McLean, John

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1813–1842

Business Type: 
Music publisher
Music seller
Musical instrument seller: unspecified
Address(es): 

19 Anglesea Street, 1813–16
Musical Commission Warehouse, 15 Essex Quay, 1816
Musical Commission's Warehouse, 10 Bachelor's Walk, 1816–42

Details: 

Also known as John Maclean.

McLean ran a circulating music library (Hogan).

Mark: 'McLean, Dublin' (Waterhouse).

[Dates and addresses differ according to sources: the Dublin Directories, Hogan and Humphries & Smith all give the Anglesea address at the dates above. The Essex Quay address is only recorded in McLean's own publication The Amateur's Companion. The Dublin Directories give Bachelor's Walk from 1821 but Humphries & Smith, Hogan and Waterhouse give it from c. 1816.]

Select Product/Work List: 

Produced

  • Flageolet: private collection (Boydell, 'Flageolet')

    • Published

  • The Amateur's Companion being a rare selection of Irish & Scotch melodies arranged in a familiar stile [sic] for the pipes, flute, flageolet & violin to which are added a variety of country dances, foreign airs, waltzes &c., c. 1816

    • Sold

  • 'A variety of violins, flutes, flageolets etc. both new and secondhand. N.B. Music neatly engraved or copied' (The Amateur's Companion, cited in Boydell, 'Flageolet')
    • Source(s): 

    Dublin Directories

    Freeman's Journal, 4 January 1823, p. 2

    Hogan, Ita Margaret, Anglo-Irish Music 1780–1830 (Cork: Cork University Press, 1966), p. 103

    Humphries, Charles and William C. Smith, Music Publishing in the British Isles, from the Beginning until the Middle of the Nineteenth Century; a Dictionary of Engravers, Printers, Publishers, and Music Sellers (London: Oxford University Press, 1970), p. 223

    Boydell, Barra, 'The Flageolet in Ireland: Aspects of the Repertoire, the Instrument and its Makers', in Musicology in Ireland, ed. by Gerard Gillen and Harry White, Irish Musical Studies, I (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1990), pp. 151–168 (p. 158)

    Waterhouse, William, The New Langwill Index: a Dictionary of Musical Wind-Instrument Makers and Inventors (London: Tony Bingham, 1993), p. 248

    Boydell, Brian, ‘McLean, John’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Last Update: 26-09-2013