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Samuel Wesley: Sonatina, Op.4 No.10 (Pastorale)

3,593 views · Published 23 December 2015 · 1:30 · Indexed 27 October 2026

Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays a short piece by the British composer and organist Samuel Wesley (1766–1837)
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I recorded this piece for a viewer, as it is used for teaching purposes in Korea and maybe elsewhere.  Wesley was the son of the Methodist hymn-writer Charles Wesley, and nephew of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist church.  However, he probably did not endear himself to the Methodists when, in 1810, he scandalously left his (allegedly difficult) wife Charlotte for his sixteen year old servant, Sarah Suter, with whom he set up home and had nine children, including the composer Samuel Sebastian Wesley.  Samuel Wesley wrote in many genres, and was even nicknamed 'the English Mozart'.  This piece comes from a set of 12 single-movement sonatinas written circa 1798.

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