Wood was born in Oxford Street, London, the only child of Henry Joseph Wood and his wife Martha, "née" Morris. Wood senior had started in his family's pawnbroking business, but by the time of his son's birth he was trading as a jeweller, optician and engineering modeller, much sought-after for his model engines. It was a musical household: Wood senior was an amateur cellist and sang as principal tenor in the choir of St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, known as "the musicians' church". His wife played the piano and sang songs from her native Wales. They encouraged their son's interest in music, buying him a Broadwood piano, on which his mother gave him lessons.
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Henry Wood
Henry Wood | Early years
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who wrote the hallelujah chorus from handel messiah
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George Frideric Handel
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what is it?
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It is an English-language oratorio, with a scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible, and from the Coverdale Psalter, the version of the "Psalms" included with the "Book of Common Prayer".
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when was it composed?
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1741
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how many parts does it have?
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3 parts
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was it ever recorded?
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In 1926
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by whom?
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Sir Henry Wood
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on what was it recorded?
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Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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do you know the full name of the knight you just mentioned?
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Sir Henry Joseph Wood
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were there live performances of the original work?
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No, they are based on one of three 20th-century performing editions
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where was the writer born?
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Woods was born on 16 June 1842 in Woodend, Northamptonshire. He was educated at Lancing College, an Anglican public school in Lancing, West Sussex. As an exhibitioner and later a scholar, he studied classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He gained a first in "Mods" in 1863 and a first in "Greats" in 1865.
Henry George Woods | Early life
Wood was born in Quincy, Massachusetts. He majored in speech and theater at Emerson College.
Gene Wood | Early life
On 2 June 1907, Wood was born in New York City. During his childhood, Wood lived in various parts of Western Canada before residing in Red Deer, Alberta at the age of eleven. When he was sixteen, Wood began to write after a teacher encouraged him to leave high school and focus on writing.
Kerry Wood (author) | Early life
Wood was born in Palmer, Massachusetts on May 30, 1818.
Rufus Corbin Wood | Early life
He showed an early interest in the arts, became involved in amateur theatricals for a while and demonstrated a talent for drawing.
Henry Liverseege | Early years
Woods was born in Budapest, Hungary, but his family brought him to the United States as an infant. He grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. As a child he would skip school to go to theatrical shows, where he developed the goal of becoming a producer himself.
Albert H. Woods | Early life
Hull was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of William Madison Hull (a theater manager) and Elinor Bond Vaughn. The family moved to New York City in 1902 and later settled in Barkhamsted, Connecticut. Hull graduated from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
Henry Hull | Early years
Born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, Carpenter attended the Old Vic Theatre School before starting an acting career by working in repertory theatre.
Richard Carpenter (screenwriter) | Early life
Born in Mason, New Hampshire, Wood moved to New York in 1816 with his parents, who settled in Rensselaerville. He attended the common schools.
Walter A. Wood | Early life
Although there is some uncertainty about his early years, he is described as being the son of William Giffard. Born in London - in Lincoln's Inn Fields by some accounts - he worked for several years as a clerk for the South Sea Company before turning to acting.
Henry Giffard | Early life
He was born the son of Samuel V. Woodruff, a wealthy New York businessman, and first appeared on stage at nine in the 1879 juvenile company of "H.M.S. Pinafore". He acted with Daniel E. Bandmann and Adelaide Neilson. He later attended Harvard University and after graduating returned to acting.
Henry Woodruff | Early life
Although Ireland claimed throughout his life that he was born in London in 1777, the Ireland family Bible puts his birth two years earlier, on 2 August 1775. His father, Samuel Ireland, was a successful publisher of travelogues, collector of antiquities and collector of Shakespearian plays and "relics". There was at the time, and still is, a great scarcity of writing in the hand of Shakespeare. Of his 37 plays, there is not one copy in his own writing, not a scrap of correspondence from Shakespeare to a friend, fellow writer, patron, producer or publisher. Forgery would fill this void.
William Henry Ireland | Early life
After leaving Rome, Thomas stayed briefly in Germany, before returning to Paris in 1835, when he began writing for the stage.
Ambroise Thomas | Early years
Tom was born in Burton Upon Trent in Staffordshire, England, and now lives in London.
