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(17**-18**) A  music teacher, composer and musician in Cape Town,  who participated as musician and musical director in theatrical productions.
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#REDIRECT[[Frederick Carl Lemming]]
 
 
== Biography ==
 
 
 
He was possibly of Danish extraction and his name is first mentioned in 1802. He left the colony in 1817.
 
 
 
He may have taken a South African woman with him, for there is a report in the ''[[South African Commercial Advertiser]]'' (Wednesday 26 October 1836) of  a Mrs Frederica Rosina Heyns, "the Consort of Mr. [[F.C. Lemming]], of the King's Orchestra, and native of this place", who had recently died in Copenhagen.
 
 
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 
 
 
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. 
 
 
 
He was a founding member of [[Charles Etienne Boniface|Boniface's]] amateur company [[Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense]] and composed, directed and played the music for a number of the ballets and pantomimes presented by the company, 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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== Sources ==
 
 
 
[[South African Commercial Advertiser]] - Wednesday 26 October 1836[http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SOUTH-AFRICA-EASTERN-CAPE/2008-07/1216808735]
 
 
 
Bosman, 1928: pp 137-139, 145, 149, 175 and 520. 
 
 
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
 
 
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