A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Goss, John Jeremiah

GOSS, John Jeremiah, born at Salisbury in 1770, received his musical education as a chorister of the cathedral there, of which he subsequently became a lay vicar. On Nov. 30, 1808, he was appointed a gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and about the same period obtained the places of vicar choral of St. Paul's Cathedral and lay vicar of Westminster Abbey. His voice was a pure alto of beautiful quality, and his skill and taste in part-singing remarkable. He was for many years the principal alto at the Meetings of the Three Choirs. He died in May 1817.

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