The British Musical Biography

[E] Lee, George Alexander, composer and
conductor, born at London, 1802. Tenor
singer in theatre at Dublin, 1825 ; Ilaymarket
Theatre, London, 1826. ilusic-seller in Lon-
don for a time. Ox^ened Tottenham Street
Theatre for English opera (with Chapman and
Melrose). Lessee of Drury Lane Theatre,
18-30. Manager of Lenten oratorios at Covent
Garden and Drury Lane, 1831. Married Mrs.
Waylett, the singer. Conductor of Strand
Theatre, 1832; Olympic Theatre, 1845. He
died at London, October 8, 1851.

[W] Works. — Music to Dramas : . Invincibles,
1828 ; Sublime and beautiful ; Nymph of the
grotto, 1829; Witness, 1829; Legion of
honour, 1831 ; Love in a cottage ; Auld Robin
Gray ; Fairy lake, and other operettas and
musical dramas. Beauties of Byron, 8 songs ;
Loves of the butterflies (T. H. Bayly), 8 songs.
Songs and Ballads : Away, away, to the moun-
tain's brow ; Annie Bell ; Believe me not false ;
Bells upon the wind ; Bells at sunset ; Come,
dwell with me ; Come, merry fays ; Cora ;
Come Flower of Lamnrermoor ; Fairest flower ;
Fairyland ; Garden of Roses ; Gipsy's wild
chant ; Gondolier's lay ; Good night, love ;
He comes not ; I'll not beguile thee ; I sigh
for the woods ; I'll be a fairy ; I love all that
thou lovest ; Kate Kearney ; Lad who wears
the pladdy ; Macgregor's gathering ; Maid of
Kildare ; My native bells ; Mermaid's invita-
tion ; Meet me in the willow glen ; My cottage
and my mill ; Old Irish Gentleman ; Rover's
bride ; Rose of Killarney ; Sweetly sound the
Village bells ; She walks in beauty ; Thou art
not false but fickle ; The wild white rose ; 'Tis
love's hallowed hour ; When the moon is
brightly beaming ; Why should we sigh ; Wild
mandoline. A Vocal Tutor. Duets and part-
songs, etc.

[+] His brother, David, who died at London,
in November, 1849, was a pianist and had
studied under Dussek.

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