Thomas Moore
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Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852), was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist celebrated for his Irish Melodies. His setting of English-language verse to old Irish tunes marked the transition in popular Irish culture from Irish to English. Politically, Moore was recognised in England as a press, or "squib", writer for the aristocratic Whigs; in Ireland he was accounted a Catholic patriot.
Married to a Protestant actress and hailed as "Anacreon Moore" after the classical Greek composer of drinking songs and erotic verse, Moore did not profess religious piety. Yet in the controversies that surrounded Catholic Emancipation, Moore was seen to defend the tradition of the Church in Ireland against both evangelising Protestants and uncompromising lay Catholics. Longer prose works reveal more radical sympathies. The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald depicts the United Irish leader as a martyr in the cause of democratic reform. Complementing Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, Memoirs of Captain Rock is a saga, not of Anglo-Irish landowners, but of their exhausted tenants driven to the semi-insurrection of "Whiteboyism".
Today Moore is best remembered for his Irish Melodies (typically "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer"), his chivalric romance Lalla Rookh and, less generously, for the role he is thought to have played in the loss of the memoirs of his friend Lord Byron.
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- Blue Too - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Queen Anne's Lace - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Home of the Brave: I - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- By Language Embellished, I: Prologue - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Brush - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- The Narrow Path - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Home of the Brave: II - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- By Language Embellished, I: Scene 1 - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Two Lights - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Mercy - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Home of the Brave: III - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- By Language Embellished, I: Scene 2 - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Family Portraits: Erika (Daughter) - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Links No. 4 (Monk) - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- By Language Embellished, I: Scene 3 - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Dad’s Time Had Come - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Wait: I - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- By Language Embellished, I: Epilogue - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Far Away: I - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Wait: II - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- The Lilies of the Field - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Far Away: II - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Wait: III - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Far Away: III - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Wait: IV - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Far Away: IV - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Wait: V - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Far Away: V - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Wait: VI - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Far Away: VI - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Wait: VII - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Goodnight - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Wait: VIII - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Songs I-IX: I - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Songs I-IX: II - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Songs I-IX: III - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Songs I-IX: IV - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Songs I-IX: V - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Songs I-IX: VI - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Songs I-IX: VII - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Songs I-IX: VIII - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Songs I-IX: IX - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Poems I, II, III: I - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Poems I, II, III: II - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Poems I, II, III: III - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Quilt - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- One for Syl - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Wellspring: I - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Wellspring: II - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Wellspring: III - At 70: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: I. Widmung - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: II. Freisinn - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: III. Der Nussbaum - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: IV. Jemand - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: V. Lieder aus dem Schenkenbuch im Divan (I) - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: VI. Lieder aus dem Schenkenbuch im Divan (II) - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: VII. Die Lotosblume - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: VIII.. Talismane - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: IX. Lied der Suleika - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: X. Die Hochländer-Witwe - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: XI. Zwei Lieder der Braut (I) - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: XII. Zwei Lieder der Braut (II) - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: XIII. Hochländers Abschied - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: XIV. Hochländisches Wiegelied - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: XV. Aus den hebräischen Gesängen - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: XVI. Rätsel - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: XVII. Twei Venetianische Lieder (I) - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: XVIII. Zwei Venetianische Lieder (II) - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: XIX. Hauptmanns Weib - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: XX. Weit, weit - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: XXI. Was will die einsame Träne ? - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: XXII. Niemand - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: XXIII. Im Westen - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25:XXIV. Du bist wie eine Blume - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: XXV. Aus den östlichen Rosen - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
- Myrten, Op. 25: XXVI. Zum Schluss - Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 - Thomas Moore
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