Alla Marcia

Jonathan Battishill (1738-1801) became a chorister at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London at age 11. As a young adult he focused on musical theater, playing harpsichord for the Covent Garden theater and writing theatrical works. His most ambitious composition was a three-act opera, Almena, an English Opera, which he co-wrote with Michael Arne, Thomas Arne’s illegitimate son.