Charles Edward Horsley

HORSLEY, Charles Edward. b. London, 16 December 1822; d. New York, 28 February 1876. He was the son of William Horsley*, composer of the tune for ‘There is a green hill far away’*. He studied with Ignace Moscheles, and then (on Mendelssohn’s recommendation) with Moritz Hauptmann in Kassel (1839). After two years in Leipzig (1841-43), where he came to know Mendelssohn* and his circle, he returned to England, where he worked as a teacher and composer, first in London, and then (probably in 1850) in Liverpool. He was appointed organist of St John the Evangelist, Notting Hill (1853-57). He left for Australia, ca. 1866, where he became organist of Christ Church, South Yarra, Melbourne, and then...