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BASTON, John

Flourished 1708–39

  • Baston was an English composer, recorder player, and cellist.1
  • He often performed with his brother, violinist Thomas Baston (fl. 1708-27), with orchestras and in theaters in London and Greenwich.2
  • One of Baston’s compositions appeared in a 1750 flute music collection edited by John Simpson, entitled Delightful Pocket Companion.3

Sources

  1. Owain Edwards and David Lasocki, “Baston, John,” Grove Music Online (Oxford University Press, 2001), accessed July 18, 2019,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000002288.
  2. Ibid.
  3. Geoffrey Crankshaw, liner notes to Händel, Babell, Baston: Recorder Concertos; Gordon Jacob: Suite for Recorder, Michala Petri, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Kenneth Sillito, Phillips 411056-2, CD, 1983.

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