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John Wall Callcott (20 November 1766 – 15 May 1821) was an English composer.
Callcott was born in Kensington, London. He was a pupil of Haydn, and is celebrated mainly for his glee compositions and catches. In the best known of his catches he ridiculed Sir John Hawkins' History of Music. Although ill-health prevented Callcott from completing his Musical Dictionary, His Musical Grammar (1806) remained in use throughout the 19th century.
His glees number at least 100, of which 8 won prizes. Callcott set lyrics by leading poets of his day, including Thomas Gray, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Chatterton, Robert Southey and Ossian. They include (selective list):

O snatch me swift for 5 voices SATBarB
It was a friar of orders grey for 3 voices SSB
In the lonely vale of streams for 4 voices SATB
Ella for 4 voices SATB
Cara, vale! for 4 voices SSTB
Father of Heroes (1792) for 5 voices ATTBB
The Erl-King - a setting of Goethe's Erlkönig translated into English by Matthew Lewis, author of the Gothic novel, The Monk,
the original setting (as a three part glee) of Drink to me only with thine eyes
A number of his glees specify two soprano or treble (boy soprano) voices, the second of which has a range appropriate to a female mezzo-soprano or contralto (but would have been thought too high for a counter-tenor of this period).
Callcott also composed solo songs and religious music including psalms and sacred canons.
Callcott's daughter Elizabeth married William Horsley who, in 1824, published A collection of Glees Canons and Catches, an edition of his father-in-law's works together with a Memoir of Dr Callcott. His son William Hutchins Callcott became a composer and arranger.
His brother Augustus Wall Callcott was a noted landscape painter.




Bibliography


Sketches of (the English) Glee Composers by David Baptie. William Reeves: London, 1896




External links


Free scores by John Wall Callcott in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
Free scores by John Wall Callcott at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Callcott, John Wall". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.

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