Joseph Warren (music editor)
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Joseph Warren (1804–1881) was an English musician and composer, best known as a music editor.
Warren was born in London on 20 March 1804. He first studied the violin, and then the piano and organ under J. Stone. At an early age he ran a society of amateurs, for whom he wrote two symphonies and other vocal and instrumental pieces.[1]
In 1843, Warren was appointed organist of St Mary's Roman Catholic Chapel in Chelsea, London. He took an active part in the revival of early English music.[1]
Late in life Warren fell into poverty, and made piecemeal sales from his library, which included some significant early English manuscripts. Finally he became paralysed, and had support from William Hayman Cummings. He died at Bexley on 8 March 1881. At one time he and Edward Francis Rimbault were close friends, but they became public enemies.[1]
