Mountain, Henry

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1751–1794

Business Type: 
Music publisher
Music seller
Address(es): 

At the back of Blind Quay, 1759
20 Whitefriar Street, 1784–89
36 Grafton Street, 1790
44 Grafton Street, 1790–94

Details: 

Primarily a violinist, playing in the band at Great Britain Street Gardens (Rotundo Gardens) between 1751 and 1784 and being leader of the City Music 1765–85. He is listed in the Dublin Directories from 1784 as a 'professor of music'.

He published many single songs from popular operas.

Succeeded in business by his son-in-law Joseph Kearns.

[Dates and addresses differ according to sources: the Public Gazeteer of 6 November 1759 (cited in Boydell, Card Index) gives the Blind Quay address. The Dublin Directories give the Whitefriar Street and Grafton Street addresses at the dates above. Hogan gives 20 Whitefriar address from 1784 to 1790. Dix gives 36 Grafton Street only. Kerry gives 20 White Friar Street from 1784 to 1789 and 44 Grafton Street from 1790 to 1794.]

Select Product/Work List: 

Published

  • A Favourite Glee, for three voices [guitar part by H. Mountain], c.1776 (Lawrence)
  • The Happy Fellow, for three voices [guitar adapted by H. Mountain], c.1776 (Lawrence)
  • The Gentlemen’s Catch Book, dedicated by permission to the Hibernian Catch Club by their most humble servant, Henry Mountain, c. 1778 (Hogan)
  • 'With her jolly soldier: a favourite song in Surrender of Calais', 1791? (Pollard)

    • Sold

  • 'New music and fresh strings just imported from London' (Dublin Chronicle, cited in Pollard)
    • See Also: 

    Kearns, Joseph

    Source(s): 

    Dublin Directories

    Flood, W.H. Grattan, ‘Dublin Music Printing from 1750 to 1790’, The Bibliographical Society of Ireland: Short Papers, 2.5 (1923), 101–06 (p. 105)

    Dix, E.R. McC., ‘Some Dublin Music Printers and Music Sellers of the Eighteenth Century’, The Irish Book Lover, 18.1 (January/February 1930), 26–28 (p. 28)

    Carroll, F., ‘Dublin Music Sellers, Etc. 18th Century’, The Irish Book Lover, 31.6 (November 1951), 129–30 (p. 130)

    Hogan, Ita Margaret, Anglo-Irish Music 1780–1830 (Cork: Cork University Press, 1966), pp. 103, 162

    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. 240

    Kerry, Frances P., 'The Music Scene in Dublin During the Late Eighteenth Century (1790–1800)' (unpublished masters thesis, St Patrick's College, Maynooth, 1994), p. 32

    Lawrence, Thomas, ‘The History of the Guitar in Ireland 1760-1866’, 2 vols (unpublished doctoral thesis, University College Dublin, 1999), I, p. 35

    Boydell, Brian, 'Kearns, Joseph’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

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

    Last Update: 17-05-2018