Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2015-03-30 20:45
I've mentioned elsewhere that I'm using the great 19th century clarinetist, Henry Lazarus, as a character in some fiction set in 1888. Henry Lazarus entered the Royal Military Asylum, a residential school for orphans of military families, at age six. The RMA brought him up and gave him his earliest musical education. Technically, both of his parents were alive at the time, but his father, Private Joseph Lazarus, had been wounded out of the twenty-seventh Foot Guard in 1815, the same year Henry Lazarus was born. Henry Lazarus entered the Asylum under the auspices of the twenty-seventh Foot, as did his elder brother, John. That unit deployed to two different campaigns in 1815. I need to know whether Private Joseph Lazarus was wounded out of the occupation of Paris or from the Battle of Waterloo in Belgium.
I've already looked in Pamela Weston's "Clarinet virtuosi of the past" and "More clarinet virtuosi of the past," as well as "British Musical Biography," Lewis and Susan Foreman's "London: A Musical Gazetteer;" the 1896 Times of London obituary; the obituary in The Musical Times (April 1896); several other obits in various music journals from 1896; the perfunctory Wikipedia article; Colin Lawson's article, "The British clarinet school: Legacy and legend;" the biography in Grove's; George Bernard Shaw's "Music in London" (early reviews) and "London Music in 1888-89 as Heard by Corno di Bassetto;" and the anonymously-written "A seed bed of musicians" (an article about the Royal Military Asylum) on the Duke of York Royal Military School website.
Unfortunately, I have not succeeded in tracking down a copy of Jack Brymer's article, "Henry Lazarus," in "The Clarinet," Summer 1950 and/or Autumn 1956. (I've seen conflicting dates in bibliographical citations.) The Library of Congress doesn't collect that magazine. If anyone's got the article, it's possible that it may contain the information I need. Or do any of you know the answer from any other source? Thank you!
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Post Edited (2015-04-01 18:22)
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