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Joseph Augustine Wade (1796[1] – 15 July 1845) was an Irish composer and conductor. Wade was popular in his lifetime, and he was quoted in the 1919 Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.


Life and career


Wade was born in Dublin and worked as a surgeon before moving to London in 1821. For a short period he was conductor at the King's Theatre. He had some success with his oratorio The Prophecy (1824) and the comic opera The Two Houses of Grenada (1826).

Wade was known for his arrangement of Peter Gray as well as for popular songs that included I've Wandered in Dreams, Love was Once a Little Boy, A Woodland Life, and his most famous, Meet me by Moonlight. Walt Whitman referred to Wade, having his eponymous hero in Samuel Sensitive sing a phrase of Wade's Meet me by Moonlight.[2]

His son Joseph Augustine Wade jr. was also a composer.


Selected works


Stage

Vocal

Piano


Writings



References


  1. 'c.1801' according to Lisa Parker: "Wade, Joseph Augustine", in: The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, ed. H. White & B. Boydell (Dublin: UCD Press, 2013), vol. 2, p. 1036
  2. Walt Whitman, Emory Holloway (ed.), The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman: Much of which Has Been But Recently Discovered (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921).





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