George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English romantic poet and peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and has been regarded as among the greatest of English poets. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narratives Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular. Lord Byron was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, later travelling extensively across Europe to places such as Italy, where he lived for seven years in Venice, Ravenna, and Pisa after he was forced to flee England due to lynching threats. During his stay in Italy, he frequently visited his friend and fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Later in life Byron joined the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire and died leading a campaign during that war, for which Greeks revere him as a folk hero. He died in 1824 at the age of 36 from a fever contracted after the First and Second Sieges of Missolonghi. His only legitimate child, Ada Lovelace, was a founding figure in the field of computer programming based on her notes for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. Byron's extramarital children include Allegra Byron, who died in childhood, and possibly Elizabeth Medora Leigh, daughter of his half-sister Augusta Leigh. |
Birth and Death Data: Born January 22, 1788 (London), Died April 19, 1824 (Missolonghi)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1934 - 1936
Roles Represented in DAHR: author
Notes: Known as Lord Byron.
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Recordings
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | BS-82353 | 10-in. | 4/26/1934 | So we'll go no more roving | Richard Crooks | Tenor vocal solo, with piano | author | |
Victor | BS-99458 | 10-in. | 3/13/1936 | Vierge d'Athenes | Ernő Balogh ; Lotte Lehmann | Soprano vocal solo, with piano | author |
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Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron," accessed November 10, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/103087.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 10, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/103087.
"Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 10 November 2024.
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LCNAR: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81026857
Wikidata: George Gordon Byron - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5679
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/95230688
MusicBrainz: George Gordon Byron - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/63224112-15ae-409d-a072-1528422e6b0a
Getty ULAN: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron - http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500254532
ISNI: 0000 0001 2103 1939 - http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000121031939
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