The revivification of this composer’s oratorio in 1879 gave rise to much favourable criticism among competent writers, and it was allowed that had Bexfield lived he would have proved an ornament to the English school of church music. Israel Restored is a work of much promise, but cannot be said to be a mature work of genius.
BEXFIELD, William Richard
(1824–1853)> COMP. · ORG.