John Farmer

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John Farmer (1835–1901)

John Farmer (16 August 1835 – 17 July 1901), was a composer, music teacher and organist from Nottingham.

Life

His father, also John (1812–1894) was a butcher and his mother, Mary, a milliner. The eldest of four children, John Farmer was recognised as a child prodigy, playing violin, piano and harp. His uncle Henry Farmer (1819–1891), was also a conductor, composer, violinist and organist in Nottingham. He owned a successful music-warehouse and nurtured his nephew's musical talent.

Between 1849 and 1852, John Farmer studied piano at the Leipzig Conservatory with Ignaz Moscheles , after which he studied for a year in Coburg under Andreas Spaeth, a composer, organist and clarinetist. Farmer returned to England to briefly work in his parents' millinery business, then travelled to Switzerland in 1853, marrying Mary Elizabeth Stahel (1840–1914) in 1859, the daughter of a Zurich schoolteacher, with whom he eventually had 7 children.

His daughter Mary was married to the classicist John Burnet.

John Farmer (composer)

John Farmer (c. 1570 – c. 1601) was a composer of the English Madrigal School. He was born in England around 1570 but his exact date of birth is not known – a 1926 article by Grattan Flood posits a date around 1564 to 1565 based on matriculation records. Farmer was under the patronage of the Earl of Oxford and dedicated his collection of canons and his late madrigal volume to his patron.

In 1595, Farmer was appointed organist and Master of Children at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin and also, at the same time, organist of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. In 1599, he moved to London and published his only collection of four-part madrigals, that he dedicated to Edward de Vere.

His Lord's Prayer is performed widely throughout many Churches and Cathedral's, mostly in Britain. It is included in Volume 2 of Oxford Choral Classics, published by Oxford University Press.

Giles Farnaby dedicated a pavan to him, included in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book as Farmer's Paven (no. CCLXXXVII).