George Macfarren
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George Macfarren was a playwright and the father of composer George Alexander Macfarren
. Macfarren's first play, Ah! What a Pity, or, The Dark Knight and the Fair Lady, was produced on 28 September 1818 at the English Opera House; for the next several decades, a Macfarren play was produced approximately once a year.
George Alexander Macfarren
Sir George Alexander Macfarren was an English composer.-Life:George Alexander Macfarren was born in London on 2 March 1813 to George Macfarren, a dancing-master, dramatic author, and journalist, and Elizabeth Macfarren, née Jackson. At the age of seven, Macfarren was sent to Dr...
. Macfarren's first play, Ah! What a Pity, or, The Dark Knight and the Fair Lady, was produced on 28 September 1818 at the English Opera House; for the next several decades, a Macfarren play was produced approximately once a year.
Works
- Ah! What a Pity, or, The Dark Knight and the Fair Lady (1818)
- Winning a Husband (1819)
- Guy Fawkes (1822)
- Edward the Black Prince (1823)
- Tom and Jerry in France (1823)
- George III (1824)
- The Horatii and Curiatii (1825)
- Auld Robin Gray (1828)
- March of Intellect (1829)
- The Danish Wife (1831)
- Innocent Sins (1838)