• Master of the King's Music (or Master of the Queen's Music, or earlier Master of the King's Musick) is a post in the Royal Household of the United Kingdom...
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    Errollyn Wallen (category Masters of the King's Music)
    England. Wallen was the first black woman to have a work featured in the Proms. She is serving as Master of the King's Music, the first black woman to...
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  • Judith Weir (category Masters of the King's Music)
    British composer. She served as Master of the King's Music from 2014 to 2024. Appointed by Queen Elizabeth II, Weir was the first woman to hold this office...
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    Nicholas Lanier (category Masters of the King's Music)
    musician; the first to hold the title of Master of the King's Music from 1625 to 1666, an honour given to musicians of great distinction. He was the court...
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  • Nicholas Staggins (category Masters of the King's Music)
    an English composer. Staggins first studied music under his father. He was made Master of the King's Music by Charles II in 1674. In 1682, he was granted...
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    John Stanley (composer) (category Masters of the King's Music)
    directed the annual performance of Handel's Messiah in aid of the hospital funds. In 1779 Stanley succeeded William Boyce as Master of the King's Band of musicians...
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  • The Master of the Revels was the holder of a position within the English, and later the British, royal household, heading the "Revels Office" or "Office...
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    Walford Davies (category Masters of the King's Music)
    and educator who held the title Master of the King's Music from 1934 until 1941. He served with the Royal Air Force during the First World War, during...
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    William Boyce (composer) (category Masters of the King's Music)
    Boyce's most famous song, Heart of Oak. As Master of the King's Musick Boyce had the responsibility of writing music for royal occasions including funerals...
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  • John Eccles (composer) (category Masters of the King's Music)
    became Master of the King's Musick. In the latter year he finished second in a competition to write music for William Congreve's masque The Judgement of Paris...
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    Maurice Greene (composer) (category Masters of the King's Music)
    appointed Master of the King's Musick. At his death, Greene was working on the compilation Cathedral Music, which his student and successor as Master of the King's...
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    on the BBC adaption of ‘Kilvert’s Diary’ In 1977 he was given the title of Sir Les Penning, Master of the King's music, by Richard Booth, the King of Hay...
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  • Louis Grabu (category Masters of the King's Music)
    own private music in 1665, and with the death of Nicholas Lanier in 1666 he became the second person to hold the title Master of the King's Musick. He...
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    contemplation of eternity." "Master of The King's Music, Judith Weir CBE composes new work for the State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II". Wise Music Group...
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  • King's College School, also known as Wimbledon, KCS, King's and KCS Wimbledon, is a private day school in Wimbledon, southwest London, England. The school...
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    Arnold Bax (category Masters of the Queen's Music)
    of seven symphonies which form the heart of his orchestral output. In 1942 Bax was appointed Master of the King's Music, but composed little in that capacity...
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  • describing popular music artists, honorific nicknames are used, most often in the media or by fans, to indicate the significance of an artist, and are...
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    in music and painting typically began to be given their own offices and titles, as Court painter, Master of the King's Music and so forth, and the valets...
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  • musician) (1745/6–1817), Master of the King's Music William Parsons (poet) (died 1828), English writer associated with the Della Cruscan movement William...
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  • rock music was founded upon with elements of jazz, classical, and symphonic music. Widely regarded as one of the greatest progressive rock albums of all...
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  • Kent Masters King (born August 5, 1974) is an American actress known for her appearances on the daytime soap opera General Hospital. Kent was born and...
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    (born 1954 and the first woman to hold the office of Master of the King's Music). Women composers are also listed alphabetically at List of women composers...
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  • the Tweeney were all created for the film. Maurice Denham as the King Mischa Auer as the Master of the King's Music Reginald Beckwith as magician Robert...
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  • The King's Medal for Music (or the Queen's Medal for Music during the reign of a queen) is an annual award, instituted in 2005, for contribution to the...
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    Kempsey, Worcestershire (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    (25 m) tall. The composer Sir Edward Elgar lived in the village from 1923 to 1927, during which time he was made Master of the King's Music. The village has...
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    Gregynog Hall (category University of Wales)
    music festival, was established in 1933 by the Davies sisters, with the advice of their friend and advisor, Sir Henry Walford Davies (later Master of...
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    David Willcocks (category Alumni of King's College, Cambridge)
    recommendation by the then Master of the King's Music, Sir Henry Walford Davies, to Ernest Bullock. From 1934 to 1938, he was a music scholar at Clifton...
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  • Master of Puppets is the third studio album by the American heavy metal band Metallica, released on March 3, 1986, by Elektra Records. Recorded in Copenhagen...
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    Parratt, the Master of the King's Music, who had the influence at court that Bridge lacked. Bridge decided to make the coronation a celebration of four hundred...
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    happy and getting the notes right.": 15  King's mother began giving her real music lessons when she was four: 16  with King climbing the stool, made higher...
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