Luigi Merci
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Luigi Merci
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Luigi Merci or Louis Mercy was a composer of the Baroque era. Merci was born around 1695, possibly into a French-English family in England, and died in Hereford in December 1768. He was engaged from 1717 to Lady Day 1719 in the service of James Brydges, Earl of Carnarvon and Duke of Chandos where he played in Handel's band and met early founders of the Freemasons. In 1730 he married Ann Hampshire and settled in Covent Garden. In collaboration with the recorder maker Thomas Stanesby (1692–1754),
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English composer
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2024-01-04T02:58:57Z
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