Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist celebrated for his Irish Melodies. Their setting of English-language verse to old Irish tunes marked the transition in popular Irish culture from Irish to English. Politically, Moore was recognised in England as a press, or "squib", writer for the aristocratic Whigs; in Ireland he was accounted a Catholic patriot. Married to a Protestant actress and hailed as "Anacreon Moore" after the classical Greek composer of drinking songs and erotic verse, Moore did not profess religious piety. Yet in the controversies that surrounded Catholic Emancipation, Moore was seen to defend the tradition of the Church in Ireland against both evangelising Protestants and uncompromising lay Catholics. Longer prose works reveal more radical sympathies. The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald depicts the United Irish leader as a martyr in the cause of democratic reform. Complementing Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, Memoirs of Captain Rock is a saga, not of Anglo-Irish landowners, but of their exhausted tenants driven to the semi-insurrection of "Whiteboyism". Today Moore is remembered almost alone either for his Irish Melodies (typically "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer") or, less generously, for the role he is thought to have played in the loss of the memoirs of his friend Lord Byron. |
Birth and Death Data: Born May 28, 1779 (Dublin), Died February 25, 1852 (Sloperton Cottage)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1897 - 1949
Roles Represented in DAHR: author, composer, lyricist
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Recordings (Results 126-150 of 262 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | [Trial 1914-12-04-05] | Not documented | 12/4/1914 | Bendemeer's stream | Mary Jordan | Male vocal solo, with piano | author | |
Victor | [Trial 1915-02-10-03] | Not documented | 2/10/1915 | Mammy's lullaby | Treble Quartet | Vocal quartet, with piano | author | |
Victor | [Trial 1916-04-12-02] | Not documented | 4/12/1916 | Come ye disconsolate | Flora McGill Keefer | Female vocal solo, with piano | author | |
Victor | [Trial 1918-08-02-06] | Not documented | 8/2/1918 | Last rose of summer | June Byrd | Female vocal solo, with piano | author | |
Victor | [Trial 1923-08-18-01] | 10-in. | 8/18/1923 | Last rose of summer | Dorothy Fox | Female vocal solo, with piano | author | |
Victor | [Trial 1927-07-15-03] | 10-in. | 7/15/1927 | Last rose of summer | Ruth Thomas | Female vocal solo, with piano | author | |
Columbia | 710 | 10-in. | ca. 1902 | The minstrel boy | J. W. Myers | Male vocal solo, with piano | author | |
Columbia | 710 | 7-in. | ca. 1902 | The minstrel boy | Artists vary | Male vocal solo, with piano | author | |
Columbia | 1717 | 10-in. | approximately 1903 | The last rose of summer | Caroline Kendrick | Soprano vocal solo, with piano and violin obbligato | author | |
Columbia | 3211 | 10-in. | ca. Jan.-Sept. 1905 | Bendemeer's stream | George Alexander | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
Columbia | 3364 | 10-in. | between January and April 1906 | Believe me, if all those endearing young charms | George Alexander | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
Columbia | 3484 | 10-in. | between January and September 1906 | The minstrel boy | George Alexander | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
Columbia | 4087 | 10-in. | ca. Jan.-June 1909 | Qui sola vergin rosa | Camille Borello | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
Columbia | 4235 | 10-in. | either 1909 or 1910 | When he who adores thee | Gerald A. Ewing | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
Columbia | 19120 | 10-in. | 11/15/1910 | When love is kind | Clifford Wiley | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
Columbia | 19736 | 10-in. | 1/26/1912 | The minstrel boy | Reed Miller | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
Columbia | 38147 | 10-in. | 7/19/1912 | The harp that once through Tara's halls | Charles Harrison | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
Columbia | 38347 | 10-in. | 10/17/1912 | The last rose of summer | Grace Kerns | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
Columbia | 38380 | 10-in. | 10/25/1912 | Believe me, if all those endearing young charms | Reed Miller | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
Columbia | 38497 | 10-in. | 12/13/1912 | Bendemeer's stream | Andrea Sarto | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
Columbia | 39116 | 10-in. | 11/26/1913 | When love is kind | Maggie Teyte | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
Columbia | 39271 | 10-in. | 3/10/1914 | Believe me if all those endearing young charms | Maggie Teyte | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
Columbia | 39709 | 10-in. | 12/19/1914 | Daughters of Erin | Herbert Stuart | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
Columbia | 39837 | 10-in. | 2/9/1915 | The minstrel boy | Alice Nielsen | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
Columbia | 39839 | 10-in. | 2/10/1915 | The meeting of the waters | Alice Nielsen | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | author |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Moore, Thomas," accessed October 6, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/102361.
Moore, Thomas. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved October 6, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/102361.
"Moore, Thomas." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 6 October 2024.
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LCNAR: Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055409
Wikidata: Thomas Moore - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q315346
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/24616222
MusicBrainz: Thomas Moore - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/68b30416-113c-4c2e-8ca2-9a50a62fd5b7
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