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WILLIAM VINCENT WALLACE (1814-1865)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 279 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:VINCENT See also:WALLACE (1814-1865)  , See also:British composer, was See also:born at See also:Waterford, See also:Ireland, his See also:father, of Scottish See also:family, being a regimental bandmaster . See also:Vincent See also:Wallace learnt as a boy to See also:play several See also:instruments, and became a leading violinist in See also:Dublin . But in 1835 he married and went off to See also:Australia, See also:sheep farming . A See also:concert in See also:Sydney revived his musical See also:passion; and having separated from his wife, he began a roving career, which had many romantic episodes, in Australia, the See also:South Seas, See also:India and South See also:America . He returned to See also:London in 1845 and made various appearances as a pianist; and in See also:November of that See also:year his See also:opera Maritana was per-formed at 'See also:Drury See also:Lane with See also:great success . This was followed by See also:Matilda of See also:Hungary (1847), Lurline (186o), The See also:Amber See also:Witch (1861), Love's See also:Triumph (1862) and The See also:Desert See also:Flower (1863) . He also published a number of compositions for the piano, &c . Vincent Wallace was a cultivated See also:man and an accomplished musician, whose Maritana still holds he See also:stage, and whose See also:work as an See also:English operatic composer, at a See also:period by no means encouraging to English See also:music, has a distinct See also:historical va'ue . Like See also:Balfe, he was born an Irishman, and his reputation as one of the few composers known beyond the British Isl at that See also:time is naturally coupled with Balfe's . But he was a finer artist and a more See also:original musician . In later years he became almost See also:blind; and he died in poor circumstances on the 12th of See also:October 1865, leaving a widow and two See also:children .

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Balfe, Wallace and a German Born composer Benedict, who also wrote operas in English at that time - The Lily of Killarney - have become known, somewhat colloquillally as The IRISH RING.
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