R. J. S. Stevens

Richard John Samuel Stevens (27 March 1757 – 23 September 1837) was an English composer and organist.

Biography

Stevens was born in London, where, in 1801, he was appointed Gresham Professor of Music.^[1] In 1808 he received yet another appointment, as music master at Christ's Hospital. Besides being valuable in themselves, these appointments helped him to attract the wealthy pupils on whom his living substantially depended.

In 1810 Stevens married Anna Jeffery, after a long courtship; in 1811 they had a son, Richard George, who entered Gray's Inn in 1834. He embarked on the life of a gentleman of leisure, made possible by a substantial bequest from one of his father’s friends in 1817. He died in Peckham near London.

Stevens's chief claim to attention is as a composer of glees. He was not prolific, considering the length of his life; the bulk of his composing was done between 1780 and 1800. Stevens was more careful than many contemporaries in his choice of texts, and devoted special attention to Shakespeare. Of his 15 Shakespearean glees, composed between 1782 and 1807, five are among his best-known pieces: "Ye spotted snakes" (1782, rev. 1791), "Sigh no more, ladies" (1787), "Crabbed age and youth" (1790), "Blow, blow, thou winter wind" (1793) and "The cloud-cap't towers"(1795).

Among Stevens’s compositions that did not outlive him were some anthems, including several for Christ's Hospital; three keyboard sonatas; an opera entitled Emma; and a few songs and hymn tunes. Stevens was a professional member of the Anacreontic Society and it is through his journal accounts that we know that John Stafford Smith wrote their club song "The Anacreontic Song", which, considerably altered and with new words, is now the national anthem of the USA, "The Star-Spangled Banner".

Cultural offices
Preceded by Theodore Aylward, Sr.	Organist of St Michael, Cornhill 1781-1810	Succeeded by George William Arnull
Preceded by John Stanley	Organist of Temple Church 1786-1810	Succeeded by George Price
Preceded by John Jones	Organist of Charterhouse London 1796-1837	Succeeded by William Horsley
Preceded by Theodore Aylward, Sr.	Gresham Professor of Music 1801-1837	Succeeded by Edward Taylor
Preceded by Robert Hudson	Organist of Christ's Hospital 1808-1810	Succeeded by Robert Glenn

Notes

^ "Stevens, Richard John Samuel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26424. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.). The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource: "Stevens, Richard John Samuel" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

External links

Free scores by R. J. S. Stevens in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
Free scores by R. J. S. Stevens at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
Recollections of R. J. S. Stevens: An Organist in Georgian London

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