Thomas Ebdon
Thomas Ebdon (1738–1811) was a British composer and organist born in Durham. He was a chorister in Durham Cathedral and was a pupil of James Heseltine, the organist there. He succeeded Heseltine in the office, aged 35, after some wrangling between the Chapter and Dean.
Thomas Ebdon
- Born
- 1738 · Durham.
- Died
- 1811
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Great Britain · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- composer · organist · conductor
- Languages
- English
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He died in office. He is most famous for the evening part of his Service in C, and his setting of the Preces and Responses. Ebdon was for many years a freemason at the Granby lodge in Durham, as well as being a senior member of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Durham, established in 1788. A march by Ebdon, for wind and brass (published by Dale of London in 1792), was composed for the installation in 1788 of William Lambton (1764–97) as the first Provincial Grand Master of Durham.
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1738
Thomas Ebdon born at Durham.
1811
Thomas Ebdon died.
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- 1.Maitland, John Alexander Fuller. 16. 342.
- 2.Scholes, Percy A. (1970) The Oxford Companion to Music, 10th ed. London: Oxford University Press; p. 314a
- 3.See 'Harmony and brotherly love: musicians and Freemasonry in 18th-century Durham City' by Simon Fleming in The Musical Times, 2008 (Autumn), 69–80
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