Then, adopting music as a profession, he studied the French horn and trumpet with his father, and soon appeared in public as a player of those instruments.
Acting on medical advice, he abandoned the wind instruments, and studied the violoncello under Schetky (who married his sister), and the violin under Aragoni.
Returning to London, he took a prominent position in the chief orchestras, and was principal cello at the Salomon concerts under Haydn, who showed him much kindness.
Engaged to play at the Oxford concerts, he was so well received that he settled in the city and died there in November 1825, aged 62 or 63.
[3] A son, Alexander Robert Reinagle, musician, born at Brighton on 11 August 1799, was from 1823 to 1853 organist of St. Peter's-in-the-East, Oxford, and died at Kidlington, Oxfordshire, where he was buried on 6 April 1877.