Friel, (James) Redmond (1907–79), composer, arranger, teacher, and church musician, was born 13 February 1907 in Duke Street, Derry. His father, Michael, born in the Twins area of Co. Donegal, was an engine driver on the Derry–Killybegs railway line; his mother, Sarah Donaghey, was from…
Hart, Nuala McAllister
Logier, Frederick
Logier, Frederick (1801–67), organist, teacher, and composer, was born 25 April 1801 in the town of Cavan, the second child of the German pedagogue and inventor Johann Bernhard Logier (qv) and his first wife, Elizabeth Willman…
Logier, Johann Bernhard
Logier, Johann Bernhard (1777–1846), pedagogue, composer, arranger, inventor, concert promoter, and music publisher and seller, was born 9 February 1777 in Kassel, Germany, the son of Johann Jacob Logier (1736–84), an organist and violinist, and Christina Elizabeth Gotze (1742–87…
McGuckin, (Bartholomew) Barton
McGuckin, (Bartholomew) Barton (1852–1913), tenor, was born in Dublin on 28 July 1852, the son of Anthony McGuckin (d. 1895) of Kilkenny, registrar of Mercer's Hospital, Dublin, between 1875 and 1895. He received his early musical education while a chorister at St Patrick's Church…
Phillips, Henry Bettesworth (‘H. B.’)
Phillips, Henry Bettesworth (‘H. B.’) (1866–1950), concert impresario, music shop proprietor, and owner of the Carl Rosa Opera Company, was born 23 December 1866 in Athy, Co. Kildare. Known by his business colleagues as ‘H. B.’ and by his family as Harry, he was the eldest son and…