Name Thomas Morell | Role Librettist Libretti Alceste | |
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Died February 19, 1784, Turnham Green, London, United Kingdom Books Notes and Annotations on Locke on the Human Understanding | ||
Evesmiling Liberty - Sound an Alarm
Thomas Morell (18 March 1703 – 19 February 1784) was an English librettist, classical scholar, and printer.
Contents
- Evesmiling Liberty Sound an Alarm
- Deeper and deeper still Waft her angels through the skies George
- Life
- Librettos
- References
"Deeper, and deeper still / Waft her, angels, through the skies" - George
Life
He was born in Eton, Buckinghamshire and educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge (BA, 1726, MA, 1730 and DD, 1743).
He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and in 1768 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society as a "Rector of Buckland in Hertfordshire, Author of the Greek Thesaurus lately published, and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a Gentleman well skilled in Natural History and every branch of Polite Literature".
He was appointed Garrison Chaplain at Portsmouth barracks in 1775.
Morell wrote the longest and most detailed surviving account of collaboration with Handel.
He died in 1784 and was buried in Chiswick, London.
Librettos
He is best known as the librettist of the following of George Frideric Handel's oratorios: