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PATRICK SARSFIELD GILMORE (1829-1892)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 25 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PATRICK
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SARSFIELD
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GILMORE (1829-1892)  ,
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American bandmaster, was
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born in
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Ireland, and settled in
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America about 185o . He had been in the
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band of an Irish
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regiment, and he had
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great success as
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leader of a military band at
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Salem,
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Massachusetts, and subsequently (1859) in
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Boston . He increased his reputation during the
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Civil
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War, particularly by organizing a
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monster
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orchestra of massed bands for a festival at New
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Orleans in 1864; and at Boston in 1869 and 1872 he gave similar performances . He was enormously popular as a bandmaster, and composed or arranged a large variety of pieces for orchestra .

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