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Birth Anniversary: Samuel Wesley — February 24, 1766

24 February 2027
Birth Anniversary: Samuel Wesley — February 24, 1766

Born at Bristol on 24 February 1766. Samuel Wesley 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”, a title however sometimes also attributed to Thomas Linley the younger.

Dates verified on Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Grove Music Online, entry "Samuel Wesley".

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