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Rimbault. — The Huguenot refugee family of Rimbault is associated with music. The first on record was a musical clock-maker of Great St. Andrew’s Street, near the Seven Dials, London. He principally traded to Holland and made (what at that time were called) Twelve-tuned Dutchmen-clocks which played twelve tunes, having moving figures in front, and landscape scenery behind. He gave employment to a German, Johan Zoffany, as a clock-face painter. Zoffany painted on canvas a portrait of Mr. Rimbault, which was most successful, and laid the foundation of that artist’s success and fame. Rimbault had an apprentice named Audinet, father of Mr. Philip Audinet, an esteemed engraver.[1] A nephew of the clock-maker was Stephen Francis Rimbault, of 9 Denmark Street, Soho, organist of the Church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields for forty years; the date of his death was about 1834. His distinguished son, Edward Francis Rimbault, was born in Soho on 13th June 1816, and he at the age of sixteen became organist of the Swiss Church, Soho, where he imbibed his taste for ancient music. He was the pupil of his father and of Samuel Wesley. At the age of eighteen he undertook the support of his widowed mother and his younger brothers and sisters. At the age of twenty-two, i.e., in 1838, he came into public notice by a course of lectures on the History of Music in England. In the year 1840 he was chosen by acclamation to be Secretary, both of the Musical Antiquarian Society and of the Percy Society — both which societies were founded in that year with his active co-operation. In 1844 the Handel Society was founded, and he was placed upon its committee, and edited the oratorios of the “Messiah,” “Saul,” and “Samson.” About the same time he brought out numerous books of music for choral services in the Church of England. In 1842 he had become F.S.A. and Member of the Academy of Music at Stockholm. He arranged the collection of ancient music in the Music School of Oxford, and received the degree of LL.D. from that university in 1848. He was a member of the Council of the Camden Society.
Dr. Rimbault’s life was most industrious and serviceable. He was a teacher of music. He also occasionally ventured on musical composition. His song beginning:—
“Happy land! happy land! whate’er my fate in life may be,”
was for a long time “to be heard, sung and played, morning, noon, and night in every street in London.” He was a zealous contributor to Notes and Queries and to Leisure Hour. He was proficient not only in musical lore but also in general literature, and had a valuable library always at the service of students. He died after a lingering illness on 26th September 1876, aged sixty, and his widow did not survive for quite a year. Many well-known men had petitioned for a pension for
- ↑ Smith’s “Nollekens and his Times.”
