Solomon Eccles also known as Solomon Eagle (1618 - 1683) was an English composer. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance
Little if any of his works are extant since, when he became a Quaker, he burned all his books and compositions so as to distance himself from church music. Christian music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life His repugnance for the organised church showed in his name for them: "steeple-houses".
Solomon Eagle was mentioned in Daniel Defoe's semi fictional account of the plague of 1665 titled 'A Journal of the Plague Year'. A Journal of the
Defoe wrote: 'I suppose the world has heard of the famous Solomon Eagle, an enthusiast. He, though not infected at all but in his head, went about denouncing of judgment upon the city in a frightful manner, sometimes quite naked, and with a pan of burning charcoal on his head. What he said, or pretended, indeed I could not learn. '] Solomon Eccles was a Quaker, a man prosecuted numerous times during the Restoration for civil disobedience. He would worship with other Quakers. The law that was passed in the early 1660s said that, if more than three people got together in a room for religious worship, this was a seditious, wicked activity. In May 1665, Solomon Eccles was arrested in Southwark, even though he probably lived in the middle of the City of London, and was put away in prison – probably in the Clink on the South Bank – for about two to three months.
Eccles had at least two musical sons, John and Henry. This article is about the English composer for other people with the same name see John Eccles. Henry Eccles (1670 - 1742 was an English Composer. He was the son of Solomon Eccles and the brother of John Eccles.
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