William Howard Glover

(1819-1875)

William Howard Glover, author of instrumental and vocal music, was born in Londra on the 6th June 1819, the same year of the composers Abt, Biaggi, Campana, De Giosa, Deffés, Gouvy, Henrion, Hopp, Liebe, Mazzolani, Miladowski, Moniuszko, Oberthür, Offenbach, Puig, Suppé. He died in New York on the 28th October 1875

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Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of Romanticism

OPERE

"Aminta" was performed on the 26th of Jenuary 1852 in Londra

"Ruy Blas" was performed in Londra on the 21st of October 1861

"Once Too Often" was performed on the 20th of Jenuary 1862 in Londra

"Palomita, or The Veiled Songstress" was performed in 1875

LIEDER

"Mary dear" (O Mary dear, that you were here), published in 1863, text of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

"Tasso in the Madhouse" (1839), oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm, of the painter Eugene Delacroix, contemporary of Glover (Private collection)

William Howard Glover

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