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Samuel Lover (24 February 1797 – 6 July 1868), also known as "Ben Trovato" ("well invented"), was an Irish songwriter, composer and novelist, and a portrait painter, chiefly in miniatures. He was the grandfather of Victor Herbert.

Samuel Lover
Self-portrait c. 1845
Born24 February 1797 
Died6 July 1868  (aged 71)
OccupationComposer, writer 

Life


Lover was born at No. 60 Grafton Street, Dublin and went to school at Samuel Whyte's at No. 79, which now houses Bewley's Café. By 1830 he was Secretary of the Royal Hibernian Academy and living at No. 9 D'Olier Street. In 1835 he moved to London and began composing music for a series of comic stage works.[1] For some, like the operetta Il Paddy Whack in Italia (1841), he contributed libretto and music, for others just a few songs.

Lover produced many Irish songs, of which several, such as The Angel's Whisper, Molly Bawn (song)|Molly Bawn, and The Four-leaved Shamrock, gained popularity. He also wrote novels, of which Rory O'Moore (in its first form a ballad), and Handy Andy are best known, and short Irish sketches, which with his songs he combined into a popular entertainment called Irish Nights or Irish Evenings, with which he toured North America in 1846–1848. He joined Charles Dickens in founding Bentley's Magazine.

"When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen." – Samuel Lover

Lover's daughter Fanny was mother to Victor Herbert, a composer remembered for many musicals and operettas premièred on Broadway. As a child he lived with the Lovers in a musical environment after the divorce of his mother.[2]


Death and legacy


Samuel Lover
Samuel Lover

Lover died on 6 July 1868 in Saint Helier, Jersey. A memorial in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin marks his achievements: "Poet, painter, novelist and composer, who, in the exercise of a genius as distinguished in its versatility as in its power, by his pen and pencil illustrated so happily the characteristics of the peasantry of his country that his name will ever be honourably identified with Ireland."[3]



In the 2013 computer game "BioShock Infinite", the Lover piece "Saddle The Pony" (from Rory O'More), is heard in Battleship Bay, where Elizabeth is seen dancing to it. It is performed by an accordion player, a violinist and a pianist.


Selected writings



Selected compositions


Stage (to his own librettos)


Bibliography



References


  1. David Larkin: "Lover, Samuel", The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, ed. H. White & B. Boydell (Dublin: UCD Press, 2013, vol. 2, pp. 600–601.
  2. Marion R. Casey,"Was Victor Herbert Irish?", History Ireland, issue 1 (January/February 2017), Volume 25
  3.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.


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- [en] Samuel Lover

[fr] Samuel Lover

Samuel Lover, né le 24 février 1797 à Dublin et mort le 6 juillet 1868 à Saint-Hélier, est un peintre, écrivain et musicien irlando-britannique.

[ru] Лавер, Сэмюэл

Сэмюэл Лавер (англ. Samuel Lover, 24 февраля 1797 — 6 июля 1868) — ирландский поэт-песенник, композитор, романист и художник-портретист. Дед композитора и дирижёра Виктора Херберта.


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