John Francis Larchet (Composer)
Born: 13th July 1884, Dublin, Ireland
Died: 10th August 1967, La Jolla, California, United States
Nationality: Irish
John Francis Larchet was an Irish composer and teacher. He studied at Trinity College Dublin (MusB 1915, MusD 1917), also at the Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM) with Michele Esposito. Larchet was music director at the Abbey Theatre from 1908 to 1935 and was therefore responsible for the stage music accompanying many of the pivotal plays of the Irish Literary Renaissance, in particular those of William Butler Yeats, and also had his ballet Bluebeard performed there (in 1932), including the dancer Ninette de Valois. Although a prolific composer and arranger, his main contribution to Irish music was as a teacher: He taught harmony and counterpoint at the Royal Irish Academy of Music between 1920 and 1955 and was Professor of Music at University College Dublin between 1921 and 1958. Among his pupils were Frank Ll.
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- A Stoirin Ban (3)
- An Ardglass Boat Song (2)
- By the Waters of Moyle (1)
- Diarmuid’s Lament (1)
- In Sweet Humility (1)
- Irish Airs for Violin & Piano, First Set (1)
- Irish Airs for Violin & Piano, Second Set (1)
- Love, and a Garden (1)
- Love’s Question (1)
- Padraic the Fiddiler (1)
- Padriac the Fiddler (2)
- The Bard of Armagh (1)
- The Cormorant (1)
- The Philosophy of Love (1)
- The Small Black Rose (1)
- The Song of the Faery Child (1)
- The Stranger (1)
- The Thief of the World (1)
- The Wee Boy in Bed (2)
- Wee Hughie (2)
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