GREENE, Maurice.
Forty select Anthems in Score composed for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 Voices … Volume first [–second].
London. J. Walsh, 1743.
Folio, pp. [10], [2, engraved table], 138, [2, advertisement (Smith 8)]; [2], [2, engraved table], 155, [1]; engraved throughout apart from the title-pages, dedication, imprimatur leaf and list of subscribers; a good copy, some gatherings coming loose, in very worn contemporary reversed calf, front cover lettered ‘Contratenor Cantoris / Eton College’, covers scraped, spine wanting, old leather strips at head and foot.
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Forty select Anthems in Score composed for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 Voices … Volume first [–second].
First edition. Greene was organist and composer to the Chapels Royal, and an admirer and sometime friend of Handel (their friendship expiring on the occasion of Handel’s quarrel with Buononcini). Forty Select Anthems, setting Psalms and other Biblical texts, is ‘the work on which his reputation mainly rests’ (Grove). Several anthems, such as ‘God is our hope and strength’, ‘I will sing of Thy power’, and ‘Lord, let me know mine end’, still find a place in cathedral services.
BUC, p. 399; Smith and Humphries 730; RSIM G 3736 or 3737?.
