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BARNETT, JOHN (18021890)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 414 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BARNETT, JOHN (18021890) , English musical composer, son of a Prussian named Bernhard Beer, who changed his name on settling in England as a jeweller, was born at
Bedford
 , and at the age of eleven sang on the Lyceum stage in London. His good voice led to his being given a musical education, and he soon began writing songs and lighter pieces for the stage. In 1834 he published a collection of Lyrical Illustrations of the Modern Poets, His Mountain Sylphwith which his name is chiefly connectedreceived a warm welcome when produced at the Lyceum on August 25, 1834, as the first modern English opera: and it was followed by another opera
Fair
  Rosamund in 1837, and by Farinelli in 1839. He had a large connexion as a singing-master at
Cheltenham
 , and published Systems and Singing-masters (1842) and School for the Voice (1844). He died on the 16th of April 189o.
His nephew, JOHN FRANCIS BARNETT (1837 ), son of John's brother, Joseph Alfred, also a professor of music, carried on the traditions of the family as a composer and teacher. He obtained a queen's scholarship at the Royal
Academy
  of Music, and developed into an accomplished pianist, visiting Germany to study in 1857 and playing at a Gewandhaus concert at
Leipzig
  in 186o. He came into notice as a composer with his symphonyin A
minor
  (1864), and followed this with a number of compositions for orchestra, strings or pianoforte. His cantata The Ancient Mariner was brought out at
Birmingham
  in 1867, and another, Paradise and the Peri, in 187o, both with
great
  success. In 1873 his most important
work
 , the oratorio The Raising of Lazarus, was written, and in 1876 produced at
Hereford
 . Many other cantatas, pianoforte pieces, &c. were composed by him, and successfully brought out; and he took an active part as a professor in the
work
  of the Guildhall School of Music and Royal College of Music.


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