William Henry Grattan Flood

Name: Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement
Author: William Henry Grattan Flood

Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)

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“Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement”, published in 1912, is a work by William Henry Grattan Flood. It explores elements such as Molloy, organist and Holmes.

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William Henry Grattan Flood, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)

“ HOLMES, AUGUSTA, properly Augusta Mary Anne (1847–1903) , composer, born in Rue de Berri, Paris, on 16 Dec. 1847, was granddaughter of Captain John Holmes of New Park, co. Tipperary, and daughter of Captain Dalkeith Holmes, who settled in Paris in 1820, and married Augusta Macgregor in 1828. As a child Augusta Holmes became passionately devoted to music, though her parents — neither of them musically inclined — gave her no encouragement. Her mother died at Versailles in 1857, and next year her father allowed the child to take up music seriously. ”

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“ Miss Holmes composed a four-act opera, 'La Montagne noire,' which was successfully given at the Grand Opera, Paris, on 8 Feb. 1895. Two other operas, 'Astarte' and 'Lancelot du Lac,' were from her prolific pen. Her interest in Ireland grew, and after reading much about the country she revised her symphonic poem 'Irlande,' for production at the first Feis Ceoil, in Dublin, on 18 May 1897, and she planned an Irish opera in the following year. For a time a theosophist and afterwards a spiritualist. ”

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“ Columba's College was a school mainly for the boys of the upper classes and for candidates for the ministry of the Church of Ireland; music and the Irish language were prominent features in the curriculum. From 1846 to 1853 Calkin zealously maintained a high standard of choral music at St. Columba's, and he cultivated composition. From 1853 to 1863 he was organist and choirmaster of Woburn Chapel, London; from 1863 to 1868 organist of Camden Road Chapel; and from 1870 to 1884 organist at St. Thomas's Church, Camden Town. In 1883 he became professor at the Guildhall School of Music under Mr. ”

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“ He showed much musical ability during his college course, and his singing of the services during Holy Week in 1857 and 1858 attracted attention. The degree of M.A. from the catholic university not being legally recognised, he continued his studies at London University, Paris, and Bonn, and was called to the English bar from the Middle Temple on 6 June 1863. ”

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“ His setting of 'Fling out the Banner' (by Bishop G. W. Doane) has a great vogue in America and the colonies, and is included in the Canadian 'Book of Common Praise,' edited by Sir George Martin in 1909. His 'Agape' was composed specially for the 'Church Hymnary' of Scotland in 1871, to the words 'Jesu, most loving God,' and was inserted in the 'Church Hymnal' of Ireland in 1874. ”

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“ He continued to compose much sacred and secular music. In January 1902 he won the prize of ten guineas offered by the 'School Music Review' for the best coronation song for school singing, namely, 'Come, raise we now our voices,' published as No. ”

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“ From 1859 to 1865 she attracted attention as a piano prodigy and singer of French songs of her own composition. As early as 1862 she published some pieces under the pseudonym of 'Hermann Zenta.' After a course of instruction from H. Lambert, Klosé, and Saint-Saëns, she became a pupil of César Franck in 1876. having previously acquired no little fame by her setting of 'In Exitu Israel,' in 1873, and an opera 'Héro et Léandre,' produced at the Opéra Populaire in 1874. ”

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William Henry Grattan Flood, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)

“ Molloy also published serially many novels in leading London and Liverpool papers, as well as in ' Temple Bar,' 'English Illustrated Magazine,' 'Graphic,' and 'Illustrated London News.' Among his separately published novels were: 'Merely Players' (3 vols. 1881) ”

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William Henry Grattan Flood, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)

“ Ann's, Dublin (1867–9) .
In 1869 Torrance went in search of health to Australia, holding successively the curacies of Christ Church, Melbourne (1870-1) ; St. John's, Melbourne (1871–7) ; and the incumbencies of All Saints, Geelong (1877–8) ; Holy Trinity, Balaclava (1878–94) ; and St. John's, Melbourne (1894–9) . In 1879 he received the degree of Mus.D. from Dublin University, and in 1880 Melbourne University conferred on him a similar honour. His third oratorio, 'The Revelation,' was produced at Melbourne in June 1882. ”

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William Henry Grattan Flood, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)

“ Molloy also furnished music for one of Sir Francis Burnand's early comic operas, 'My Aunt's Secret.'
He spent the remainder of hie life at Woolleys, Hambleden, Henley-on-Thames. He died there on 4 Feb. 1909. In 1874 Molloy married Florence Emma, youngest daughter of Henry Baskerville of Crowsley Park, Henley-on-Thames. He left issue two sons and one daughter.
[Brown and Stratton's Brit. Musical Bio. 1897; O'Donoghue's Poets of Ireland, 1892–3; J. A. O'Shea, Roundabout Recollections, 1892, ii. 98–100; Flood's Hist. of Irish Music, 1905; private information.] ”

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