Mary Fauche | |
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Born | March 19, 1801 |
Died | September 27, 1875
(aged 74) Brighton |
Occupation | Composer |
Mary Fauche (March 19, 1801 – September 27, 1875) was a British composer.
Mary Dolling Tomkison was the daughter of a pianoforte manufacturer and a childhood friend of novelist Fanny Trollope.
Her opera The Shepherd King, or the Conquest of Sidon was performed at the London Lyceum in 1823. [1] It was revived in 2023 in a private performance conducted by Stephen Higgins. [2]
Poet
William Plomer recalls her "singing like a
linnet."
[3]
Mary Fauche died on 27 September 1875 in Brighton.
Mary Fauche | |
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Born | March 19, 1801 |
Died | September 27, 1875
(aged 74) Brighton |
Occupation | Composer |
Mary Fauche (March 19, 1801 – September 27, 1875) was a British composer.
Mary Dolling Tomkison was the daughter of a pianoforte manufacturer and a childhood friend of novelist Fanny Trollope.
Her opera The Shepherd King, or the Conquest of Sidon was performed at the London Lyceum in 1823. [1] It was revived in 2023 in a private performance conducted by Stephen Higgins. [2]
Poet
William Plomer recalls her "singing like a
linnet."
[3]
Mary Fauche died on 27 September 1875 in Brighton.