Arthur O'Leary
Irish composer and pianist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Arthur O'Leary was an Irish composer, pianist and teacher. Biography O'Leary was born in Tralee, County Kerry, both his father and uncle Daniel having been talented musicians, too. Arthur Senior was said to be first cousin to Arthur Sullivan's grandfather in an obituary for O'Leary written by W. H. Grattan Flood. When young Arthur's talents were discovered at the age of ten, a visiting barrister, Wyndham Goold became his patron: in May 1844 he sent him to school in Dublin and secured private piano tuition. With financial backing from others, including John Stanford , and with letters of introduction from William Sterndale Bennett, O'Leary was able to study at the conservatory in Leipzig, where he arrived in 1847 to study piano , organ, violin, and harmony . During this time he was invited several times to musical dinners where he met, besides Moscheles, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Joseph Joachim. He also attended Mendelssohn's funeral in 1847.
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