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Michael William Balfe (15 May 1808 - 20 Oct 1870)

Male Person - Ireland

Recordings by (67)

  1. Killarney ?:?? (1913) 1912-06-07, mx. 1062-x
  2. The Bohemian Girl: Overture 9:01 (1991)
  3. The Bohemian Girl: Act I. "Up with the banner" (Chorus) 2:40 (1991)
  4. The Bohemian Girl: Act I. "A soldier's life" (Count) 4:37 (1991)
  5. The Bohemian Girl: Act I. "'Tis sad to leave our fatherland" (Thaddeus) 4:39 (1991)
  6. The Bohemian Girl: Act I. "In the gipsy's life you read" (Gipsies) 2:48 (1991)
  7. The Bohemian Girl: Act I. "Comrade, your hand" (Devilshoof) 5:23 (1991)
  8. The Bohemian Girl: Act I. "Is no succour near the hand?" (Florestein) 1:29 (1991)
  9. The Bohemian Girl: Act I. "What means this alarm?" (Thaddeus) 2:20 (1991)
  10. The Bohemian Girl: Act I. Waltz 2:50 (1991)
  11. The Bohemian Girl: Act I. "Down with the daring slave" (Chorus) 3:12 (1991)
  12. The Bohemian Girl: Act I. Galop 1:26 (1991)
  13. The Bohemian Girl: Act I. "What sounds break on the ear?" (Chorus) 5:06 (1991)
  14. The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "Silence, silence! The lady moon" (Gipsies) 7:21 (1991)
  15. The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "I dream I dwelt in marble halls" (Arline) 5:04 (1991)
  16. The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "The wound upon thine arm" (Thaddeus) 5:46 (1991)
  17. The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "What is the spell hath yet effaced" (Arline) 4:34 (1991)
  18. The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "Listen, while I relate the hope of a Gipsy's fate" (Arline) 3:41 (1991)
  19. The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "In the gipsy's life you read" (Gipsies) 1:11 (1991)
  20. The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "'Tis gone - the past was all a dream" (Queen) 4:50 (1991)
  21. The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "This is thy deed" (Queen) 3:25 (1991)
  22. The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "In the gipsies' life" / "Come with the gypsy bride" (Chorus, Arline) 3:41 (1991)
  23. The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "Life itself is at the best" (Chorus) 5:23 (1991)
  24. The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "My dear uncle, it delights me to see you" (Florestein) 4:03 (1991)
  25. The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "Whate'er the scenes" / "The heart bow'd down" (Count) 9:34 (1991)
  26. The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "Hold! hold!" (Count) 8:04 (1991)
  27. The Bohemian Girl: Act III. Introduction / "The past appears to me but a dream" (Arline) 5:57 (1991)
  28. The Bohemian Girl: Act III. "When other lips and other hearts" (Thaddeus) 4:09 (1991)
  29. The Bohemian Girl: Act III. "Through the world wilt fly, love" (Thaddeus) 3:13 (1991)
  30. The Bohemian Girl: Act III. "Welcome the present" (Chorus) 3:44 (1991)
  31. The Bohemian Girl: Act III. "Though every hope be fled" (Thaddeus) 5:39 (1991)
  32. The Bohemian Girl: Act III. "See at your feet a suppliant one" (Arline) 3:39 (1991)
  33. The Bohemian Girl: Act III. "When the fair land of Poland" (Thaddeus) 5:01 (1991)
  34. The Bohemian Girl: Act III. "Let not the soul for sorrows grieve" (Arline, Thaddeus, Count) 3:20 (1991)
  35. The Bohemian Girl: Act III. "Oh! what full delight" (Arline, Chorus) 3:18 (1991)
  36. Satanella: Preludio 2:53 (11 Mar 2016)
  37. Satanella: Act I: Scene 1: The Palace and Gardens of Count Rupert: Introduction: Donor of this lordly fete 1:25 (11 Mar 2016)
  38. Satanella: Act I: Scene 1: The Palace and Gardens of Count Rupert: Quartet and Chorus: Thanks, thanks, my friends 4:35 (11 Mar 2016)
  39. Satanella: Act I: Scene 1: The Palace and Gardens of Count Rupert: Song: My heart is not my own 2:18 (11 Mar 2016)
  40. Satanella: Act I: Scene 1: The Palace and Gardens of Count Rupert: Concerted piece: My Lords, I pray you judge 7:41 (11 Mar 2016)
  41. Satanella: Act I: Scene 2: A Gothic library in the Demon's tower: Song: Oh! would she but name 2:03 (11 Mar 2016)
  42. Satanella: Act I: Scene 2: A Gothic library in the Demon's tower: Scena and Cavatina: What daring mortal 4:55 (11 Mar 2016)
  43. Satanella: Act I: Scene 2: A Gothic library in the Demon's tower: Drinking Song: When fortune frowns 2:12 (11 Mar 2016)
  44. Satanella: Act I: Scene 2: A Gothic library in the Demon's tower: Recitative and Cavatina: Myself once more 4:30 (11 Mar 2016)
  45. Satanella: Act I: Scene 2: A Gothic library in the Demon's tower: Finale: There's a power sway 2:21 (11 Mar 2016)
  46. Satanella: Act II: Scene 1: A magnificent hall: Recitative and Air: Ah me, how wretched 4:57 (11 Mar 2016)
  47. Satanella: Act II: Scene 1: A magnificent hall: Romance: An angel form in dreams 4:20 (11 Mar 2016)
  48. Satanella: Act II: Scene 2: A sea coast: Pirates Chorus: Rovers, rulers of the sea 1:28 (11 Mar 2016)
  49. Satanella: Act II: Scene 2: A sea coast: Song and Chorus: My brave companions 3:06 (11 Mar 2016)
  50. Satanella: Act II: Scene 3: Lella's cottage by the coast: Recitative and Ballad: Ah! me, too human thou 4:44 (11 Mar 2016)
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Credited as (10)

