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HENRY LAZARUS (1815–1895)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 314 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:LAZARUS (1815–1895)  , See also:British clarinettist, was See also:born in See also:London on the 1st of See also:January 1815, and was a See also:pupil of Blizard, bandmaster of the Royal Military See also:Asylum, See also:Chelsea, and subsequently of See also:Charles See also:Godfrey, See also:senior, bandmaster of the See also:Coldstream See also:Guards . He made his first See also:appearance as a soloist at a See also:concert of Mme Dulcken's, in See also:April 1838, and in that See also:year 1 The See also:English See also:Bible does not use See also:Lat . Dives (See also:rich) as a proper name, saying merely " a certain rich See also:man." The See also:idea that Dives was a proper name arose from the See also:Vulgate quidam dives, whence it became a conventional name for a rich man, he was appointed as second See also:clarinet to the Sacred See also:Harmonic Society . From Willman's See also:death in 1840 See also:Lazarus was See also:principal clarinet at the See also:opera, and all the See also:chief festivals and orchestral concerts . His beautiful See also:tone, excellent phrasing and accurate See also:execution were greatly admired . He was See also:professor of the clarinet at the Royal See also:Academy of See also:Music from 1854 until within a See also:short See also:time of his death, and was appointed to See also:teach his See also:instrument at the Military School of Music, See also:Kneller See also:Hall, in 1858 . His last public appearance was at a concert for his benefit in St See also:James's Hall, in See also:June 1892, and he died on the 6th of See also:March 1895 .

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Two sentences from some other unrelated article on the Biblical Lazarus have mysteriously migrated into this entry on Henry Lazarus, the clarinetist. The intrusion consists of the 3rd and 4th sentences in the present article. It begins with the number 1 and ends with a comma. The interloping portion is quoted below: "1 The English Bible does not use Lat. Dives (rich) as a proper name, saying merely " a certain rich man." The idea that Dives was a proper name arose from the Vulgate quidam dives, whence it became a conventional name for a rich man,"
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