Author:Henry Rowley Bishop

Henry Rowley Bishop
(1787–1855)

Henry Rowley Bishop

Works

Stage works

• The Maniac, or The Swiss Banditti (1810), opera
• The Brazen Bust (1813), melodrama
• The Miller and His Men (1813), melodrama
• Sadak and Kalasrade, or The Waters of Oblivion (1814), opera
• Brother and Sister (1815), entertainment
• Guy Mannering (1816), musical play
• December and May (1818), operetta
• The Heart of Mid-Lothian (1819), musical drama
• The Comedy of Errors (1819), musical comedy
• The Battle of Bothwell Brigg (1820), musical romance
• Henri Quatre, or, Paris in the olden time (1820), musical romance
• Clari, or the Maid of Milan (1823), opera
• As You Like It (1824), musical comedy
• Alladin (1826), opera
• Yelva, or The Orphan of Russia (1829), musical drama

Cantatas/Oratorios

• The Jolly Beggars (lyrics by Robert Burns) (1817), cantata
• Waterloo (1826), cantata
• The Seventh Day (lyrics by John Milton) (1833), sacred cantata
• The Departure from Paradise (lyrics by John Milton) (1836), sacred cantata
• The Fallen Angel (1839), oratorio

Works about Bishop

• "Bishop, Sir Henry Rowley," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Bishop, Henry Rowley," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Bishop, Sir Henry Rowley," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Bishop, Henry Rowley," by John Weeks Moore in Complete Encyclopaedia of Music, Boston: Oliver Ditson Company (1880)