November 18 - Carl Maria von Weber; William Horsley (The Musical Birthday Series, 6th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for November 18th are here: Carl Maria von Weber; Henry Bishop; Amelita Galli-Curci (2019), Ignacy Jan Paderewski (2020), Carl Maria von Weber; Johnny Mercer (2021), William Schwenck Gilbert (2022), and Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch (2023).  A previous verse on Horsley appeared on November 15, 2022

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Carl Maria von Weber (18 or 19 November 1786 – 5 June 1826) was an important German early Romantic composer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Knowing Your Place

Carl Maria von Weber's clarinet works are part of the clarinetist's daily bread. –  Eric Simon, ‘Weber's Clarinet Composition,” The Clarinet, Fall 1950

When hearing Weber what you get

Is often for the clarinet;

He is, in fact, it’s sometimes said,

The clarinetist’s daily bread.

 

 

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William Horsley (15 [or 18] November 1774 – 12 June 1858) was an English composer and musician, once famous for several books of glees.  [NB: There is disagreement on his birth, e.g., Wikipedia gives his birthday as 18 November while Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians gives 15 November. A previous verse on Horsley appeared on November 15, 2022.]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh Gleedom

East of rough Atlantic seas

William Horsley wrote his glees,

A genre now dismissed as trivial,

But older Britons were convivial,

And raising pints and singing coarsely

Reveled in the glees of Horsley.

 

 

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