Tom Wood (author) | Early life and education
However, lack of money obliged him to return to London and he began writing for the theatre. Some of his work was savagely critical of the government of Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole.
Henry Fielding | Early life
He was born in Orange, New Jersey.
Henry O'Neill | Early years
Wood was born in Oxford Street, London, the only child of Henry Joseph Wood and his wife Martha, "née" Morris. Wood senior had started in his family's pawnbroking business, but by the time of his son's birth he was trading as a jeweller, optician and engineering modeller, much sought-after for his model engines. It was a musical household: Wood senior was an amateur cellist and sang as principal tenor in the choir of St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, known as "the musicians' church". His wife played the piano and sang songs from her native Wales. They encouraged their son's interest in music, buying him a Broadwood piano, on which his mother gave him lessons.
Henry Wood | Early years
Cherry was born in New York on May 21, 1823.
Henry P. Cherry | Early life
It is not clear whether he was a member of Manuel Garcia's singing class, but it is certain that he became its accompanist and was greatly influenced by Garcia. Wood also accompanied the opera class, taught by Garcia's son Gustave. Wood's ambition at the time was to become a teacher of singing, and he gave singing lessons throughout his life. He attended the classes of as many singing teachers as he could, although by his own account, "I possess a terrible voice. Garcia said it would go through a brick wall. In fact, a real conductor's voice."
Henry Wood | Early years
Sutton was born in Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk, to writer Belinda Brett and furniture maker Toby Sutton.
Henry Sutton (novelist) | Early life
Henry Twynam was born on 1853 at Bishopstoke, near Winchester.
Henry Twynam | Early life
Wood was born in Westminster, London to an English father and a French mother. He attended City of London Academy Highbury Grove and trained as an actor at the Anna Scher Drama School in Islington, North London.
Jake Wood | Early life
Born in New York City he was a pupil of Daniel Huntington in New York, and subsequently studied in Rome and Florence.
Henry Peters Gray | Early life
Henry Spry was born in 1834 in Bloomsbury, London to Charles and Sarah Maria Spry.
Henry Spry | Early life
Taylor's place in Barbados was abolished in 1820, subsequent to which he returned to his father's house.
Henry Taylor (dramatist) | Early life
He was born and grew up in Ngukurr, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. He worked as a bricklayer and stockman before moving into theatre.
Tom E. Lewis | Early life
Born in St John's Wood, London, England in 1876, H. B. Warner was educated at Bedford School. His father, Charles Warner, was an actor, and though young Henry initially thought about studying medicine, he eventually followed in his father's footsteps and performed on the stage. He had an older sister, Grace Warner (1873-1925), who was a stage actress and manager.
H. B. Warner | Early life
Michael George Wood was born in Lincoln, England. He obtained his BA in 1957 in French and German from St John's College, Cambridge, and his PhD in 1962, also from Cambridge, for a thesis entitled "The Dramatic Function of Symbol in Maeterlinck and Claudel".
Michael Wood (literary scholar) | Early life and education
The younger son of Harold Frederick Woodnutt and brother of the Conservative M.P. Mark Woodnutt, he was born in London, and at the age of 18 made his acting debut at the Oxford Playhouse.
John Woodnutt | Early life and education
Woods was born in Lake Forest, California. She studied musical theater at the University of Arizona.
Christine Woods | Early life
He was born is Islington, London, the son of a Baptist Minister. He attended the City of London School and then Jesus College, Cambridge, where he took the classical tripos and then historical tripos.
Robert Stanford Wood | Early life
Henry Parayre was born on July 9, 1879 in Toulouse, France.
Henry Parayre | Early life
Wood was born in Long Beach, California, the son of Donna Wood, a finance professional, and Thomas Mills Wood, Sr., a variety performer and accountant.
Thomas Mills Wood | Early life
Wood was born on in Quebec City. he was the son of George Augustus Leslie Wood, merchant, and Charlotte Feodore Louisa Augusta Guérout.
William Charles Henry Wood | Background
Wood was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and attended Howe High School. He received a bachelor's degree in speech and broadcasting from Purdue University.
Lew Wood | Early life
Feffer was born on January 15, 1918 in New York.
