A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Wanless, Thomas

by William Henry Husk

WANLESS, Thomas, Mus. Bac., was appointed organist of York Cathedral April 18, 1691, and described in the Chapter book as 'in musicis expertum.' He graduated at Cambridge in 1698. In 1703 he published at York a collection of the words of anthems sung in the Cathedral. He composed a Litany, known as 'The York Litany,' no two copies of which exactly agree. Dr. Jebb has printed three different versions in his 'Choral Responses and Litanies.' An anthem by Wanless, 'Awake up, my glory,' is in the Tudway Collection (Harl. MS. 7347). He died in 1721.

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