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Samuel Wesley
1837Oct, 11

Samuel Wesley

Samuel Wesley, English organist and composer (b. 1766)
Samuel Wesley (24 February 1766 – 11 October 1837) was an English organist and composer in the late Georgian period. Wesley was a contemporary of Mozart (1756–1791) and was called by some "the English Mozart".

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