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* Thomas Arne – Alfred ( masque ), including the song, " Rule Britannia "
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* Alfred ( Arne opera ), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne
It was recorded as being sung in London theatres in 1745, with, for example, Thomas Arne writing a setting of the tune for the Drury Lane Theatre.
Thomas Arne composed a highly successful score to the same libretto in 1742.
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A revived interest in opera occurred in the 1730s which is largely attributed to Thomas Arne, both for his own compositions and for alerting Handel to the commercial possibilities of large-scale works in English.
Arne was the first English composer to experiment with Italian-style all-sung comic opera, with his greatest success being Thomas and Sally in 1760.
Serious composers who turned their hand to the round format include Thomas Arne, John Blow, William Byrd, Henry Purcell, and Louis Hardin.
* March 5 – Thomas Arne, English composer of Rule, Britannia!
The dirge " With fairest flowers ..." was set to music by Thomas Arne.
* Cymon and Iphigenia, a solo Cantata by Thomas Arne ( 1753 )
The melody used is that of the national anthem of the UK, " God Save the Queen ", arranged by Thomas Arne and used by many Commonwealth realms and some other monarchies.
Viola Tree's production of The Tempest at the Aldwych Theatre in 1921, interspersed incidental music by Thomas Arne and Arthur Sullivan, with new music by Bliss for an ensemble of male voices, piano, trumpet, trombone, gongs and five percussionists dispersed through the theatre.
* Thomas Arne ( 300th anniversary of his birth )
Thomas Arne painted by Johann Zoffany
Thomas Augustine Arne ( 12 March 1710 – 5 March 1778 ) was a British composer, best known for the patriotic song Rule, Britannia !.
Thomas Augustine Arne
He was the son of composer Thomas Arne and lauded soprano Cecilia Young, the latter of which belonged to the famous Young family of musicians of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Music historian Charles Burney, a close friend of the Arne family, indicates that he was Thomas Arne's natural son but there is some speculation among modern scholars that he may have been adopted.
His father, Thomas Arne, was the most important English composer of the eighteenth century and is considered the catalyst for the revival of English opera in the early 1730s.
The song " Soft Flowing Avon " was composed by Thomas Arne, with lyrics by Garrick, for the Jubilee.
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* Former residents: politician Kåre Kristiansen, lawyer Arne Haugestad and musician Thomas " Happy-Tom " Seltzer.
Returning to Shrewsbury at the age of fifteen, Burney continued his musical studies for three years under his half-brother, James Burney, organist of St Mary's church, and was then sent to London as a pupil of Dr Thomas Arne for three years.
Susannah Maria Cibber ( 1714 – 30 January 1766 ), also known as Susannah Maria Arne, was a celebrated English singer and actress and the sister of the composer Thomas Arne.
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* 1888 – Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
* 1892 – Lowell Thomas, American writer ( d. 1981 )
* 1972 – Anders Thomas Jensen, Danish screenwriter and director
* 1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer ( d. 1796 )
* 1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
* 1959 – W. Thomas Smith, Jr, American author and columnist
* 1961 – Isiah Thomas, American basketball player
* 1826 – Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer ( d. 1915 )
* 1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
* 1757 – Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer ( d. 1834 )
* 1970 – Thomas Lennon, American actor
In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.
* 1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician ( d. 1673 )
* 1972 – Thomas Woods, American historian, economist, and educator
* 1993 – Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer
* 1571 – Thomas Lupo, English composer and viol player ( d. 1627 )
* 1942 – B. J. Thomas, American singer
* 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
* 1974 – Thomas Tevana, American actor
* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
* 1785 – Thomas De Quincey, English author ( d. 1859 )
* 1944 – Thomas J. Murphy, Jr., American politician
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