Thomas Wingham (1846-1893) - orchestral and choral works

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Thomas Wingham had numerous orchestral works (including four symphonies) performed at the Crystal Palace and elsewhere.

There is no entry for him in Grove so here is an outline of his career -

1846 - born in London (January 5)
1856 - became organist of St Michael's Mission Church, Southwark
1863 - studied at London Academy of Music
1864 - appointed organist of All Saints' Paddington
1867 - entered RAM, studying under Sterndale Bennett and Harold Thomas
1871 - appointed a professor of the piano at the RAM (later also appointed a professor at the Guildhall School of Music)
1882 - appointed musical director at the oratory, Brompton
1893 - died in London (March 24th)

Wingham was clearly given some highly prestigious performances (Dan Godfrey later played the second Symphony twice at Bournemouth, in 1902 and 1908), and he was also the dedicatee of Stanford's Mass in G, Op.46 (1892), but the bulk of his orchestral and choral works remained in manuscript: in the 1870s his Symphony No.2 and the first Concert Overture were published as piano duets by Lamborn Cock, who also published the Elegy on the Death of Sterndale Bennett as a piano solo; Novello published the Serenade in E flat as a piano duet (1886), whilst Alfred Hays published a reduction of the Concert Capriccio around 1885; vocal scores of the Regina Coeli mass and the Brompton Te Deum were published in 1878 and 1887 (Novello) respectively. BL, RAM and RCM don't appear to have any of Wingham's autograph scores.

Principal works -

1869 - Symphony No.1 in D minor
1872 - Symphony No.2 in B flat, Op.6 (Crystal Palace, London, 23rd March 1872)
           Festal Overture [Concert Overture No.1 in C], Op.8 (Royal Academy of Music, London, 22nd July 1872)
1873 - Symphony No.3 in E minor, with choral finale
1875 - Elegy on the Death of Sterndale Bennett (Crystal Palace, London, 6th March, 1875)
           Eros [Concert Overture No.2 in E] (Crystal Palace, London, 27th November 1875)
1876 - Mass in D, Regina Coeli, Op.14 (Antwerp Cathedral, 1876)
1877 - Concert Overture No.3 in D, choral (Alexandra Palace, London, 10th May 1877)
1878 - Fair Laughs the Morn [Concert Overture No.4 in F] (Crystal Palace, London, 16th February 1878)
1879 - Concert Overture No.5 in A (Brighton Festival, 1879)
1880 - Mors Janua Vita [Concert Overture No.6 in D] (Leeds Festival, 1880)
1883 - Symphony No.4 in D (Crystal Palace, London, 28th April 1883)
1884 - Te Deum, for voices, orchestra and organ (Brompton Oratory, 25th April 1884)
1885 - Serenade in E flat (Philharmonic Society, London, 26th March, 1885)
1887 - Mass (Brompton Oratory, 1887)

Concert Capriccio in E minor for Piano and Orchestra [n.d.]