1592965074000 1439990712000 Standard Record object-110001658 1747159854161 1690893553000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110001658 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110001658 5912c9b5-822e-3aa0-8c76-dda1a2e17431 5 content description George Macfarren (1788–1843) was the father of composer George Alexander Macfarren. He was a violinist but was diverted from music after meeting a fashionable dancing master. He opened his own dancing academy but the stage was his main passion with his first publicly performed dramatic work being in 1818 at the English Opera House. After that date works by him were regularly performed. For over a year from February 1831 to July 1832 he took over the management of a theatre in Tottenham Street, London. In 1834 he wrote the libretto of an opera, "Caractacus" whilst in Milan. In 1841, he became editor and proprietor of the "Musical World." In died suddenly in 1843. Part of this collection consists of three bound notebooks and a fourth notebook that has been gathered together on the evidence of the watermark and page numbers. The remainder of the collection consists of loose sheets of various sizes. The poems, apart from a very few, are dated and numbered. Many of the dates are in the hand of the writer of the poem, though sometimes they seem to have been added later, for example when the year appears at the top left hand corner of a sheet. Others are dated in another hand. The numbers, some of the poems and amendments, are not in the hand of George Macfarren, but in a hand closely associated with him. Many poems are crossed out in pencil, with a number indicating its position in a copy book. For example “No. 8” is marked in pencil “See To Maria / Copy Book / No. 3”. Pencil markings also include questions “Is this to be copied?”, or “Is there more of this?” Macfarren(G) 1 accession number Macfarren(G) 110001658 priref 110001658 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110001658 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110001658 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1799 1799 1799 1799 1834 1 1834 1834 1834 reference agent-193788 adlib-agent-193788 6d19db1f-e83e-3876-88a8-f18cbb783894 Macfarren, George 1 box Collection of poems and fragments of play texts by George Macfarren, mostly in his own hand object OBJECT