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John Barnett

John Barnett (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 Sylph--with which his name is chiefly connected--received 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 Rosainund in 1837, and by Farinelli in 1839. He had a large connection 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 1890.



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