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JOHN LIPTROT HATTON (1809-1886)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 64 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN LIPTROT See also:HATTON (1809-1886)  , See also:English musical composer, was See also:horn at See also:Liverpool on the 12th of See also:October 1809 . He was virtually a self-taught musician, and besides holding several appointments as organist in Liverpool, appeared as an actor on the Liverpool See also:stage, subsequently finding his way to See also:London as a member of See also:Macready's See also:company at See also:Drury See also:Lane in 1332 . Ten years after this he was appointed conductor at t he s inne i hrutre for a See also:series of English operas, and in 1843 his own first ooeretta,See also:Queen of the i /hones, wasgiven with success . Staudigl. the eminent See also:German See also:bass, was a member of the company, and at his See also:suggestion See also:Hatton wrote a more ambitious See also:work, See also:Pascal See also:Bruno, which, in a German See also:translation, was presented at See also:Vienna, with Staudigl in the See also:principal See also:part; the See also:opera contained a See also:song, " Revenge," which the basso made very popular in See also:England, though the piece as a whole was not successful enough to be produced here . Hatton's excellent See also:pianoforte playing attracted much See also:attention in Vienna; he took the opportunity of studying See also:counterpoint under Sechter, and wrote a number of songs, obviously modelled on the See also:style of German See also:classics . In 1846 he appeared at the See also:Hereford festival as a See also:singer, and also played a pianoforte See also:concerto of See also:Mozart . He undertook See also:concert See also:tours about this See also:time with See also:Sivori, Vieuxtemps and others . From 1848 to 185o he was in See also:America; on his return he became conductor of the See also:Glee and See also:Madrigal See also:Union, and from about 1853 was engaged at the Princess's See also:theatre to provide and See also:con-duct the See also:music for See also:Charles See also:Kean's Shakespearean revivals . He seems to have kept this apppointment for about five years . In 1856 a See also:cantata, See also:Robin See also:Hood, was given at the See also:Bradford festival, and a third opera, See also:Rose, or Love's See also:Ransom, at Covent See also:Garden in 1864, without much success . In 1866 he went again to America, and from this See also:year Hatton held the See also:post of accompanist at the Ballad Concerts, St See also:James's See also:Hall, for nine seasons . In 1875 he went to See also:Stuttgart, and wrote an See also:oratorio, See also:Hezekiah, given at the Cyrstal See also:Palace in 1877; like all his larger See also:works it met with very moderate success .

Hatton excelled in the lyrical forms of music, and, in spite of his distinct skill in the severer styles of the madrigal, &c., he won popularity by such songs as " To Anthea," " See also:

Good-bye, Sweetheart," and " See also:Simon the Cellarer," the first of which may be called a classic in its own way . His glees and part-songs, such as " When Evening's See also:Twilight," are still reckoned among the best of their class; and he might have gained a See also:place of higher distinction among English composers had it not been for his irresistible See also:animal See also:spirits and a want of See also:artistic reverence, which made it uncertain in his younger days whether, when he appeared at a concert, he would See also:play a See also:fugue of See also:Bach or sing a comic song . He died at See also:Margate on the loth of See also:September 1886 .

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