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Nicholas Staggins

1650 – 1700

English composer

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Lived 1650 – 1700 (aged 49–50). Nicholas Staggins was an English and British composer and music professor.

Nicholas Staggins (died 13 June 1700 ) was an English composer.

Staggins first studied music under his father. He was made Master of the King's Music by Charles II in 1674. In 1682, he was granted a musical doctorate by Cambridge University, and from 1684 until his death was Professor of Music at Cambridge. Following his death on the night of 12–13 June 1700, he was succeeded by John Eccles.

From the few fragments of his compositions that survive, his musical ability is generally regarded to have been slender. His most significant work was his music for John Crowne's masque Calisto, or The Chaste Nymph. His other works include odes for the birthdays of William III (in at least 1693, 1694 and 1696). He also wrote incidental music for John Dryden's Conquest of Granada and Marriage à la Mode, George Etheridge's The Man of Mode, Nathaniel Lee's Gloriana, and Thomas Shadwell's Epsom Wells.

In Tom Brown's Letters from the Dead to the Living, Staggins is described as "bandy legged and contemptuously regarded". Following his death he was buried in Woollon on 16 June 1700 at St. George's Chapel, Windsor.

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Born
1650
Birth century
Education
University of Cambridge
Positions held
Master of the King's Music, Professor of Music, Cambridge University
Employers
University of Cambridge

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Who was Nicholas Staggins?

English composer

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Nicholas Staggins was born in 1650.

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Nicholas Staggins died on 13 June 1700.

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Nicholas Staggins was a composer and music professor.

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Nicholas Staggins was English and British.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Nicholas Staggins

· Wikidata: Q7026249

· DBpedia: Nicholas Staggins

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