John Eccles (composer)

John Eccles (composer)

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John Eccles (1668 - January 12, 1735) was an English composer.

Born in London, eldest son of professional musician Solomon Eccles, John Eccles was appointed to the King's Private Musick in 1694, and in 1700 became Master of the King's Musick. Also in 1700 he finished second in a competition to write music for William Congreve's masque "The Judgement of Paris" (John Weldon won).

Eccles was very active as a composer for the theatre, and from the 1690s wrote a large amount of incidental music including music for William Congreve's "Love for Love", John Dryden's "The Spanish Friar" and William Shakespeare's "Macbeth". Jointly with Henry Purcell he wrote incidental music for Thomas Durfey's "Don Quixote". He became a composer to Drury Lane theatre in 1693 and when some of the actors broke off to form their own company at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1695, he composed music for them as well. Eccles also wrote music for the coronation of Queen Anne and a number of songs. Many of his most famous songs, such as "I burn, I burn" were composed for actress-singer Anne Bracegirdle to perform. Eccles also wrote an all-sung English opera "Semele" with text by Congreve, but it was not staged until the 20th century. Congreve's libretto would later serve as the basis for Handel's "Semele".

For much of the later part of his life, Eccles lived in Kingston upon Thames and wrote additional incidental music (though not as frequently as he had for Lincoln's Inn Fields) as well as the occasional court ode. He is reported to have spent much of his time fishing.


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