Hope Temple, born as Alice Maude Davis (27 December 1859 – 10 May 1938) was an Irish songwriter and composer. She was also known as Mrs

André Messager André Charles Prosper Messager (; 30 December 1853 – 24 February 1929) was a French composer, organist, pianist and conductor. His compositions include eight ballets and thirty , opérettes and other stage works, among which his ballet (1 ...

Life

Alice Davis was born in

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, Ireland, and was known professionally as Hope Temple. She moved with her family to England aged 12 and began composing ballads at the age of 14. Initially she studied music with the idea of becoming a pianist, but an injury in a riding accident caused her to give up her ambitions. Her teachers in

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included John Francis Barnett (piano) and Edouard Silas (harmony and counterpoint). In the early 1890s she continued her studies in Paris with André Wormser and

. In 1892, her operetta ''The Wooden Spoon'' was produced in London (also in New York, 1893), but she was known primarily for her songs, some of which became very popular. Her song ''My Lady's Bower'' is sung by Molly Bloom in

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's '' Ulysses''. In 1892, a reproduction of a photograph of her taken by Alex Bassano of Old Bond Street, London, was published in the ''Strand Magazine'', as part of a series called "Types of English Beauty". In 1894, she assisted Messager in writing the opera '' Mirette'', and then became his second wife in 1895. Hope Temple died in Folkestone, England.

Selected works

Stage

*''The Wooden Spoon'' (1892) *''Mirette'', opéra comique (1894), with Andre Messager, Fred E. Weatherly, Harry Greenbank and Adrian Ross

Songs

*''In Sweet September'' ( Fred E. Weatherly), 1880 *''Tis all that I can say'' (

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), 1880 *''She Walks in Beauty'' (

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), 1881 *''An Old Garden'' (Helen Marion Burnside), c.1886 *''My Lady's Bower'' (Fred E. Weatherly), 1887 *''A Golden Argosy'' (Fred E. Weatherly), 1889 *''Love and Friendship'' (John Muir), 1889 *''Mary Grey'' (Clifton Bingham), 1890 *''Rory Darlin (Fred E. Weatherly), 1892 *''Adieu l'amour / Love's Adieu'' (Catulle Blée), 1893 *''Auf Wiederseh'n'' (

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), 1893 *''Colin Deep'' (William Akerman), 1895 *''The Garden of Dreams'' (Clifton Bingham), 1900 *''Au bord des flots'' (Louis Fortolis), 1905

Piano music

*''A Summer Dream'' (1895) *''A Night in Seville'' (c.1921)

References

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