Francis William Galpin

Francis William Galpin, 1906.

Francis William Galpin (December 25, 1858 – December 30, 1945) was an English cleric and antiquarian musicologist.[1] He was known as a collector of old musical instruments.[2]

Life

Born in Dorchester, Dorset, Galpin was educated at Sherborne and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied organ under Sterndale Bennett. He was ordained in the Church of England in 1883, became as a recent graduate of that year curate at Redenhall with Harleston in Norfolk; and went on to be a curate at St Giles in the Fields, London.[1][3]

As vicar of Hatfield Regis in Essex during the 1890s, Galpin organised concerts with instruments from his collection, including recorders, lutes and serpents.[4] Subsequently, he was vicar at Witham, and then Faulkbourne.[1] Galpin also served as President of the Essex Archaeological Society.[5]

His students included Geneviève Thibault de Chambure.[6]

In 1946 the Galpin Society was formed to further his work on musical instruments.[7]

Collection

In 1916, Galpin sold his collection of over 500 antique musical instruments to William Lindsey, who donated them to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in memory of his daughter Leslie Lindsey Mason.[3]

Works

Galpin wrote:[8]

  • Descriptive Catalogue of the European Instruments in the Modern Museum of Art (1902)
  • The Musical Instruments of the American Indians (1903)
  • Notes on the Roman Hydraulus (1904)
  • The Sackbut (1907)
  • Old English Instruments of Music (1910)
  • A Textbook of European Musical Instruments (1937)
  • The Music of the Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians (1937)

References

  1. ^ a b c Myers, Arnold. "Galpin, Francis William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/55321. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Godman, Stanley (1959). "Francis William Galpin: Music Maker". The Galpin Society Journal. 12: 8–16. doi:10.2307/841942. ISSN 0072-0127.
  3. ^ a b Don Michael Randel (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard University Press. p. 293. ISBN 978-0-674-37299-3.
  4. ^ Harry Haskell (January 1996). The Early Music Revival: A History. Courier Corporation. pp. 32–3. ISBN 978-0-486-29162-8.
  5. ^ "Essex Society for Archaeology and History". Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  6. ^ Harry Haskell (January 1996). The Early Music Revival: A History. Courier Corporation. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-486-29162-8.
  7. ^ Michael Kennedy; Tim Rutherford-Johnson; Joyce Kennedy (15 August 2013). The Oxford Dictionary of Music. OUP Oxford. p. 320. ISBN 978-0-19-957854-2.
  8. ^ Mariano Pérez Gutiérrez (January 1985). Diccionario de la música y los músicos (in Spanish). Ediciones Akal. p. 66. ISBN 978-84-7090-141-6.


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