  1. Michael William Balfe
  2. Michael Balfe, Roger Quilter, Edgar Bainton, Rosalind Ellicott, Walter Macfarren, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; Joseph Spooner, Michael Jones, Kathryn Mosely
  3. Michael Balfe
  4. Balfe; Nova Thomas, Patrick Power, Jonathan Summers, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Richard Bonynge
  5. Michael William Balfe; Richard Bonynge
  6. Michael William Balfe arr. Andrei Tudor
  7. Balfe, Wallace, Benedict; Veronica Dunne, Uel Deane, Eric Hinds, Havelock Nelson
  8. Charles M. Gayley, Michael William Balfe
  9. Michael W. Balfe / Franz Gruber
  10. Michael W. Balfe

Works (78)

Composed

  1. The Maid of Artois (1836)
  2. The Bohemian Girl (1840 - 1843)
  3. Marble Halls (1843)
  4. Cello Sonata in A-flat major (1866)
  5. Cello Sonata in A-flat major: I. Allegro (1866)
  6. Cello Sonata in A-flat major: II. Adagio (1866)
  7. Cello Sonata in A-flat major: III. Allegro vivace (1866)
  8. Come Into the Garden Maud
  9. Killarney
  10. Le Puits d'amour
  11. The Siege of Rochelle: Overture
  12. Satanella: Act III: Scene 2: The bazaar and slave market: Sextet: Oh, woe! despair!
  13. Satanella: Act III: Scene 2: The bazaar and slave market: Romance: Sultana Zulema
  14. Satanella: Act III: Scene 2: The bazaar and slave market: Arietta: Would'st thou win me
  15. Satanella: Act III: Scene 2: The bazaar and slave market: Recitative and Cabaletta: No rival shares a throne
  16. Satanella: Act IV: The Demon's tower: Serenade: Haste, lovers, haste
  17. Satanella: Act IV: The Demon's tower: Song: No prize can fate
  18. Satanella: Act IV: The Demon's tower: Finale: Dread shadow, speak
  19. Satanella: Act IV: The Demon's tower: Oh, tenderness sublime
  20. The Siege of Rochelle
  21. Le Puits d'amour: "Rêves d'amour, rêves de gloire"
  22. The Bohemian Girl: Act 2 no. 1 “Silence, silence!”
  23. The Bohemian Girl: Act 2 no. 2 “Wine, wine!”
  24. The Bohemian Girl: Act 3 no. 1 “You’ll remember me”
  25. The Bohemian Girl: Act 2 no. 3 “I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls”
  26. The Bohemian Girl: Act 3 no. 2 “Through all the world thou wilt fly, my love”
  27. The Bohemian Girl: Act 2 no. 4 “The secret of her birth”
  28. The Bohemian Girl: Act 2 no. 5 “Happy and light of heart are those”
  29. The Bohemian Girl: Act 2 no. 6 “’tis gone, the past was all a dream”
  30. The Bohemian Girl: Act 2 no. 7 “Come with the gipsy bride”
  31. The Bohemian Girl: Act 2 no. 8 “Life itself is, at the best”
  32. The Bohemian Girl: Act 2 no. 9 “To the hall!”
  33. The Bohemian Girl: Act 2 no. 10 “That grief may call its own”
  34. The Bohemian Girl: Act 2 no. 11 “Hold! Hold! We cannot give the life we take”
  35. The Bohemian Girl: Act 3 no. 3 “Welcome to the present”
  36. The Bohemian Girl: Act 3 no. 4 “Oh, what full delight”
  37. The Bohemian Girl: Overture
  38. Satanella: Preludio
  39. Satanella: Act I: Scene 1: The Palace and Gardens of Count Rupert: Introduction: Donor of this lordly fete
  40. Satanella: Act I: Scene 1: The Palace and Gardens of Count Rupert: Quartet and Chorus: Thanks, thanks, my friends
  41. Satanella: Act I: Scene 1: The Palace and Gardens of Count Rupert: Song: My heart is not my own
  42. Satanella: Act I: Scene 1: The Palace and Gardens of Count Rupert: Concerted piece: My Lords, I pray you judge
  43. Satanella: Act I: Scene 2: A Gothic library in the Demon's tower: Song: Oh! would she but name
  44. Satanella: Act I: Scene 2: A Gothic library in the Demon's tower: Scena and Cavatina: What daring mortal
  45. Satanella: Act I: Scene 2: A Gothic library in the Demon's tower: Drinking Song: When fortune frowns
  46. Satanella: Act I: Scene 2: A Gothic library in the Demon's tower: Recitative and Cavatina: Myself once more
  47. Satanella: Act I: Scene 2: A Gothic library in the Demon's tower: Finale: There's a power sway
  48. Satanella: Act II: Scene 1: A magnificent hall: Recitative and Air: Ah me, how wretched
  49. Satanella: Act II: Scene 1: A magnificent hall: Romance: An angel form in dreams
  50. Satanella: Act II: Scene 2: A sea coast: Pirates Chorus: Rovers, rulers of the sea
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Links (13)

Other Databases

  1. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/102997
  2. https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81-003160
  3. https://ibdb.com/person.php?id=4411
  4. https://www.classicalarchives.com/composer/2124.html
  5. https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/michael_william_balfe

Lyrics Page

  1. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Michael_William_Balfe

IMSLP

  1. https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Balfe,_Michael_William

Wikipedia

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_William_Balfe

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/1405151

Allmusic

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0001433219

VIAF ID

  1. http://viaf.org/viaf/79169806

Wikidata

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q434171

Picture

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