Composition Year | c.1796 |
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Genre Categories | Incidental music; Theatrical Works; For voices, orchestra; |
Work Title | The American Tar |
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Alternative. Title | Press Gang Defeated |
Composer | Taylor, Raynor |
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IRT 1 |
Key | C major |
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | c.1796 |
Librettist | Susanna Haswell Rowson (1762-1824) |
Language | English |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Classical |
Piece Style | Classical |
Instrumentation | voices, orchestra (assumed) |
Rowson's play The American Tar or Press Gang Defeated, is now lost, but it was written for, and performed by, a company in Philadelphia in c.1796.