BENJAMIN YARNOLD

Benjamin Yarnold (b. England, ca. 1728; d. Charleston, S.C., 16 June 1787), a composer and organist, was invited in 1753 to become organist at St. Philip's Anglican Church in Charleston. He was dismissed from that position in 1764. He then served as organist at Charleston's St. Michael's Anglican Church until 1768, returned to London until the 1780s, and came back to the St. Michael's post (1784-87).

          Bio-bib, Sonneck-Upton. Also Williams 1952, p. 148-50. Death reported in State Gazette of South-Carolina, 21 June 1787.

ANTHEM AND ODE FOR FOUR VOICES

The Charleston South Carolina Gazette, 13-20 Feb. 1762, advertised for subscriptions to 'an Anthem, an Ode for voices and instruments, composed by Benjamin Yarnold... being the same that was performed before the Ancient Fraternity of Free Masons, at the installation of the Hon. Benjamin Smith, Esq., Grand Master in South Carolina. That each Subscriber, on his receiving an engraved copy of each from London shall pay, or order to be paid, the sum of seven pounds current money, into the hands of Mr. Robert Wells, or Peter Timothy.' (Quoted from Sonneck-Upton, p. 27.) No evidence of publication exists. But even if the work did appear, the compiler's decision to have it engraved and printed in London removes it from the purview of this bibliography.

ASMI p. 631.