DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

GRELL GEETRY 237
reprinted by J. J. Maier in tlie musical appendix
to Liliencron's Uistorisclie Follcslkder,
' Es woUt ein Jiiger jagen, ' and ' Von iippiglichen
Dingen.' J. ii. M.
GRELL, Eduard August, born in Berlin, Nov.
6, ISOO, the son of the organist ol' the Parot'hialkirclie
there, received his nuisical education
from his father, J. C. Kaufmann, Ritsclil, and
finally from Zelter, on whose recoinnteiidation
he recei%'ed the appointment of organist of the
Nicolaikirehe at the age of sixteen. In 1S17 he
entered theSingakademie, with which institution
he was connected in one way or another for
nearly sixty years. In 1832 he became its vicedirector,
under Rungenhagen, after whose death
lie was in 1853 appointed director, a post which
he held until 1876. In 1839 he was appointed
Hofdomorganist, and in 1841 M'as made a
member of the musical section of the Royal
Academy of Arts, with which institution he was
connected until 1881. In 1843-45 he was
Gesanglehrer of the Domchor. In 1858 he received
the title of professor, and in 1864 the
order pour le merite. He died at Steglitz, near
Berlin, August 10, 1886. Althoughhisseholastic
functions absorbed so large a proportion of his
time, he yet found op[iortunity for the composition
of many works of large extent and of
the most elaborate structure. He was one of the
most learned contrapuntists of his day in Germany,
and his works show him to have been
not only an ingenious theorist, but a richly gifted
artist. His greatest work is a mass in sixteen parts
a capella, besides which he produced psalms in
eight and eleven parts, a Te Deum, motets, cantatas,
an oratorio entitled ' and
Die Israeliten in der
Wuste, '
many songs and duets. See Heinrich
Bellermann's biography, 1899. M.
GRE3HAM IIUSICAL PROFESSORSHIP.
In the will of Sir Thomas Crresham, the founder
of the college bearing his name in the city of
London, proi'ision was made for several professor-
ships, and for the ' sallarie ' of a person ' mete to
rede the lecture of musicke ' in the college. Sir
Thomas died on Nov. 21, 1579, and his widow
on Nov. 3, 1596, upon wdiich the provision for
the lectures took effect, the civic authorities
requesting the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
to nominate persons properly qualified as
professors. Dr. John Bull was appointed the
first Professor of Music by the sjiecial recommendation
of Queen Elizabeth. The ordinance
adopted concerning the music lecture, according
to Stowe (Strype's edition), ran as follows :
' The solemn music lecture ia to be read twice
every week in manner following : viz.—the theo-
rique part for half an hour, and the practique,
by concert of voice or instruments, for the rest
of the hour ; whereof the first lecture to be in
the Latin tongue and the second in the English
tongue. The days appointed for the solemn
lectures of music are Thursday and Saturday in
theafternoonbetween the hours of three andfour;
and because at this time Dr. Bull is recommended
to the place by the Queen's most excellent
Majesty being not able to speak Latin, his
lectures are ]ieruutted to be altogether in English
so long as he shall continue the place of the
music lecturer there." At first the Professors
were given apartments in the college and a
stipend of £50 a year, Ijut in the 8th of Geo,
III. an Act was jiassed enabling the lecturers to
marry, any restriction in Sir Thomas Gresham's
will notwithstanding, and also giving them £50
a year in lieu of their apartments. For many
years the Professors had no knowledge of music,
and were utterly un*[ualified to lecture upon it.
The following is a list of the professors, with the
date of their appointments :— (1) John Bull,
Mus.Doc, 1590 (resigned on his marriage) ;
(2) Thomas Clayton, Doctor of Medicine, 1607 ;
(3) Rev. John Taverner, M.A,, 1610, elected at
tlie age of twenty-six, subsequently Rector of
Stoke Newington ; (4) Dr. Richard Knight,
physician, 1638 ; (5) Sir W. Petty, Doctor of
Medicine, 1650 ; (6) Sir Thomas Ba3mes, Doctor
of Medicine, 1660, ejected from office by a vote
of the committee ; (7) Rev. John Newey, M.A.,
incimibent of Itching Abbotts and Avington,
Hants, 1696 ; (8) Rev. Dr. R, Shippen, Principal
of Brasenose College, Oxford, and Rector of
"Whitechapel, 1705 (9) Edward Shippen, Doctor
;
of Medicine, 1710 ;
at-lawof Gray'slun, 1723 ;
(10) John Gordon, barrister-
(ll)Thomas Browne,
M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge,
1739, elected by an cipiality of votes, and the
committee proceeded to a second election ;
Charles
1762 ;
Gardner, 1739 ;
(12)
(13) Thomas Griffin,
(14)TheodoreAylward, assistant director
of the Handel Commemoration and organist of
St. George's, Windsor, 1771 ; (15) R. J. S.
Stevens, the glee composer, 1801 ;
Taylor, 1837 ; (17) Henry "Wylde, Mus.Doc,
1863 ; (18) J. F. Bridge, 1890. In 1832 and
for some years after, a medal ^\'as given by Miss
Maria Hackett (the ' choristers' friend ') in commemoration
of Sir Tlu-imas Gresham for the
best choral work, the judges being the Oxford
(16) Edward
Professor, Dr. Crotch ; the Gresham Professor,
Mr. Stevens ; and Mr. Horsley ; and the work was
sung at a commemoration service at St. Helen's,
Bishop)Sgate, which had been Sir Thomas's parish
church. The Music Lectures at the College were
for many years given in the evening, but
the present professor changed the time to the
afternoon and the i)lace to the City of London
School ; they are given in English, on days announced
in the newspapers, and the admission to
them is free. For an instance of the manner in
which the intentions of the founder were at one
time set at naught see Gkiffin, Thos. c. m.
GRETRY, Andr6 Erne.st Modeste, born
Feb. 8, 1741, at Lipge, on the ground-floor ofa
small house in the Rue des Reoollets, now No.
28. His father, a poor violinist, placed him at
six years old in the choir of St. Denis ; but