Baroque Music for Brain and Concentration - William Boyce Trio Sonatas (1710-1779)

William Boyce

was an English composer and organist. Boyce was born in London, at Joiners Hall, then in Lower Thames Street, to John Boyce at the time a joiner and cabinet-maker, and beadle of the Worshipful Company of Joiners and Ceilers, and his wife Elizabeth Cordwell. He was baptised on 11 September 1711 and was admitted by his father as a choirboy at St Paul's Cathedral in 1719. After his voice broke in 1727, he studied music with Maurice Greene.

His first professional appointment came in 1734 when he was employed as an organist at the Oxford Chapel in central London. He went on to take a number of similar posts before being appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1755 and becoming one of the organists at the Chapel Royal in 1758.

Boyce is known for his eight symphonies, his anthems and his odes. He wrote the masque Peleus and Thetis and set John Dryden's Secular Masque. He produced incidental music for William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Cymbeline, Romeo and Juliet and The Winter's Tale, and a quantity of chamber music, notably a fine set of twelve trio sonatas. Boyce also composed music for masonic rituals. The Trio Sonatas featured in this collection were published in 1747 as "Twelve Sonatas for two Violins; with a bass for the Violoncello or Harpsichord" – and they were an immediate success.

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