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Charles Wesley junior (born
11th December,
1757 in
Bristol - died
23rd May 1834 in
London) was an
English organist and
composer. He was the son of
Charles Wesley, the great
hymn-writer and one of the founders of
Methodism, and the brother of
Samuel Wesley, also an organist and composer. He is usually referred to as "Charles Wesley junior" to avoid confusion with his more famous father. He never married, living for most of his life with his mother and sister.
Although Charles Wesley junior is much less well known than his brother Samuel Wesley, he was like Samuel regarded as a musical prodigy in childhood, and he was playing the organ before the age of 3. He became a professional musician in adulthood, and Matthews (1971) quotes the
European Magazine of 1784 as reporting that "his performance on the organ has given supreme delight". However he didn't enjoy public performance, and worked mainly as a private organist, at one time to the
Prince Regent; he was connected with the royal family through much of his life, having first played at the Queen's House at the age of 18. A handful of his compositions are still played, and a keyboard
sonata in F minor was recently discovered and received its first performance on 1st February 2007 at the
Perkins School of Theology at
Southern Methodist University, as part of Methodist celebration of a year that's both the 300th anniversary of Charles Wesley's birth and the 250th anniversary of Charles Wesley junior's.
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