Barnett

Barnett, JOHN, composer, who was born at Bedford, 15th July 1802, died 17th April 1890, was for some time musical director of the Olympic Theatre, and is known as the composer of The Mountain Sylph (1834), Fair Rosamond, Farinelli, and other operas, besides vandeilles and songs.—His nephew, JOHN FRANCIS BARNETT, born in 1838, studied at the Royal Academy of Music, and at Leipzig. His works comprise The Ancient Mariner, a cantata (1867), Paradise and the Peri (1870), The Raising of Lazarus (1870), The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1871), The Good Shepherd (1876), The Building of the Ship (1880), and The Harvest Festival (1881).