Career
Samuel showed his musical talent early in life. He played the violin as well as the organ, and worked as a conductor as well as a music lecturer. Many of his best-known compositions were written for the church; they include the motet In exitu Israel. His secular compositions include the five part madrigal O singe unto mie roundelaie set to the well known poem by Thomas Chatterton.
In 1788 Wesley was initiated into freemasonry in the Lodge of Antiquity. \\\The Duke of Sussex appointed him Grand Organist in 1812, but he resigned the appointment in 1818.
Samuel died in 1837 and was buried in St Marylebone Parish Church, London.
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