J. Augustine Wade
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Joseph Augustine Wade (1796 – 15 July[1] or 29 September[2] 1845) was an Irish composer and conductor.[3] Wade was popular in his lifetime, and he was quoted in the 1919 Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
Life and career
Wade was born in Dublin and worked as a surgeon before moving to London.[4]
Wade was known for his arrangement of "Peter Gray," as well as popular songs that included "I've wandered in dreams," "Love was once a little boy," "A woodland life," and his most famous, "Meet me by Moonlight." Walt Whitman referred to Wade, having his eponymous hero in "Samuel Sensitive" sing a phrase of Wade's "Meet me by Moonlight."[5]
His son Joseph Augustine Wade was also a composer.
Selected works
- Two Houses of Granada (1826)
- Pupil of Da Vinci
- Prophecy (1824)
- Polis Melodies (1831)
- Songs of the Flowers
- Child's First Quadrilles
References
- ↑ According to George Grove, in A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, vol. 4 (1900), p. 360.
- ↑ According to William H. Grattan Flood, in A History of Irish Music (1905), chapter XXVIII.
- ↑ Cazden, Norman and Herbert Haufrecht, Norman Studer. Folk songs of the Catskills. SUNY Press, ISBN 978-0-87395-581-2
- ↑ Brown, James Duff and Stephen Samuel Stratton (1897). British Musical Biography. Stratton
- ↑ Walt Whitman, Emory Holloway [ed.] (1921). The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman: Much of which Has Been But Recently Discovered. Doubleday, Page & Company
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"Wade, Joseph Augustine". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. - Free scores by Wade at the International Music Score Library Project
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