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==Life==
==Life==
'''Born:''' 14 March 1795
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'''Biography'''
'''Biography'''
Robert Lucas Pearsall was born at Clifton Hill, Bristol, into a wealthy Quaker family. His father was an army officer and amateur musician. He was privately educated and practiced as a barrister in Bristol. In 1825, after suffering a stroke, he took his family to live abroad—first to Mainz, then to Karlsruhe (1830), studying mensural notation with the caecilian [[Caspar Ett]] (Munich 1832). He sold the family estate in Willsbridge and, in 1842, bought {{W|1=Schloss Wartensee|2=Wartensee Castle|lang=de}}, a ruined medieval keep near Rorschach in Switzerland and spent several years restoring it. He remained there until his death. Pearsall was an amateur composer and many of his compositions were not published until after his death. He is best remembered for his part-songs, many of which were madrigals. He also wrote orchestral works, anthems, services, musical treatises, and edited a Catholic hymnal. His extensive writings encompass works on chant, heraldry, and verse translations of Schiller & Goethe. He kept in touch with his home city of Bristol and wrote many pieces for the Bristol Madrigal Society. He also composed poetry, some of which he used for his madrigals, such as ‘Why Do the Roses’ and ‘Why should the cuckoo’s tuneful note’. The particle “de” often spelled in his name is a feature added after his death by his daughter Philippa.
A ms. copy in Pearsall's hand is exhibit A in proposing him as a plausible suspect for the anonymous composer of [[Duetto buffo di due gatti (Gioachino Rossini)|'Rossini's Cat Duet']].
{{WikipediaLink|Robert Lucas de Pearsall}}
{{WikipediaLink|Robert Lucas de Pearsall}}


==List of choral works==
==Works==
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===Sacred works===
*{{NoCo|Adieu! my native shore}}
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*{{NoCo|Caput apri defero}} Christmas carol
*[[Duetto buffo di due gatti (Gioachino Rossini)]] (reattributed)
*{{NoCo|For all our men were very, very merry}}
*{{NoCo|Great God of Love}}
*{{NoCo|Lay a garland}}
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*{{NoCo|Light of my soul}}
*{{NoCo|No, no, Nigella}}
*{{NoCo|O who will o'er the downs so free}}
*{{NoCo|Sir Patrick Spens}}
*{{NoCo|Take, O take those lips away}}
*{{NoCo|There is a paradise}}
*{{NoCo|When Allen-a-Dale went a-hunting}}
*{{NoCo|Who shall have my lady fair?}}
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'''Church works'''
*{{NoCo|Ave verum corpus}}
*{{NoCo|In dulci jubilo}} (macaronic)
*{{NoCo|Salve Regina}}
*{{NoCo|Tu es Petrus}} (contrafactum of ''Lay a garland'')
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===Works yet to be added===
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*A Chieftain to the Highlands bound
*A King there was in Thule
*Down in my garden
*How bright in Maytime
*I saw lovely Phillis
*It was upon a Spring-tide day
*Laugh not, my youth, at age
*Let us all go Maying
*List! Lady, be not coy
*Mihi est propositium
*Nymphs are sporting
*O! all ye ladies fair and true
*O ye roses
*Purple glow the forest mountains
*See how smoothly
*Shoot, false love, I care not
*Sing we and chaunt it
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*Summer is y' coming in
*Sweet as a flower in May
*The Bishop of Mentz
*Take heed, ye shepherds swains
*The hardy Norseman's house of yore
*The praise of good wine
*The red wine flows
*The River Spirit's Song
*The Song of the Frank companies
*The Watchman's Song
*The Winter Song
*War Song of the Norman Baron Taillefer
*Waters of Elle
*When last I strayed
*Why do the roses
*Why should the cuckoo's tuneful note
*Why weep, alas, my lady-love
*Why with toil thy life consuming
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===Secular works===
====Mixed Voices====
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====Male Voices====
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===Vocal Duet===
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==Publications==
==Publications==
==External links==
==External links==
{{IMSLP}}
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Latest revision as of 07:59, 28 November 2023

Life

Born: 14 March 1795

Died: 5 August 1856

Biography Robert Lucas Pearsall was born at Clifton Hill, Bristol, into a wealthy Quaker family. His father was an army officer and amateur musician. He was privately educated and practiced as a barrister in Bristol. In 1825, after suffering a stroke, he took his family to live abroad—first to Mainz, then to Karlsruhe (1830), studying mensural notation with the caecilian Caspar Ett (Munich 1832). He sold the family estate in Willsbridge and, in 1842, bought Wartensee CastleLink to the German Wikipedia article, a ruined medieval keep near Rorschach in Switzerland and spent several years restoring it. He remained there until his death. Pearsall was an amateur composer and many of his compositions were not published until after his death. He is best remembered for his part-songs, many of which were madrigals. He also wrote orchestral works, anthems, services, musical treatises, and edited a Catholic hymnal. His extensive writings encompass works on chant, heraldry, and verse translations of Schiller & Goethe. He kept in touch with his home city of Bristol and wrote many pieces for the Bristol Madrigal Society. He also composed poetry, some of which he used for his madrigals, such as ‘Why Do the Roses’ and ‘Why should the cuckoo’s tuneful note’. The particle “de” often spelled in his name is a feature added after his death by his daughter Philippa.

A ms. copy in Pearsall's hand is exhibit A in proposing him as a plausible suspect for the anonymous composer of 'Rossini's Cat Duet'.

View the Wikipedia article on Robert Lucas Pearsall.

Works

Sacred works

Secular works

Mixed Voices

Male Voices

Vocal Duet


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Settings of text by Robert Lucas Pearsall

Publications

External links

Works by Robert Lucas Pearsall in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)