BARNETT, John Francis

J. F. Barnett is one of the leading English composers of the present time. His works are bright, tuneful, and skilfully constructed, while their popularity is such as to place beyond all doubt the place which they hold in the estimation of the public. His minor works, songs, and pianoforte music, possess less merit in an artistic sense than his cantatas, but are not less popular. Of his cantatas The Ancient Mariner is probably the most popular, though all of them...