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Henry Bishop (composer)

Sir Henry Rowley Bishop (18 November 1787 – 30 April 1856) was an English composer from the early Romantic era. He is most famous for the songs "Home! Sweet Home!" and "Lo! Hear the Gentle Lark." He was the composer or arranger of some 120 dramatic works, including 80 operas, light operas, cantatas, and ballets. Bishop was Knighted in 1842. Bishop worked for all the major theatres of London in his era – including the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Vauxhall Gardens and the Haymarket Theatre, and was Professor of Music at the universities of Edinburgh and Oxford. His second wife was the noted soprano Anna Bishop, who scandalised British society by leaving him and conducting an open liaison with the harpist Nicolas-Charles Bochsa until the latter's death in Sydney.

The Maniac, or The Swiss Banditti (1810), opera

The Brazen Bust (1813), melodrama

The Miller and His Men (1813), melodrama

and Kalasrade, or The Waters of Oblivion (1814), opera

Sadak

Brother and Sister (1815), entertainment

Guy Mannering (1816), musical play

December and May (1818), operetta

The Heart of Mid-Lothian (1819), musical drama

The Comedy of Errors (1819), musical comedy

The Battle of Bothwell Brigg (1820), musical romance

Henri Quatre, or, Paris in the olden time (1820), musical romance

Clari, or the Maid of Milan (1823), opera

As You Like It (1824), musical comedy

Alladin (1826), opera

Yelva, or The Orphan of Russia (1829), musical drama

Stage works


Cantatas/Oratorios


Instrumental music

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bishop, Sir Henry Rowley". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 1.

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F. Corder: "The Works of Sir Henry Bishop", in: The Musical Quarterly, vol. iv no. 1 (1918), pp. 78–97.

M. Faul: " Archived 24 November 2005 at the Wayback Machine (editions Delatour, France 2003)

Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, harpiste, compositeur, escroc"

Bishop, Sir Henry R(owley).

Grove Music Online

Kidson, F. 1900, British Music Publishers, Printers and Engravers from Queen Elizabeth’s Reign to George the Fourth’s, Hill & Sons, London.

; Greening, Katie (2013). Music and Monarchy. London: BBC Books. ISBN 978-1849905862.

Starkey, David

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Free scores by Henry Bishop (composer)

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Free scores by Henry Bishop (composer)

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at the Discography of American Historical Recordings.

Henry R. Bishop recordings