Charles Quarles

Charles Quarles (d. 1727), organist, is of unknown parentage and background, though it is assumed, on account of his profession and unusual name, that he was the son of Charles Quarles (d. 1717), organist of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was appointed organist of York Minster on 30 June 1722 with an annual salary of £40 and during his brief period of office was paid on several occasions for copying music into the minster organ books and partbooks. Given that the last (and indirect) payment to Quarles in the York Minster accounts was made on 7 October 1727 and that a Charles Quarles was buried in All Saints', Cambridge, on 21 October 1727, it is probable that the death of the York organist occurred at Cambridge. A sonata for unspecified treble instrument (probably a flute) and basso continuo, attributed to Carlo Quarlesi, can be found in a manuscript in the library of Durham Cathedral. This was copied by Edward Finch, a canon of York Minster, who also copied ‘Mr Quarles way of Fingering in Gamut natural’, which survives in a manuscript in Glasgow University Library. An anthem, "Out of the deep", remains in manuscript in the library of Worcester Cathedral; it was printed in 1775 in the Cathedral Magazine, where it is ascribed to "Mr Quarles, late Organist at York".

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