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MICHAEL ROPHINO LACY (1795–1867)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 57 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MICHAEL ROPHINO
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LACY (1795–1867)  , Irish musician, son of a
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merchant, was
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born at
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Bilbao and appeared there in public as a violinist in 18or . He was sent to study in
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Paris under
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Kreutzer, and soon began a successful career, being known as " Le
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Petit Espagnol." He played in
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London for some years after 18o5, and then became an actor, but in 1818 resumed the musical profession, and in 1820 became
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leader of the
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ballet at the
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King's
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theatre, London . He composed or adapted from other composers a number of operas and an
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oratorio, The Israelites in
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Egypt . He died in London on the loth of
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September 1867 .

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