Thomas Moore
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Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852), was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist who was widely regarded in the late Georgian era as Ireland's "national bard". The acclaim rested primarily on the popularity of his Irish Melodies (with the first of ten volumes appearing in 1808). In these, Moore set to old Irish tunes verses that spoke to a nationalist narrative of Irish dispossession and loss. With his 1817 work Lalla Rookh, in which these same themes are explored in an elaborate orientalist allegory, Moore achieved wider critical recognition. Translated into several languages, and adapted and arranged for musical performance by, among others, Robert Schumann, the chivalric verse-narrative established Moore as one of the leading exemplars of European romanticism.
In England, Moore moved in aristocratic Whig circles where, in addition to a salon performer, he was appreciated as a squib writer and master of political satire. Chief among his targets, in successive Tory governments, was Lord Castlereagh in whose promises of "emancipation" Moore believed his fellow Catholics in Ireland had been deceived. In the verse novel The Fudge Family in Paris (1818), and its sequels, he pillories the Foreign Secretary for employing the same "faithless craft" used to press Ireland into a union with Great Britain to accommodate restoration and reaction in Europe.
Wary in Ireland of an overtly Catholic place-seeking nationalism, Moore refused a nomination to stand with Daniel O'Connell and his Repeal Association for the Westminster parliament. His broader sympathies were expressed in his several prose works, including a biography of the United Irish leader Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1831) and the Memoirs of Captain Rock (1824). Complementing Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent (1800), the satirical novel is the story, not of Anglo-Irish landowners, but of their exhausted tenants driven to the semi-insurrection of Whiteboyism.
Moore continues to be remembered chiefly for his Melodies (typically "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer"). He is also recalled, less generously, for the role he is thought to have played in the destruction of the memoirs of his friend, Lord Byron.
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- Breath’d Back Again for Tenor and Piano - Three centuries of Thomas Moore for Tenor and Piano - Thomas Moore
- Neuf Mélodies, Irlande for Tenor and Piano: I. Élégie en prose, Op. 2, No. 9 - Three centuries of Thomas Moore for Tenor and Piano - Thomas Moore
- Neuf Mélodies, Irlande for Tenor and Piano: II. La belle voyageuse – Legènde Irlandaise, Op. 2, No. 9 - Three centuries of Thomas Moore for Tenor and Piano - Thomas Moore
- Neuf Mélodies, Irlande for Tenor and Piano: III. L’Origine de la harpe – Ballade, Op. 2, No. 7 - Three centuries of Thomas Moore for Tenor and Piano - Thomas Moore
- Neuf Mélodies, Irlande for Tenor and Piano: IV. Le coucher du soleil – Réverie, Op. 2, No. 7 - Three centuries of Thomas Moore for Tenor and Piano - Thomas Moore
- Neuf Mélodies, Irlande for Tenor and Piano: V. Adieu Bessy!, Op. 2, No. 8 - Three centuries of Thomas Moore for Tenor and Piano - Thomas Moore
- Thomas Moore Melodies for Tenor and Piano, Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4: I. Avenging and Bright - Three centuries of Thomas Moore for Tenor and Piano - Thomas Moore
- Thomas Moore Melodies for Tenor and Piano, Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4: II. Sail On, Sail On - Three centuries of Thomas Moore for Tenor and Piano - Thomas Moore
- Thomas Moore Melodies for Tenor and Piano, Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4: III. How Sweet the Answer - Three centuries of Thomas Moore for Tenor and Piano - Thomas Moore
- Thomas Moore Melodies for Tenor and Piano, Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4: IV. The Minstrel Boy - Three centuries of Thomas Moore for Tenor and Piano - Thomas Moore
- Thomas Moore Melodies for Tenor and Piano, Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4: V. At the Mid Hour of Night - Three centuries of Thomas Moore for Tenor and Piano - Thomas Moore
- Thomas Moore Melodies for Tenor and Piano, Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4: VI. Rich and Rare - Three centuries of Thomas Moore for Tenor and Piano - Thomas Moore
- Thomas Moore Melodies for Tenor and Piano, Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4: VII. Oft in the Stilly Night - Three centuries of Thomas Moore for Tenor and Piano - Thomas Moore
- Thomas Moore Melodies for Tenor and Piano, Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4: VIII. Dear Harp of my Country! - Three centuries of Thomas Moore for Tenor and Piano - Thomas Moore
- Thomas Moore Melodies for Tenor and Piano, Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4: IX. The Last Rose of Summer - Three centuries of Thomas Moore for Tenor and Piano - Thomas Moore
- Thomas Moore Melodies for Tenor and Piano, Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4: X. O the Sight Entrancing - Three centuries of Thomas Moore for Tenor and Piano - Thomas Moore
