Previous posts for December 27th are here: Marlene Dietrich (2019), Anna Russell (2020), Anna Russell (2021), Oscar Levant (2022), Anna Russell (2023), and Anna Russell; Oscar Levant (2024)
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Sir John Goss (27 December 1800 – 10 May 1880) was an English organist, composer and teacher.
For Goss Sakes!
His music is always melodious and beautifully written for the voices, and is remarkable for a union of solidity and grace, with a certain unaffected native charm which ought to ensure it a long life. – Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1906)
If you should ever do research
On music of the English Church,
Eventually you'd run across
The stolid music of John Goss,
Whose pieces, - pious, bland, and plain, -
Were favored in Victoria's reign.
But by a sad aesthetic whim,
His legacy, though proud and prim,
Grows year by year more sadly dim…
An anthem now and then, or hymn.
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