See also:

• ARTHUR (Fr. Arius)
• ARTHUR, CHESTER ALAN (1830 – 1886)

ARTHUR See also:

• GORING, GEORGE GORING, LORD (1608-1657)

GORING See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• ARTHUR GORING THOMAS (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

THOMAS (1850-1892)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English musical composer. was the youngest son of See also:

• FREEMAN
• FREEMAN, EDWARD AUGUSTUS (1823-1892)

Freeman See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas and Amelia, daughter of See also:

• COLONEL (derived either from Lat. column, Fr. colonne, column, or Lat. corona, a crown)

Colonel Thomas See also:

• FREDERICK
• FREDERICK (Mod. Ger. Friedrich; Ital. Federigo; Fr. Frederic and Federic; M.H.G. Friderich; O.H.G. Fridurih, " king or lord of peace," from O.H.G. fridu, A.S. frith, " peace," and rfh " rich," " a ruler," for derivation of which see HENRY)

Frederick . He was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Ratton See also:

• PARK (Fr. part; Ital. parco; Sp. Marque; O.Eng. pearroc; connected with Ger. pferch, fold, and pfarrei, district, translating med. Lat. parochia, parish)
• PARK, EDWARDS AMASA (1808–1900)
• PARK, MUNGO (1771-1806?)

Park, See also:

• SUSSEX
• SUSSEX, EARLS OF
• SUSSEX, KINGDOM OF (SO Seaxe, i.e. the South Saxons)
• SUSSEX, THOMAS RADCLYFFE [or RATCLYFFE], 3RD EARL OF (c. 1525-1583)

Sussex, on the loth of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1850, and educated at Haileybury See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College . He was intended for the See also:

• CIVIL

Civil Service, but delicate See also:

• HEALTH

health interfered with his studies, and in 1873 he went to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris to cultivate the musical See also:

• TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental

talent he had displayed from an See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age . Here he studied for two years with £mile See also:

• DURAND, ASHER BROWN (1796-1886)
• DURAND, GUILLAUME (d. 1334)
• DURAND, GUILLAUME (GUILLELMUS DURANDUS)

Durand . In 1875 he returned to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, and in 1877 entered the Royal See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy of See also:

• MUSIC

Music, where for three years he studied under Ebenezer See also:

• PROUT, SAMUEL (1783–1852)
• PROUT, WILLIAM (1785-1850)

Prout and See also:

• ARTHUR (Fr. Arius)
• ARTHUR, CHESTER ALAN (1830 – 1886)

Arthur See also:

• SULLIVAN, JOHN (1740–1795)
• SULLIVAN, SIR ARTHUR SEYMOUR (1842—1900)
• SULLIVAN, THOMAS BARRY (1824-1891)

Sullivan, winning twice the See also:

• LUCAS, CHARLES (1713–1771)
• LUCAS, JOHN SEYMOUR (1849– )
• LUCAS, SIR CHARLES (d. 1648)

Lucas See also:

• MEDAL (Fr. medaille, from Lat. metallum)

medal for See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition . At a later See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period he received some instruction in orchestration from Max See also:

• BRUCH, MAX (1838– )

Bruch . His first published composition was a See also:

• SONG

song, " Le Roi See also:

• HENRI

Henri," which appeared in 1871 . An early comic See also:

• OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera, See also:

• DON
• DON (anc. Tanais)

Don Braggadocio (libretto by his See also:

• BROTHER

brother, C . I . Thomas), was apparently unfinished; some of the music in it was afterwards used for The See also:

• GOLDEN

Golden See also:

• WEB (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Du. webbe, Dan. vaev, Ger. Gewebe, all from the Teutonic wabh—to weave)

Web . A selection from his second opera, The See also:

• LIGHT

Light of the See also:

• HAREM

Harem (libretto by See also:

• CLIFFORD
• CLIFFORD, JOHN (1836- )
• CLIFFORD, WILLIAM KINGDON (1845-1879)

Clifford See also:

• HARRISON
• HARRISON, BENJAMIN
• HARRISON, FREDERIC (1831— )
• HARRISON, JOHN (1693—1776)
• HARRISON, THOMAS (16o6-166o)
• HARRISON, THOMAS ALEXANDER (1853– )
• HARRISON, WILLIAM (1534–1593)
• HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY (1773–1841)

Harrison), was performed at the Royal Academy of Music on the 7th of November 1879, with such success that Carl See also:

• ROSA, CARL AUGUST NICHOLAS (1843-1889)
• ROSA, MONTE
• ROSA, SALVATOR (1615-1673)

Rosa commissioned him to write II Esmeralda (libretto by T . Marzials and A .

