Michael Arne
British composer · Musicians · Lived 1740 to 1786 · aged 46
Michael Arne was an English composer, harpsichordist, organist, singer, and actor. He was the son of the composer Thomas Arne and the soprano Cecilia Young, a member of the famous Young family of musicians of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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Portrait of Arne by Johan Zoffany![Susanna Maria Cibber (née Arne) (1714 - 1766) was the greatest dramatic actress of the eighteenth-century London stage and was the highest-paid actress in England during her lifetime. On the day of her death Covent Garden and Drury Lane closed their doors as a tribute to her memory.[1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Susanna_Cibber.jpg/500px-Susanna_Cibber.jpg)
Susanna Maria Cibber (née Arne) (1714 - 1766) was the greatest dramatic actress of the eighteenth-century London stage and was the highest-paid actress in England during her lifetime. On the day of her death Covent Garden and Drury Lane closed their doors as a tribute to her memory.[1]
The interior of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, where Michael Arne primarily worked from 1756 to 1767![A drawing of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where Michael Arne primarily worked from 1777 until his death. This drawing was made shortly before the theatre burned down in 1808. Many of Arne's compositions dating from his time there, along with a large amount composed by his father, were destroyed in this fire and are now lost.[3]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Microcosm_of_London_Plate_027_-_Covent_Garden_Theatre_edited.jpg/500px-Microcosm_of_London_Plate_027_-_Covent_Garden_Theatre_edited.jpg)
A drawing of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where Michael Arne primarily worked from 1777 until his death. This drawing was made shortly before the theatre burned down in 1808. Many of Arne's compositions dating from his time there, along with a large amount composed by his father, were destroyed in this fire and are now lost.[3]About this person
Like his father, Arne worked primarily as a composer of stage music and vocal art song, contributing little to other genres of music. He wrote several songs for London's pleasure gardens, the most famous of which is Lass with the Delicate Air (1762). A moderately prolific composer, Arne wrote nine operas and collaborated on at least 15 others. His most successful opera, Cymon (1767), enjoyed several revivals during his lifetime and into the early nineteenth century.
