A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Home, Sweet Home

by George Grove

HOME, SWEET HOME. This favourite melody occurs in Bishop's opera of 'Clari, or the Maid of Milan,' brought out at Covent Garden May 8, 1823. In the published music it is called a 'Sicilian air,' but is not impossibly Bishop's own.

[App. p.679 "Add that the fact of its introduction into 'Anna Bolena' has given rise to an idea, among certain continental authorities, that Donizetti wrote it; but that opera was not written till 1831, while 'Clari' was produced in 1823. Mr. Charles Mackay stated in the 'Daily Telegraph' of March 19, 1887, that Bishop, in an action for piracy and breach of copyright, made oath to the fact of his having composed the tune. The words are by Howard Payne."]

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