CHILD, William

Child’s compositions are very simple in general style, and his counterpoint has the appearance of having been the production of a century later. At times, however, as in his service in D, his harmony was rich, glowing, and closely worked. Some few of his full anthems, without any great depth of science or elevation of genius, possess a great degree of warmth, and exhibit imagination. He paved at his own expense the body of Windsor Chapel, and was otherwise charitable...