Isaac Nathan

(1790-1864)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Nathan, Isaac, 1792-1864 DNB: Nathan, Isaac (1790-1864), composer LBT ID: IsNatha1864 VIAF ID: 61903038 LOC ID: n82228288	B/BAP: 1790 DIED: 1864-01-15
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He abandoned a career as a rabbi to become a musician, setting Byron's Hebrew Melodies (1815) and composing a memoir of Byron before emigrating to Australia in 1841.
REFERENCES TO Isaac Nathan: Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 March 1815 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 1: ¶ 123 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1815 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter XIV. 1815-16. Found 1: ¶ 3