William Boyce
Boyce wrote songs for Vauxhall Gardens.  Many people would have heard these songs.  He became composer to the Chapel Royal in 1736.  This was a great honour.  He wrote several big works, although we do not know much about them or about their performances.  Some time during the 1740s he composed a theatre work called The Secular Masque.  The words were by John Dryden.  In 1749 he was given the title of Doctor of Music after a performance of his anthem O be joyful.