EDWIN A. SYDENHAM

Edwin Augustus Sydenham (1847-1891) was born in Beauchamp, Somerset, England. He trained as a choirboy at the Parish Church, Stratford-on-Avon, and studied at Leipzig Conservatorium. He held organist positions at St. Nartin’s, Dorking; St. Andrew’s Farnham; St. James’, Bury St. Edmund’s; and All Saints’, Scarborough. He was active as teacher and performer. Sydenham also invented a patent touch regulator for the pianoforte. He died in Scarborough, Yorkshire. His compositional output includes a number of anthems, an Evening Service, solo piano works, duets for harmonium and piano, pieces for violin and piano, cello and piano, and a number of part-songs.

All are mixed chorus; some contain divisi.

SET	TITLE	VOICING	TEXT	LISTEN
	Hail, golden morn		Edward Oxenford	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Tell me, thou soul of her I love		James Thomson	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The maiden of “Fleur de Lys”		Mary Freer	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The parting kiss		Robert Dodsley	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	When the rosy morn		Frances Brooke	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing