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| − | (17**-18**) A music teacher, composer and musician in Cape Town, possibly of German extraction, who participated as musician and musical director in theatrical productions.
| + | #REDIRECT[[Frederick Carl Lemming]] |
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| − | He is mentioned in the Cape for the first time in 1802, and left the colony in 1817.
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| − | He is named as one of the members of a German Music and Drama Society (begun in 1802), and gave frequent musical concerts in the [[African Theatre]], the [[Good Hope Theatre]] and other venues, possibly with his own ''Musicaal Liefhebberygezelschap''. He is especially acgtive in this respect in 1816-17. From 1812 onwards Lady Cradock , wife of the Governor, was his patroness.
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| − | He worked closely with [[Mr Bertrand]], the ballet-master, on a number of projects and they were both founding members of [[Charles Etienne Boniface|Boniface's]] amateur company [[Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense]]. He thus composed, directed and played the music for a number of the ballets and pantomimes for Boniface, including ''[[Het beleg en het nemen van Troyen]]'' (11 September and 9 October 1813), ''[[Sapho]]'' (22 June, 1815), ''[[De Verhinderde Dansparty, of Het Orchest onder den Tafel]]'' (29 July 1815),
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| − | Bosman, 1928: pp 137-139, 145, 149, 175 and 520.
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