxford History of Music, 1901-1905).

The Hymnal is regarded as "influential in the contemporary reform of hymnody and the revival of sixteenth and seventeenth century music".

Membership

Club: Savile.

Connections

Friend:: Robert Seymour

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