William Duncombe (composer)

For other people named William Duncombe, see William Duncombe (disambiguation).

William Duncombe (ca. 1736-1738 – 30 November 1818, or 1819)[1] was an English composer. He was an organist in Kensington.[2]

He is mainly known by a few small piano pieces (especially a Sonatina in C Major and the Fanfare or Fanfare Minuet) that are still reprinted in pedagogical collections.[3] They are probably excerpts of the Progressive lessons for the harpsichord and piano forte, published in 1778 (or 1785).

Duncombe is frequently confused with the writer William Duncombe (1690 – 1769).

  1. ^ Sources : LoC, MusicSack
  2. ^ There is a record of a concert he gave there: “Mr. Duncombe, organist of Kensington, most respectfully informs his friends, and the public in general, that his annual concert, of select vocal and instrumental music, is fixed for Tuesday, 30 April 1793: at Edwards's New Assembly Room, Kensington.”
  3. ^ For example: Fanfare: [1], [2], [3]; Sonatina: [4], [5]; both: [6].