A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Marsh, John

MARSH, John, born at Dorking, 1750, a distinguished amateur composer and performer, resident at Salisbury (1776–81), Canterbury (1781–6), and Chichester (1787–1828), in each of which places he led the band at the subscription concerts and occasionally officiated for the cathedral and church organists. He composed two Services, many anthems, chants, and psalm tunes, glees, songs, symphonies, overtures, quartets, etc., and organ and pianoforte music, besides treatises on harmony, thorough bass, etc. He died in 1828. A fully detailed account of his career is given in the 'Dictionary of Musicians,' 1824, but it does not possess sufficient interest to be repeated here.

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