Michael Wise

Life

Born: c.1648

Died: 1687

Biography

Wise was one of the first generation of boy choristers to be trained by Captain Henry Cook at the Chapel Royal after the Restoration, a generation which also included John Blow and Pelham Humfrey.

The entry in Cathedral Music, Volume 2 (William Boyce) reads:

Michael Wise, was also of the first Set of Children of the King's Chapel, after the Restauration. His first Preferments were to be Organist, and Master of the Choristers to the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, which he succeeded to April the 29th, 1668; and on January the 6th, 1675-6, he was appointed a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal. He became Almoner, and Master of the Choristers in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London, on January the 27th, 1686, and died at Salisbury in August, 1687. He was one of the three great Geniuses produced from this first Set of Children: Humphrys had but a short Period, but Blow lived many Years after these his School-fellows, to cultivate with Success his uncommon Talent of Modulation.

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List of choral works

• Awake up, my glory
• Awake, put on thy strength
• Blessed is he that considereth the poor
• A Catch on the Midnight Cats
• I charge you, O daughters
• I will sing a new song unto Thee, O God
• Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in D minor
• Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in E flat
• Old Chiron
• Prepare ye the way of the Lord
• Sonnet 146
• Thy beauty, O Israel
• The ways of Zion do mourn

Works not yet added

• Blessed is he that considereth the poor

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