- William Chappell
William Chappell (
20 November 1809 -20 August 1888 ) was an Englishwriter onmusic , a partner in theLondon musical firms ofChappell & Co. and later,Cramer & Co. He was the eldest son of
Samuel Chappell (d. 1834), who co-founded the business. William Chappell is particularly noteworthy for his starting thePercy Society and theMusical Antiquarian Society (both in 1840), and his publication of the standard work "Popular Music of the Olden Time" (1855-1859) an expansion of a collection of national English airs made by him in 1838-1840. The modern revival of interest in Englishfolk song s owes much to this work, which has since been re-edited by ProfessorH. E. Wooldridge (1893).Chappell was in partnership with the Beale family in the firm of
Cramer & Co. from the 1840s until 1861 [ [http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00272 Chappell, W. (William), 1809-1888, compiler] ,Harvard College Library] . His brother, Thomas Patey Chappell (d. 1902) largely extended the publishing business ofChappell & Co. , and started (1859) the Monday and Saturday Popular Concerts atSt James Hall , which were successfully managed by a younger brother,Samuel Arthur Chappell , till they came to an end towards the close of the century.References
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