Previous posts for February 24th are here: Arnold Dolmetsch (2020), Arrigo Boito (2021), Samuel Wesley (2022), Michel Legrand (2023), and Luigi Denza (2024)
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Charles Frederick Horn (24 February 1762 – 3 August 1830) was an English musician and composer, and music tutor to various members of the royal family of George III, including Queen Charlotte.
Of All I Survey
Charles Edward Horn’s father wished for his son to become a surveyor. Horn would often furtively practice music instead; when his father found out, he destroyed the family's clavichord in the hopes of preventing his son from becoming distracted from his studies. – adapted from Wikipedia
When Horn received the envied gig
Of music tutor to the queen,
He knew that he had made it big
Within the London music scene.
I wonder if he wrote his dad
A cynical epistle saying,
“Imagine what I might have had
If I had taken up surveying.”
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