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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 1-25 of 262 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Berliner | 1645 | 7-in. | Nov. 1897 | The harp that once thro’ Tara’s halls | Artists vary | Male vocal solo | author | |
Berliner | 1773 | 7-in. | 11/7/1897 | Believe me if all those endearing young charms | J. W. Myers | Male vocal solo | author | |
Berliner | 1790 | 7-in. | Before Sept. 1897 | Farewell, but whenever you welcome the hour | J. W. Myers | Male vocal solo | author | |
Berliner | 1940 | 7-in. | 12/14/1898 | The last rose of summer | J. W. Myers | Male vocal solo | author | |
Berliner | 0418 | 7-in. | Aug. 1899-Apr. 1900 | Believe me if all those endearing young charms | Haydn Quartet | Male vocal quartet | author | |
Berliner | 0856 | 7-in. | 12/16/1899 | The last rose of summer | Frank Badollet | Flute solo | author | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix A-]117 | 7-in. | 7/11/1900 | Believe me if all those endearing young charms | Haydn Quartet | Male vocal quartet | author | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix B-]482 | 10-in. | 5/24/1901 | The last rose of summer | Rosalia Chalia | Soprano vocal solo, with piano | author | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix A-]482 | 7-in. | 10/30/1900 | The last rose of summer | Rosalia Chalia | Soprano vocal solo, with piano | author | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix A-]701 | 7-in. | 2/21/1901 | Let Erin remember the days of yore | J. W. Myers | Male vocal solo, with piano | author | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix B-]718 | 10-in. | 11/25/1902 | Come ye disconsolate | Choir [i.e., Choir of the Lombard Street Mission] ; Choir [i.e., Lyric Trio] | Mixed vocal trio, with organ | author | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix A-]718 | 7-in. | 3/11/1901 | Come ye disconsolate | Choir [i.e., Choir of the Lombard Street Mission] ; Choir [i.e., Lyric Trio] | Mixed vocal trio, with organ | author | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix B-]1623 | 10-in. | 9/11/1902 | The minstrel boy | George Schweinfest | Piccolo solo | author | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix A-]1623 | 7-in. | 9/11/1902 | The minstrel boy | George Schweinfest | Piccolo solo | author | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix B-]1708 | 10-in. | 10/21/1902 | The last rose of summer | Jules Levy | Cornet solo, with piano | author | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix B-]3142 | 10-in. | 2/21/1901 | Let Erin remember the days of old | J. W. Myers | Male vocal solo, with piano | author | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix B-]3196 | 10-in. | 3/11/1901 | Come ye disconsolate | Lyric Trio | Mixed vocal trio | author | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix B-]3409 | 10-in. | 5/24/1901 | The last rose of summer | Rosalia Chalia | Soprano vocal solo | author | |
Victor | B-73 | 10-in. | 6/10/1903 | The last rose of summer | Edith Helena | Soprano vocal solo, with piano | author | |
Victor | A-73 | 7-in. | 6/10/1903 | The last rose of summer | Edith Helena | Soprano vocal solo, with piano | author | |
Victor | B-351 | 10-in. | 1904 | The harp that once thro' Tara's halls | Sousa's Band | Cornet solo, with band | author | |
Victor | C-351 | 12-in. | 8/14/1903 | The harp that once thro' Tara's halls | Sousa's Band | Cornet solo, with band | author | |
Victor | B-520 | 10-in. | 10/7/1903 | The harp that once thro' Tara's halls | Jules Levy | Cornet solo, with piano | author | |
Victor | A-520 | 7-in. | 10/7/1903 | The harp that once thro' Tara's halls | Jules Levy | Cornet solo, with piano | author | |
Victor | C-2228 | 12-in. | 12/19/1911 | The last rose of summer | Edith Helena | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | author |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Moore, Thomas," accessed September 3, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/102361.
Moore, Thomas. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved September 3, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/102361.
"Moore, Thomas." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 3 September 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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