- Six Irish Folksongs, Op. 78: No. 1, Oh! Breathe Not His Name - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Six Irish Folksongs, Op. 78: No. 2, What the Bee is to the Flow’ret - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Six Irish Folksongs, Op. 78: No. 3, At the Mid Hour of Night - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Six Irish Folksongs, Op. 78: No. 4, The sword of Erin - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Six Irish Folksongs, Op. 78: No. 5, It is Not the Tear - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Six Irish Folksongs, Op. 78: No. 6, Oh, The Sight Entrancing - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Eight Partsongs, Op. 127: No. 1, Plighted - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Eight Partsongs, Op. 127: No. 2, Veneta - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Eight Partsongs, Op. 127: No. 3, When Mary Thro' the Garden Went - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Eight Partsongs, Op. 127: No. 4, The Haven - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Eight Partsongs, Op. 127: No. 5, The Guest - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Eight Partsongs, Op. 127: No. 6, Larghetto - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Eight Partsongs, Op. 127: No. 7, Wilderspin - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Eight Partsongs, Op. 127: No. 8, To a Tree - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Six Elizabethan Pastorals, Set 1, Op. 49: No. 1, To His Flocks - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Six Elizabethan Pastorals, Set 1, Op. 49: No. 2, Diaphenia - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Six Elizabethan Pastorals, Set 1, Op. 49: No. 3, Damon's Passion - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Six Elizabethan Pastorals, Set 1, Op. 49: No. 4, Sweet Love For Me - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Six Elizabethan Pastorals, Set 1, Op. 49: No. 5, Corydon, Arise! - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Six Elizabethan Pastorals, Set 1, Op. 49: No. 6, Phoebe - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Nine Irish Folksongs: No. 1, 'Twas Pretty to be in Ballinderry - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Nine Irish Folksongs: No. 2, Come, Rest in This Bosom - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Nine Irish Folksongs: No. 3, Silence is in Our Festal Halls - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Nine Irish Folksongs: No. 4, Wreathe the Bowl - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Nine Irish Folksongs: No. 5, When She Answered Me - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Nine Irish Folksongs: No. 6, She is Far From the Land - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Nine Irish Folksongs: No. 7, St Mary's Bells - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Nine Irish Folksongs: No. 8, Awake, Awake, Fianna - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Nine Irish Folksongs: No. 9, Molly Hewson - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Five Partsongs: No. 3, Emer's Farewell to Cucullain (Londonderry Air) - Bonus Track - Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs - Thomas Moore
- Gounod - If Thou Art Sleeping, Maiden, Awake ! - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Gounod - The Fountains Mingles with the River - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Gounod - Beware ! - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Berlioz - The Origin of the Harp - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Severac - A Dream - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Hahn - The Swing - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Hahn - Windy Nights - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Hahn - My Ship and I - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Hahn - The Stars - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Hahn - A Good Boy - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Roussel - A Flower Given to My Daughter - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Roussel - A Farewell - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Milhaud - Departure - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Poulenc - Fancy - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Dumoulin - O Mistress Mine - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Dumoulin - Come Away - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Dumoulin - I Am Gone, Sir - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Tansman - Song of Darkness - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Tansman - Song - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Tansman - Parting - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Tansman - Nocturne - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Tansman - Cabaret - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Tansman - Ships - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Ravel - Scottish Song - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Goué - The Night Is Darkening Round Me - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Goué - That Dreary Lake - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Goué - Fall, Leaves, Fall; Die, Flowers, Away - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Leguerney - Come Away, Come Away - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Top - It Was Given to Me - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
- Top - Before I Got My Eye Put Out - French Composers, English Poets - Thomas Moore
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