1703-1751 Johann Frederic Lampe

1703, Sax­o­ny.

July 25, 1751, Ed­in­burgh, Scot­land.

Ca­non­gate Church­yard (East Wall), Ed­in­burgh, Scot­land.

John F. Lampe (1703-1751)

Lampe moved to Lon­don in 1724 to play bass­oon in op­er­as, and mar­ried Thom­as Arne’s sis­ter-in-law, Is­a­bel­la Young. He wrote for the for stage, and on the­o­ry. He tra­veled the British Isles, being in Dub­lin, Ire­land (1748-9), and at the Ca­non­gate The­a­tre in Ed­in­burgh, Scot­land (1750), and was a friend of Charles Wes­ley.

The monument at at Lampe’s resting place reads:

Here lye the mortal remains of Johann Frederic Lampe, whose harmonious compositions shall outlive monumental registers, and, with melodious notes through future ages perpetuate his fame, till time shall sink into eternity. His taste for moral harmony appeared through all his conduct. On the 25th of July, 1751, in the forty-eighth year of his age, he was summoned to join that heavenly concert with the blessed choir above, where his virtuous soul now enjoys that harmony which was his chief delight upon earth.
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