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SIMPSON, Thomas, an English musician,
who settled in Germany, and in 1610 was viola-
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house itt Bow Cliurch yard, ' who were successors
to Cluer (j.u).
So far as can be ascertained he died about
1747.
Simpson's most notable publications are
'Thesaurus Musicus,' in which God ' Save the
King' probably iirst appeared ; Carey's ' Musical
Century,' 1740; 'Calliope,' 1746; and much
other music now of considerable antiquarian
interest. He was succeeded by John Cox, who
reissued from Simpson's plates.
At Cox's death, or retirement, Robert Bremner,
Thorowgood, and the Thompson family
became possessed of many of Simpson's plates,
and republished some of his works. In 1770,
and thirty years later, Simpson's premises were
occupied by John and James Simpsin, apparently
descendants, who were flute-makers, and,
in a small way, music-publishers. Later than
this {circa 1825) a John Simpson was manufacturer
and teacher of the flute and flageolet
player in the Elector Palatine's band ; in 1 6 1 7 - 2
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he was in the band of the Prince of Holstein
Schaumburg. He was subsequently in the royal
band at Copenhagen. He published the following
works '
: Opusculum neuer Pauanen, Galliardeu,
Couranten vnd Volten,' Frankfort, 1610 ;
'Pauanen, Volten und Galliarden,' Frankfort,
1611 ; 'Opus Newer Paduanen, Galliarden,
Intraden, . . . mit 5 Stim.,' Hamburg, 1617,
and ' Taffel Consort allerhand lustige Lieder von
4 Instrumenteu und General-bass,' Hamburg,
1621, containing, besides pieces by Simpson himself.someby
Peter PhiUips, John Dowland,Robert
and Edwai'd Johnson, and others. "Vf. H. H.
SIMROCK. A very famous German musicpublishing
house, founded in 1790 at Bonn by
Nikolaus Simrock(1752-1834), second waldhorn
player in the Elector's band, to which Beethoven
and his father belonged. The first of Beethoven's
works on which Simrock's name appears
as original publisher is the Kreutzer Sonata,
op. 47, issued in 1805. But he published for
Beethoven an ' Edition trfes coi-recte ' of the two
Sonatas in G and D minor (op. 31, Nos. 1 and 2),
which Niigeli had printed so shamefully ; and
there is evidence in the letters that Simrock was
concerned in others of Beethoven's early works.
The next was the Sextet for strings and two
horns, op. 81i (1810) ; then the two Sonatas
for PF. and violoncello, op. 102 (1817) : the ten
themes with variations for PF. and violin or
flute, op. 107 (1820). He was succeeded in
1834 by Peter Joseph Simkook, who died in
1868, and about 1870 his successor, Friedrich
SiMROOK, founded the Berlin house, and there
published the principal works of Brahms.
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SINCLAIR, George Robertson, Mus.D.,
son of Robert Sharpe Sinclair, LL.D., Director
of Public Instruction in India, was born at
Croydon, Out. 28, 1863, and was educated at
St. Michael's College, Tenbury, and at the Royal
Irish Academy of Music. He studied successively
under Sir Frederick Gore Ouseley, Sir
Robert Stewart, and Dr. C. H. Lloyd. In 1879
he became assistant organist of Gloucester
Cathedral, and organist and choirnlaster of
St. Mary de Crypt, Gloucester; in 1880,
at the age of seventeen, he was appointed
organist and choirmaster of Tnu'O Cathedral.
Since 1889 he has filled the post of organist of
Hereford Cathedral with distinction, and his
conducting of the Hereford (Three Choirs)
Festivals from 1891 to 1906 brought him into
contact with the most eminentEnglish musicians
of the time, and ripened his experience as a
conductor, a capacity in which he has exhibited
very remarkable powers, being in sympathy
with every school of excellence, and being able
to impress his own reading of the classical and
other works upon all imder his command. He
is conductor of various Hereford and Herefordshire
societies, both choral and orchestral, and
as an organist he played at .six successive
Gloucester Festivals. In 1895 he was made
an honorary member of the Royal Academy,
having been L.R.A.M. since 1887; in 1899
he was appointed conductor of the Biimingham
Festival Choral Society, and received the degiee
of Mus.D. from the Archbishop of Canterbury.
In 1904 he was made an honorary fellow of the
Royal College of Organists. (SeeMusical Times,
1906, pp. 168, if.) He is also an ardelit
Freemason, a Past Grand Organist of England,
a Past Master of the Palladian Lodge, Ko. 120,
and Master of the 'Yaga' Lodge, No. 3146.
His impetuous character, his skilful pedalplaying,
the barking of his dog, and other
things, are immortalised in the eleventh variation
of Elgar's Enigma ' ' set for orchestra. M.
SINCLAIR, John, born near Edinburgh,
Deo. 9, 1791, was instructed in music from childhood,
and while stOl young joined the band of
a Scotch regiment as a clarinet player. He
also taught singing in Aberdeen, and acquired
sufficient means to purchase his discharge from
the regiment. Possessed of a fine tenor voice,
he was desirous of trying his fortune upon the
stage, came to London and appeared anonymously
as Capt. Cheerly in Shield's Lock and
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Key 'at the Haymarket, Sept. 7, 1810. His
success led to his becoming a pupil of Thomas
Welsh. He was engaged at Covent Garden,
where he appeared Sept. 30, 1811, as Don Carlos
in Sheridanand Linley's ' Duenna. ' He remained
there for seven seasons, during which he had
many original parts. He was the first singer
of the long popular recitative and air The
'
Pilgrim of Love ' in Bishop's Noble Outlaw,
'
jiroduced April 7, 1815. He also sang originally
in Bishop's Guy Mannering ' and The
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Slave,' and Davy's 'Rob Roy,' and acquired
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