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3 unusual facts about Vincent Novello


Sophie Weber

She was also interviewed by Vincent and Mary Novello in 1829 during the journey they undertook to gather information about Mozart.

Vincent Novello

Four of his daughters (of whom the eldest, Mary (1809–1898), married Charles Cowden Clarke) were gifted singers; but the most famous was Clara Novello (1818–1908), whose beautiful high soprano and pure style made her one of the greatest vocalists, in opera as well as in oratorio and on the concert stage, from 1833 onwards.

Lincoln's Inn Fields, where he learnt the organ; and from 1796 to 1822 he became in succession organist of the Sardinian, Spanish (in Manchester Square) and Portuguese (in South Street, Grosvenor Square) chapels, and from 1840 to 1843 of St Mary's chapel, Moorfields.



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