Henry Feffer | Early Life and Childhood
Henry (Harry) F. Williams was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 13, 1813. He began to study music at the age of seven. As a young man, he studied with Peter Albrecht von Hagen, Jr. and, until the age of 21 along with Alfred Howard and Henry Thacker. He was a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. In the early 1840s, he ran a music studio in Boston.
Henry F. Williams | Early life
Haworth was born in Cleveland in 1917 and grew up in the suburb of Willoughby, Ohio. His father, William, was a playwright and theatrical producer. He attended the University of Southern California.
Ted Haworth | Early years
Gattie, was born near Bath, Somerset in 1774, and brought up to the trade of a wig-maker.
Henry Gattie | Early life
She went on to study drama at the University of Birmingham.
Victoria Wood | Early years
Pierce was born on August 6, 1841 in Duxbury, Massachusetts.
Henry B. Pierce | Early life
Lowcock was born in Middlesex, England in about 1837.
Henry Lowcock | Early Years
Wood was born into a teetotal Evangelical family and was educated at Monkton Combe School, Bath, Queens' College, Cambridge and Ridley Hall, Cambridge.
Maurice Wood | Early life and education
Christopher Wood was born in Knowsley to Doctor Lucius and Clare Wood. He was educated at Marlborough College in Wiltshire, then briefly flirted with medicine and architecture at Liverpool University before pursuing an artistic career.
Christopher Wood (painter) | Early life
Born in London, England, Hurst studied philology in his youth and began performing in theater in the 1880s.
Brandon Hurst | Early life
Wood was born in 1808 in New York state. He studied law, but then moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1834 and then to the backcountry pioneer village of Fort Wayne in 1836.
George W. Wood | Early life
He was educated at Chichester High School for Boys and Worcester College, Oxford.
David Wood (actor) | Early life
Jackie Smith-Wood was born in 1954 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. She was educated at Oxford University and at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
Jackie Smith-Wood | Early life and education
Woods was born in North Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Despite the fact that he was born with a deformed left hand (which still had fingers), Woods' mother, a concert singer, encouraged him to play the piano. Woods earned his bachelor's degree at Harvard University, supporting himself by singing in church choirs and giving piano recitals.
Harry M. Woods | Early life
King was born in Baldwin Springs, Alabama. He graduated high school in 1956 in Detroit, Michigan, United States, and worked at the Ford Motor Company there for three years. He then worked for the City of Detroit as a draftsman. He founded the New Federal Theatre in 1970. He earned an M.F.A. at Brooklyn College in 1999.
Woodie King Jr. | Early life and education
Wood was born in Parbold, Lancashire and grew up in a musical family; while still a teenager, he was encouraged by the composer Alan Bush. He says that his "earliest enthusiasm was Bach... and that's been at the center of everything ever since." After military service in Egypt, he studied History at New College, Oxford, where he dedicated much of his time to music and writing compositions for the theatre. In 1954, he moved to London to study composition privately with William Lloyd Webber, Anthony Milner, Iain Hamilton, and Mátyás Seiber. He also started a parallel career as a music teacher by finding work in schools, including Morley College, and as a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music.
Hugh Wood | Biography
There were no Sunday performances.
The Proms | Origins and Sir Henry Wood
With the exception of a season at the Opera Comique in 1896, Wood's subsequent conducting career was in the concert hall.
Henry Wood | Opera
There was a time when I was younger where I just wanted to be at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre."
Simon Pegg | Early life
He was born Theodore Courtright in New Milford, Illinois, and was educated in the public schools of Ione, California. When he was 16, he ran away from home to join a stock theater company.
William Courtright | Early years
Whitney was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, but grew up in California. His schools included the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He studied drama at the Pasadena Playhouse.
Peter Whitney | Early years
Farnsworth was born on August 7, 1890, in Dedham, Massachusetts. He attended Groton School and then Harvard College where he was graduated in 1912. After graduating, he toured Vienna, Budapest, Constantinople, Odessa, Moscow, and St. Petersburg.
Henry Weston Farnsworth | Early life
Woodvine was born in Tyne Dock, South Shields, County Durham, England, the son of Rose (née Kelly) and John Woodvine. He was educated at Lord Williams's School, Thame, Oxfordshire and trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
John Woodvine | Early life
Wood was born and raised in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where his family lived near an evangelical church. He received his bachelor's degree in philosophy from Arkansas State University, and his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Arkansas, where he studied under T. C. Duncan Eaves, who inspired Wood to focus his dissertation studies on 18th century literature.
