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4 unusual facts about Thomas Arne


Holte Bridgman's Apollo Gardens

Entertainments at the Apollo included music – concerts of trios and duets by Arne and Handel are recorded in 1748 – and fireworks.

Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton

His best known work is the dance tune "Ayrshire Lasses", and other composers dedicated works to him, including Thomas Arne and John Turnbull.

Isabella Young

Her Aunt Cecilia (1712–1789), was one of the greatest English sopranos of the eighteenth century and the wife of composer Thomas Arne.

Thomas Arne

In 1741, Arne filed a complaint in Chancery pertaining to a breach of musical copyright and claimed that some of his theatrical songs had been printed and sold by Henry Roberts and John Johnson, the London booksellers and music distributors.


Ann Cargill

She was born to a London coal merchant and was a child star, making her debut in November of 1771 at the age of eleven in Covent Garden Theatre singing the role of Titania in George Colman's The Fairy Prince (music by Thomas Arne).

Thomas and Sally

Thomas and Sally (also known as The Sailor's Return) is a dramatic pastoral opera in two acts by the composer Thomas Arne with an English libretto by Isaac Bickerstaff.


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