William Tuckey

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William Tuckey was born in Sommersetshire, England in 1708 and died September 14th, 1781. [1] He emigrated to New York City in 1754 [2] and is one of the first American composers.[3] He was also a choir master and organist. William Tuckey debuted Handel's Messiah in the Americas for the first time in 1770.[4][5]


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  1. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=vLAiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA160&lpg=PA160&dq=william+tuckey+composer+born&source=web&ots=nOvB0774A1&sig=fk5Bwikrb5qde7gMuFipfzBHGnw&hl=en Early Concert-life in America (1731-1800) By Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, Published 1907 by Breitkopf & Härtel
  2. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9F02E4DA1F30E233A25752C2A96F9C946697D6CF&oref=slogin American Music a Century Ago by Richard Aldrich, September 21, 1907 New York Times
  3. ^ http://www.voxnovus.com/resources/American_Composer_Timeline.htm Amercian Composer Timeline
  4. ^ http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=5487 From A History of American Classical Music By Barrymore Laurence Scherer Published: March 5, 2008 by NewMusicBox
  5. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=-pbKjje254AC&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=william+tuckey+composer&source=web&ots=el9OApq-z2&sig=q1wHBCjlEt2bmh5rrA4SipuWUfU&hl=en The Cambridge History of American Music By David Nicholls Contributors David Nicholls, Kate V Keller, and Jacqueline C Djedje Published 1998 by Cambridge University Press
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