A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Dun, Finlay

by W. Hume

DUN, Finlay, born in Aberdeen, Feb. 24, 1795, viola player, teacher of singing, musical editor and composer, in Edinburgh; studied abroad under Baillot, Crescentini, and others. He wrote, besides two symphonies (not published) Solfeggi, and Scale Exercises for the voice (1829), edited, with Professor John Thomson, Paterson's Collection of Scottish Songs, and took part also with G. F. Graham and others in writing the pianoforte accompaniments and symphonies for Wood's Songs of Scotland; he was editor also of other Scotch and Gaelic Collections. Dun was a master of several living and dead languages, and seems altogether to have been a very accomplished man. He died Nov. 28, 1853.

[ W. He. ]