Latrobe, Christian Ignatius (1757-1836)

English clergyman and composer. He studied at the college of the Moravian Brethren at Niesky in Upper Lusatia and in 1795 became secretary of the English branch. He dedicated three sonatas to Haydn, with whom he made friends during the latter's visits to England. He edited Moravian hymn-tunes and six volumes of German and Italian church music.

Works Dies irae (1823), Te Deum, Miserere (1814), anthems and other church music; instrumental sonatas; airs to poems by Cowper and Hannah More.