Thomas Ebdon
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Thomas Ebdon (1738–1811) was a British composer and organist born in Durham. He was a chorister at Durham Cathedral and became the organist there at the age of 35 (1763) after some wrangling between the Chapter and Dean. He died in office.[1] 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.[2]
[edit] References
- Bumpus, T. Francis (1905-06) The Cathedrals of England and Wales. 3 vols. London: T. Werner Laurie
- Wollenberg, Susan; McVeigh, Simon (eds.) (2004) Concert Life in Eighteenth-century Britain. Aldershot: Ashgate ISBN 0754638685
- "Thomas Ebdon". ChoralWiki database. http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Thomas_Ebdon.
