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120 EOGERS ROGEKS
himself compelled to bid farewell to tlie Acaddmie
and to Paris.
He went once more to Germany, which he
had been in the habit of visiting since 1850,
and where he was invariably successful, partly
owing to his unusual command of the language.
After this he sang in the principal provincial
theatres of France, and in 1861 reappeared at
the Op^ra-Comique in his best parts,
especially
that of Georges Brown in 'La Dame Blanche,'
but it
was evident that the time for his retirement
had arrived. He then took pupils for
singing, and in 1868 accepted a professorship
at the Conservatoire, which he held till his
death, Sept. 12, 1879.
Roger was of an amiable and benevolent disposition.
He talked well, wrote with ease, and
was the author of the French translation of
Haydn's Seasons,' and of the words '
of several
romances and German Lieder. His book, Le
Garnet d'un Unor (Paris, Ollendorff, 1880), is a
portion of his autobiography. It contains an
account of his visits to England in 1847 (June),
and 1848 (June-Nov.), when he sang at the
Royal Italian Opera, and made an artistic tour
in the provinces with Mile. Jenny Lind, and
other artists. G. c.
ROGERS, Benjamin, Mus.D., son of Peter
Rogers, lay-clerk of St. George's Chapel, Windsor,
was born at Windsor in 1614. He was
a chorister of St. George's under Dr. Giles,
and afterwards a lay r clerk there. He succeeded
Jewett in 16-39 as organist of Christ
Church, Dublin, where he continued until the
rebellion in 1641, when he returned to Windsor
and obtained a lay-clerk's place there ; but
on the breaking up of the choir in 1644 he
taught music in Windsor and its neighbourhood,
and obtained some compensation for the loss of
his appointment. In 1653 he composed some
airs in four parts for violins and organ, which
were presented to the Archduke Leopold, afterwards
Emperor of Germany, and favourably
received by him. In 1658 he was admitted
Mus.B. at Cambridge. (See Carlyle's Oliver
Cromwell, v. 243, 244 (People's edition).) In
1660 he composed a Hymnns Euoharistieus
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in four parts, to words by Dr. Nathaniel Ingelo,
which was performed at Guildhall when Charles
II. dined there on July 5.' About the same
time he became organist of Eton College. On
Oct. 21, 1662, he was reappointed a lay-clerk
at St. George's, Windsor, his stipend being
augmented by half the customary amount ; and
he also received out of the organist's salary £1
per month as deputy organist. On July 22,
1664, he was appointed Informator Choristarum
and organist of Magdalen College, Oxford. On
July 8, 1669, he proceeded Mus.D. at Oxford.
In Jan. 1685 he was removed from his place at
Magdalen College on account of irregularities
1 Thehymn vita different fram that, beArln^ the same title, wMcb
Bbgers afterwarde eet for Magdaleu College, Oxford.
(see Wesfs Gaih. Org., p. 120), the College, however,
assuring to him an annuity of £30 for life.
He survived until June 1698, on the 21st of
which month he was buried at St. Peter-le-Bailey.
His widow, whom the College had pensioned
with two-thirds of his annuity, survived him
only seven months, and was laid by his side
Jan. 5, 1699.—Rogers composed much church
music ; four services are printed in the collections
of Boyce, Rimbault, and Sir F. Ouseley ; another,
an Evening Verse Service in G, is at Ely in MS.
Some anthems were printed in 'Cantica Sacra,'
1674, and by Boyce and Page ; and many others
are in MS. in the books of various cathedrals
and college chapels. Four glees are contained
in Playford's 'Musical Companion,' 1673, and
many instrumental compositions in 'Courtly
Masquing Ayres,' 1662. [Some MS. organ
compositions are in the library of the Royal
College of Music, and Mr. J. S. Bumpus possesses
a volume in the handwriting of Dr. Philip Hayes,
containing the whole of Rogers's compositions
for the church.] His Hymnus Eucharisticus
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(the first stanza of which, commencing 'TeDeum
Patrem colimus,' is daily sung in Magdalen
College Hall by way of grace after dinner, and
is printed in the Appendix to Hawkins's History)
is sung annually on the top of Magdalen tower
at five in the morning of May 1 in lieu of a
requiem which, before the Reformation, was
performed in the same place for the soul of
Henry VII. His service in D and some of his
anthems, which are pleasing and melodious in
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character, are still sung in cathedrals, w. h. h.
ROGERS, John, a famous lutenist, born in
London, was attached to the household of
Charles II. in 1661-63. He lived near Aldersgate,
and died thereabout 1663. w. H. H.
ROGERS, SiE John Leman, Bart., born April
18, 1780, succeeded his father in the baronetcy
in 1797. He became a member of the Madrigal
Society in 1819, and in 1820 was elected its
permanent President (being the first so appointed),
and held the office until 1841, when
he resigned on account of ill-health. He composed
a cathedral service, chants, anthems,
madrigals, glees, and other vocal music. [See
Hullah's Part Music, Class A, and Vocal
Scores.] He was an ardent admirer of the
compositions of Tallis, and by his exertions an
annual service was held for several years in
Westminster Abbey, the music being wholly
thatofTallis. HediedDee. 10, 1847. w. h. h.
ROGERS, Mus.D., bom at West
Bromwich, Staffordshire, Nov. 17, 1847, where
he was appointed organist of St. Peter's Church
in 1858. He studied under Mr. S. Grosvenor,
and in 1862 obtained by competition the post
of organist at St. John's, Wolverhampton. In
1867 he similarly obtained the organistship
Of Tettenhall parish church, and in 1871 was
appointed organist and choirmaster of Bangor
Cathedral, a post which he resigned at the end