Novello

Novello, VINCENT, musical composer and publisher, was born in London, of an Italian father and English mother, on 6th September 1781. He officiated as organist in various chapels in London, and was one of the founders of the Philharmonic and similar musical societies. His musical compositions, chiefly sacred, are considered to have contributed much to the improvement of cathedral music. But it is as a painstaking editor of unpublished works of eminent musicians that he deserves chiefly to be remembered. He died at Nice, 9th August 1861.—His daughter, CLARA ANASTASIA, a distinguished vocalist, was born in London in 1818; won great triumphs in the chief cities of Europe; but having in 1843 married Count Gigliucci, she quitted the stage in 1860.