Talk:The Harmonious Blacksmith

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References in literature
Should there not be a reference to Herbert nicknaming Pip "Handel" in Dickens' Great Expectations? The song is mentioned as the source of the nickname (Pip was a blacksmith), and the novel is certainly a classic. I believe it deserves to be in the article.

The name
Couldn't the name be a simple reference to the Pythagoras legend? Terez27 (talk) 05:29, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Tempo and interpretation
I had to remove a few sentences — There is no metronome markings in the original, so an exact tempo is just speculation. This goes for absolutely all western music made before 1817. Notes on interpretation does not belong on Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oktoberstorm (talk • contribs) 16:48, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

The Nickname Harmonious Blacksmith
I have been doing research on James William Windsor (b. 4 Feb 1776 in London; d. 28 Jan 1853 in Bath), the pricipal organist at Saint Margaret's Proprietary Chapel in Bath, and accomplished professor of the piano forte. Some fairly recently published books, found in Google books through a Google search, say that he was nicknamed "The Harmonious Blacksmith" due to his frequent performances of the air and variations of Handel suite in E major. He apparently already had this nickname by 1798 or so, when he was just 22 years old. He was by that time already the organist at Saint Margaret's and a subscriber to technical musical letters. He was also called "Professor of Music." He had a huge and impressive collection of original musical scores (some of them copied from sources that are no longer extant), which were donated to the Royal College of Music by his eldest daughter after her death in 1890. I have several musical scores that were presented to his niece Louisa Daniels (his wife Alicia was born Daniels), one of which was "The Creation: An Oratorio" Composed by Joseph Haydn Adapted for Voices and Piano Forte by Muzio Clementi, published by Clementi, Banger, Hyde, Collard and Davis in London. Date possibly around 1800. Mrs rockefeller (talk) 03:56, 21 August 2021 (UTC)