John Wood (poet) | Early life and education
She worked for several years performing on the stage.
Beatrice Wood | Childhood
In June 1883, visiting the Fisheries Exhibition at South Kensington with his father, Wood was invited to play the organ in one of the galleries, making a good enough impression to be engaged to give recitals at the exhibition building over the next three months. At this time in his life, painting was nearly as strong an interest as music, and he studied in his spare time at the Slade School of Fine Art. He remained a life-long amateur painter. After taking private lessons from the musicologist Ebenezer Prout, Wood entered the Royal Academy of Music at the age of seventeen, studying harmony and composition with Prout, organ with Charles Steggall, and piano with Walter Macfarren.
Henry Wood | Early years
Kolker was born in Quincy, Illinois.
Henry Kolker | Early years
He was born in Alsace, and educated at a military college. He emigrated to the United States, and served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, losing an eye as a result of a wound received in action. Afterwards, he moved to London, and began to write for the stage. His first play, "Jeanne Dubarry", was produced at the Charing Cross Theatre in May 1875, and was followed the next year by "Slight Mistakes", a farce. In November 1882, was produced his first great success, "The Silver King", written in collaboration with Henry Arthur Jones, with whom he also wrote "Breaking a Butterfly" (an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House"; 1884) and "Chatterton" (1884).
Henry Herman | Biography
Haywood was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Pippa Haywood | Early life and education
His MA thesis (1933) was on the Elizabethan dramatist, Henry Chettle. This thesis was supervised by W. W. Greg, and was subsequently published as "The Life and Work of Henry Chettle".
Harold Jenkins (Shakespeare scholar) | Early life
Montague was born on July 30, 1813 in Hadley, Massachusetts. Montague moved to Michigan in 1835.
Henry Montague | Early life
Henry Alabaster was born in 1836, the son of James Chaloner Alabaster and Harriet Woodman. His paternal aunt, Mary Ann Criddle, was a notable artist, while his younger brother Chaloner Alabaster was an English diplomat and administrator in China. He was educated at King's College London.
Henry Alabaster | Early life and family
He was the son of composer Solomon Eccles and the brother of composer John Eccles.
Henry Eccles | Early life
Marjorie Wood was born in Dublin (some sources give London).
Marjorie Wood | Early life
Rudley was born in 1910 in Philadelphia and attended Temple University. He left Temple after winning a scholarship to Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre.
Herbert Rudley | Early life
Willard at the "Metropolitan Theatre and New York Opera House".
Harry Eytinge | Early career
Thomas was born in Bristol on 11 May 1886.
Henry Haberfield Thomas | Early life
They acted together again in Hamilton's "Moths" and took the play on tour until December 1882.
Henry Hamilton (playwright) | Early life and acting
Wood was born in Southam, Warwickshire circa 1807.
Frederick Wood (surveyor) | Early life and education
Samuel Grosvenor Wood was born on July 10, 1883 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to William Henry Wood and Katherine (née Corn) Wood. He attended M. Hall Stanton School. One of Wood's daughters, born Gloria Wood, was film and television actress K.T. Stevens.
Sam Wood | Early life and family
Webb was born at Upper Norwood in 1846, the son of a Professor of Botany and Rural Economy.
Henry J. Webb | Early life
Wood was born to an Irish Catholic family in Trenton, New Jersey, where she was raised. She began work as a writer at 14 at the Beachcomber newspaper on Long Beach Island, NJ. She attended Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
Nancy Wood (author) | Early life
Anne Wood was born on 2 August 1907 at The Grange, Crawley, Sussex, the daughter of Percival Wood, JP for Sussex, and his wife, Eleanor. She was educated at St Mary's School, Calne, and studied singing alongside Elena Gerhardt, George Parker, and Eve de Reussy.
Anne Wood (opera administrator) | Early life
Henry Angest was born in July 1940 in Switzerland.
Henry Angest | Early life
Kelly was born in Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland, and educated at Belvedere College SJ, and at University College Dublin, where he was auditor of the Literary and Historical Society. Whilst at university he wrote theatre reviews for "The Irish Times".