Randegger), which was produced at See also:

• DRURY, SIR WILLIAM (1527-1579)

Drury See also:

• LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM (1801–1876)
• LANE, JAMES HENRY (1814–1866)

Lane on the 26th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1883 . Two years later it was given (in See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German) at See also:

• COLOGNE (Ger. Koln, or officially, since 1900, Coln)

Cologne and See also:

• HAMBURG

Hamburg, and in 1890 (in See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French) at Covent See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden . On the 16th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1885 Rosa produced at Drury Lane Thomas's See also:

• FOURTH

fourth and best opera, Nadeshda (libretto by See also:

• JULIAN (FLAVIUS CLAUDIUS JULIANUS) (331-363)

Julian See also:

• STURGIS, RUSSELL (r836-1909)

Sturgis); a German version of which was given at See also:

• BRESLAU (Polish Wraclaw)

Breslau in 1890 . A fifth opera, The Golden Web (libretto by F . Corder and B . C . See also:

• STEPHENSON, GEORGE (1781–1848)
• STEPHENSON, O
• STEPHENSON, ROBERT (1803-1859)

Stephenson), slighter than its predecessors, was produced (after the composer's See also:

• DEATH

death) at See also:

• LIVERPOOL
• LIVERPOOL, EARLS
• LIVERPOOL, EARLS OF

Liverpool, Feb . 15, and at the Lyric See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

Theatre, See also:

• LONDON

London, See also:

• MAR, EARLDOM OF
• MAR, JOHN ERSKINE, 1ST OR 6TH EARL OF (d. 1572)
• MAR, JOHN ERSKINE, 2ND OR 7TH EARL
• MAR, JOHN ERSKINE, 6TH OR 11TH EARL OF (1675-1732)

Mar . 11, 1893 . Besides these dramatic See also:

• WORKS

works Thomas's See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief compositions were a See also:

• PSALM (from the Gr. word * hXAew, to play the harp)

psalm, " Out of the Deep," for See also:

• SOPRANO (a variant of Ital. sovrano, supreme, sovereign, Late Lat. superanus, from super, above)

soprano See also:

• SOLO, OR SOLO WHIST

solo and See also:

• CHORUS (Gr. xopbs)Z

chorus (London, 1878); a choral See also:

• ODE (Gr. uiSri, from aei&ew, to sing)

ode, " The See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

Sun Worshippers " (See also:

• NORWICH
• NORWICH, GEORGE GORING, EARL OF (1583?-1663)

Norwich, 1881), and a See also:

• SUITE (Suite de pieces; Ordre; Partita)

suite de See also:

• BALLET

ballet for See also:

• ORCHESTRA (Fr. Orchestre; Ger. Kapelle, Orchester; Ital. Orchestra)

orchestra (See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge, 1887) . A See also:

• CANTATA (Italian for a song or story set to music)

cantata, The See also:

• SWAN (A. S. swan and swan, Icel. svanr, Du. zwaart, Ger. Schwan)
• SWAN, J
• SWAN, JOHN MACALLAN (1847-1910)
• SWAN, SIR JOSEPH WILSON (1828– )

Swan and the Skylark, was found in See also:

• PIANOFORTE (Ital. piano, soft, and forte, loud)

pianoforte See also:

• SCORE (O.E. scor, from sceran, to cut, notch, cf. " shear ")

score among his See also:

• MSS

MSS. after his death: it was orchestrated by C . See also:

• VILLIERS, CHARLES PELHAM (1802-1898)

Villiers See also:

• STANFORD, SIR CHARLES VILLIERS (1852– )

Stanford, and produced at the See also:

• BIRMINGHAM

Birmingham Festival of 1894 .

His See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

minor compositions include over too songs and duets . In 1891 Thomas became engaged to be married; shortly afterwards he showed signs of See also:

• MENTAL

mental disease, and his career came to a tragic end on the 2oth of March 1892 . He was buried in See also:

• FINCHLEY

Finchley See also:

• CEMETERY (Gr. Korrsnri7pwv, from Hoiµav, to sleep)

cemetery . See also:

• GORING, GEORGE GORING, LORD (1608-1657)

Goring Thomas occupies a distinct See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place among English composers of the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . His music, which shows traces of his early French training, reveals a See also:

• GREAT

great talent for dramatic composition and a real See also:

• GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift of refined and beautiful See also:

• MELODY (Gr. ,ueXw3ia, a choral song, from name, tune, and gi6i, song)

melody . Personally the most amiable of men, he was most See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical of his own See also:

• WORK

work, never attempting anything for which he See also:

• FELT (cognate with Ger. Filz, Du. vilt, Swed. and Dan. fill; the root is unknown; the word has given Med. Lat. filtrum, " filter ")

felt he was unfitted, and constantly revising and rewriting his compositions . (W . B .