A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Gye, Frederick

by J. A. Fuller-Maitland

GYE, Frederick, born 1809, the son of a tea-merchant in the city of London. He entered upon his career as an operatic manager and impresario on the secession of Costa from Covent Garden in 1869, and remained in possession of the same theatre until 1877, when the management was handed over to his son Ernest Gye, the husband of Mme. Albani. He died Dec. 4, 1878, while staying at Dytchley, the seat of Viscount Dillon, from the effects of a gun accident, and was buried at Norwood on the 9th of the month.

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