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Benjamin Rogers (musician)

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In January 1686 Rogers lost his college place at Magdalen. Unpopular with the choir, and a loud talker in the organ loft during services, he was lodging in his rooms his daughter, who was pregnant by the college porter. He was also claiming those rooms were haunted. He took a college pension.
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drove him back to England, and he returned as singingman to Windsor; the choral services there were discontinued around 1644. Occupied with composition and teaching, Rogers maintained himself, with the help of a small government allowance, in the neighbourhood of Windsor.
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Rogers was married to Ann, who survived him by a few months. Their son John, born in 1654, was B.A. 1674, M.A. 1677, and clerk 1674–81.
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Rogers's major works were in collections of cathedral music. Anthems were preserved in college and cathedral libraries.
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Rogers retired to New Inn Hall Lane, Oxford, and died there, aged 84, in 1698. He was buried on 21 June at
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and by his reorganisation of major choirs. In 1662 he was also appointed organist to
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some of Rogers's music, which was performed by her Italian musicians. His
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at Cambridge. For the city banquet given to Charles II to celebrate the
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By 1653, consort music by Rogers was heard at the court of the future
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May Day 2007, crowds gather at Magdalen College, Oxford to hear the
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of 1660, he supplied the music both to a hymn by Ingelo and to
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Rogers won high reputation in England by his music for the
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Index


William Holman Hunt
consort music
liturgical music
anthems
Hymnus Eucharisticus
Magdalen Tower
May Day
Windsor
St. George's Chapel
Nathaniel Giles
lay clerk
Randolph Jewett
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
Irish rebellion of 1641
Oliver Cromwell
Nathaniel Ingelo
Bac. Mus.
English Restoration
Psalm 32
William Child
cornett

Church of England
Eton College
Thomas Pierce
Magdalen College, Oxford
Mus. Doc.
Church of St Peter-le-Bailey
Emperor Leopold

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