A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Martin, George William
MARTIN, George William, born March 8, 1825 [App. p.711 "1828"], received his early musical education in the choir of St. Paul's cathedral under William Hawes. He has composed many glees, madrigals, and part-songs, for some of which he has been awarded prizes, and has edited and published cheap arrangements of the popular oratorios and other works of Handel, Haydn, and others. For some years he directed performances given under the name of the National Choral Society. He has an aptitude for training choirs of school children, and has conducted many public performances by them. [App. p.711 "he died in great poverty, April 16, 1881 at Bolingbroke House Hospital, Wandsworth."]
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