A lytell geste of Robin Hode

by Edward Francis Rimbault, Francis Douce, William Hone

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About the author

Born: June 13, 1816, So­ho, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Died: Sep­tem­ber 26, 1876, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Rimbault played the or­gan at the St. Pe­ter’s, Vere Street; St. John’s Wood Pres­by­ter­i­an Church; and the Swiss Church in So­ho, Lon­don. He helped found the Mu­sic­al Ant­i­quar­i­an So­ci­e­ty in 1840, and com­posed op­er­et­tas and pop­u­lar and re­li­gious mu­sic. He once re­ceived—and de­clined—a po­si­tion as pro­fess­or of mu­sic at Har­vard Colle­ge. His works in­clude:

The Organ: Its His­to­ry and Con­struct­ion, with Ed­ward Hop­kins, 1855
Early Eng­lish Or­gan Build­ers and Their Works, 1865

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Edward Francis Rimbault (1816 - 1876), English organist and author. Some of his historical musical anthologies were published by the Percy Society.

Co-founded the Musical Antiquarian Society in 1840.
Composed new tune for Philip Doddridge's O Happy Day, That Fixed My Choice and added the refrain (1854).
Co-authored The Organ: Its History and Construction (1855).
Authored Early English Organ Builders and Their Works (1865).