A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/McMurdie, Joseph

McMURDIE, Joseph, Mus. Bac., born in 1792 in the parish of St. Bride, London, graduated at Oxford in 1814. He composed many glees (principally for the Concentores Sodales) and songs, and made numerous arrangements for the pianoforte. He was for some time a director of the Philharmonic Society. He died at Merton, Surrey, Dec. 23, 1878.

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