The British Musical Biography

[E] Argent, William Ignatius, organist,
composer, and conductor, born at Colchester,
August 26, 1844. Organist of Little Oratory,
Brompton, 1859-60. Since 1868 resident in
Liverpool and Birkenhead. Organist succes-
sively at St. Lawrence, Birkenhead, and St.
.Anne's TR.C), Edge Hill. Conductor at dif-
ferent periods of musical societies at Widnes,
Frodsham, Garston, and of the St. Cecilia
Society, Liverpool. Musical critic of the
Liverpool Albion, 1873-80, and Mercury, 1886-
90. Contributor to ihe Musical Times and
other papers. One of the founders of the
Liverpool Sunday Society, in connection with
which he has not only delivered lectures, but
organised an orchestra of seventy performers,
and for years given series of Sunday Concerts
in St. George's Hall.

[W] Works.— Mass in A (1875) ; Mass in B flat
(1887) ; Tantum ergo and Salutaris hostia,
for chorus and orchestra; Motets, anthems,
etc. An opera di camera (1863), and other
works in ms. Author of "Half-a-century of
music in Liverpool," 1889.

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