Henry Kelly | Early life
The son of a merchant, LeGrand was born in Portland, Oregon, and attended schools there. Participation in high school plays changed his career interest from engineering to acting.
Richard LeGrand | Early years
Woodman was born on May 24, 1825 in Sutton, Vermont.
Jonathan J. Woodman | Early life
Seibels was born in Montgomery to Colonel Emmett Seibels and Anne Goldthwaite.
Henry Seibels | Early years
Bryan was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on May 3, 1865.
Henry Francis Bryan | Early life
Henry Wood (1869–1944) was a British conductor. Henry Wood may also refer to:
Henry Wood (disambiguation) | Introduction
Barnes was born in Surat on 11 February 1815; and educated at Clare College, Cambridge.
Henry Barnes-Lawrence | Early life
Born in Harford, CT. Pursued studies at the Suffield Literary Institute and the Fairmount Theological Seminary in Kentucky.
Henry Ephraim Robins | Early life
Charles Gerald Wood (6 August 1932 – 1 February 2020) was a playwright and scriptwriter for radio, television, and film. He lived in England. His work has been staged at the Royal National Theatre as well as at the Royal Court Theatre and in the theatres of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984. Wood served in the 17th/21st Lancers and military themes are found in many of his works.
Charles Wood (playwright) | Introduction
He later attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, spending weekends in Manhattan, where he wrote weekly gossip columns for "Variety".
Henry Willson | Early life
Wood was born on a farm near Monroe City, Missouri to a prosperous farming family with land holding in Missouri and Texas. He became an accomplished stockman while still a teenager. At the age of 44 he visited Alberta and the following year (1905) purchased a wheat farm and moved his family to Carstairs, Alberta.
Henry Wise Wood | Background and early career
Hyde was born in the Kings Norton area of Birmingham in 1875, the third son of Henry Michael Hyde (1848–1920), a carpenter, and Elizabeth "née" Hiley (1851–1932). His twin brothers, Harry and Charles, were two years older. The family had musical inclinations. Hyde later recalled: My earliest recollection of things musical is going to church one Sunday morning with my father, who was principal tenor in the choir. I was presented to an elderly, dignified gentleman, who asked me to sing "Doh, re, mi." With all the assurance that the mature age of six could command, I stammered, `Yes, sir.' There was a touch of comedy behind all this, because the smallest surplice was much too large for my tiny body.
Walter Hyde | Early life
Carlyle was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. His education included attendance at Sherwood Dramatic Art School and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Richard Carlyle | Early years
Fairfax was also a member of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals at Harvard.
Fairfax Henry Wheelan | Early life and education
Anhalt was born in New York City. He began writing at the age of 15, with his first play being "" by George Bernard Shaw. He got criticized by Shaw for messing with his work, and went to attend Columbia and Princeton universities instead.
Edward Anhalt | Early life and education
Acker was born on June 6, 1804, likely in New York.
Henry Acker | Early life
Alford was raised in Worcester, Massachusetts. He has painted a fairly rollicking portrait of his childhood; of his and his siblings' singing of Christmas carols in church, he wrote, "We can make 'Angels We Have Heard on High' sound like a scrum of Panzers." He began his college career at Bard College at Simon's Rock (then Simon's Rock College of Bard). Later, he transferred to New York University and worked as a casting director in the film industry for three years.
Henry Alford (writer) | Early life
Woodbury was born in Belfast, Maine, to Blaine and Nellie (née Jackson) Woodbury. He graduated from Crosby High School in Belfast before enrolling in the Leland Powers School of Radio, Television and Theater in Boston, Massachusetts.
Wendall Woodbury | Early life
Born in Stoke, Plymouth, Fitzgerland was a former stockbroker before he began his theatrical training at RADA.
Walter Fitzgerald | Early life
He went to sea as a cabin boy in 1860, aged 14, with his father's permission.
James Henry Carpenter | Early life
Haines was born at Bedhampton, Hampshire, on 21 June 1778; but taken in infancy to Chichester he always regarded that city as his native place. He was educated at the Midhurst grammar school, witnessing while there the destruction by fire of Cowdray House. Two years after that disaster he was with Thew, the engraver, at Northaw, Hertfordshire, where, when sufficiently proficient, he worked with Scriven and others on the Boydell-Shakespeare plates.
William Haines (artist) | Early life