The British Musical Biography

[E] Leveridge, Richard, bass vocalist and
composer, was born in 1670. He sang in
opera at Drury Lane and Queen's Theatres,
1705-12 ; at Lincoln's Inn Fields and Covent
Garden, 1713-30. He died at London, March
22, 1758.

[W] Works. — Music for the Island Princess, or
the Generous Portuguese, 1699 ; Pyramus and
Thisbe, 1716 ; Collection of Songs, with the
music, London, 1727, 2 vols., with frontispiece
engraved by Hogarth. New Book of Songs,
engraven, printed, and published for Richard
Leveridge, London, n.d.

[+] Leveridge is known only as a song-writer,
though he has been credited with the com-
position of the much-discussed " Macbeth "
music, on the authority of a notice in Rowe's
edition of Shakespeare. The well-known
songs " All in the downs " and the " Roast
Beef of Old England " very fairly illustrate
the style of his works.

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