Frederick Chatterton

Frederick Chatterton was born at Portsmouth in 1812, the son of Mary née Callow (1779-1844) and John Chatterton (1778-), 'professor of music' who with his wife had eight sons and three daughters.{{cite web|url=http://chatterton.org.uk/jc180471.htm |title=John Balsir Chatterton |publisher=chatterton.org.uk |accessdate=27 September 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140619230944/http://chatterton.org.uk/jc180471.htm |archivedate=19 June 2014 }} Earlier in life John Chatterton had inherited and spent a large fortune and not wanting the same thing to happen to his sons decided that at least three of them should become successful harpists. Two, the oldest and youngest - John Balsir Chatterton and Frederick Chatterton, followed their father's wishes. However, Edward Andrew Chatterton (c1809–1875), the second son, did not wish to follow his father's plan and instead became, at various times, a music publisher, a seller of musical instruments and a front of house manager at Sadler's Wells Theatre. Frederick Chatterton's older brother John Balsir Chatterton was harpist to Queen Victoria. Like his brother before him, Frederick came to London where he studied the harp under Bochsa and Labarre.[https://www.reidconcerts.music.ed.ac.uk/performer/chatterton-frederick-1814-1894 Frederick Chatterton, 1814-1894: Reid Concerts - Concerts in the University of Edinburgh from 1841] - University of Edinburgh website He was harpist to HRH the Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh and the Royal Courts of France and Belgium, having performed for Louis Philippe I, King of France in a Grand Concert in the Hall of the Marshalls of France in the Tuileries Palace.[https://books.google.com/books?id=4vgsAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA159 The Musical World], Vol 17, E. B. Taylor, London (1842) - Google Books pg. 159 In June 1842 at the Queen's Concerts Rooms in Hanover Square he gave a concert of his own compositions and played in Doncaster in January 1856 where he played his own compositions - 'Highland Ballads', 'Welsh Bardic Illustrations', 'Morceau Fantastique' and 'Partant Pour Le Syrie'.[http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2001/July01/britinst.htm Some British Instrumentalist Composers - Classical Music on the Web]

In March 1847 he played with the Distin Family in two concerts at the Hanover Square Rooms in London,Ray Farr [https://books.google.com/books?id=0-QxBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA333 The Distin Legacy: The Rise of the Brass Band in 19th-Century Britain], Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2013) - Google Books pg. 333 while in February 1861 he played at General Reid's Commemoration Concert at the Reid Concert Hall in Edinburgh in Scotland. In September 1858 Chatterton gave a concert at the Assembly Rooms on Guernsey,[https://www.priaulxlibrary.co.uk/articles/article/september-1858 Visit of Mr Frederick Chatterton - The Priaulx Library] while in July 1862 he played in Cambria, a duet for two pedal harps written by John Thomas, a former student of Chatterton's brother, for a concert of Welsh music at The Crystal Palace with Thomas himself also playing.[https://harpcolumn.com/music/all-music/artists/meinir-heulyn/cambria-pedal-version/ Cambria by John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia) - Harp Column Music website] In March 1870 he played in Madame Laura Baxter's Grand Musical Festival at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, then under the management of his nephew, Frederick Balsir Chatterton,[http://grapevine.com.au/~alanthompson/lindsay_sloper_diary1870.htm Concert Advertisements and Reviews (1870) -Edmund Hugh Lindsay Sloper] while June 1874 saw him playing a harp solo in a concert at the Hanover Square Rooms.[https://www.jstor.org/stable/3354367 The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular], vol. 16, no. 376, 1874, pp. 511–514. JSTOR, Accessed 15 March 2020

In 1835 he married harpist Jane Saxton (1813–1906)[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/2241/32435_239630-00513/3858578?backurl=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/13851445/person/252076576762/facts Dorset, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1921 for Frederick Chatterton; Melcombe Regis, 1813-1921 - Ancestry.com {{subscription required}}] and with her had four children: Josephine Chatterton (1838–1913); Frederick Montague Chatterton (1846–1919); George Chatterton (1848–), and Jane Frederica Chatterton (1851–1895).[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/8860/MDXHO107_1486_1486-0167/2268792?backurl=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/13851445/person/252076576762/facts/citation/802105526103/edit/record 1851 England Census for Frederick Chatterton; Middlesex, St Marylebone, All Souls - Ancestry.com {{subscription required}}]

His daughter Josephine Chatterton was Director of the Chicago Harp College and Professor of Harp at Trinity College London, while his nephew F. B. Chatterton (1834-1886) was the lessee of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane from 1866 to 1879.

• The Dawn of Spring
• Queen Victoria's March
• The Chimes
• Amor! Possente Nome
• Chorloge Des Tuileries
• La Carnaval de Venise
• Non Piu Mesta
• Reminiscences of Bellini
• Rataplan March
• The Nymphs' Revel
• La Premiere Visite aux Tuileries
• The Last Rose of Summer
• Highland Ballads
• Welsh Bardic Illustrations
• Morceau Fantastique
• Partant Pour Le Syrie

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