Panormo, Francis

Dates Active in Dublin: 

(1820?) c.1822–1829

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

25 Stafford Street, 1820
5 Church Lane, College Green, c.1822–29

Details: 

Son of Vincenzo Panormo.

Lawrence states that Francis was 'the first to suggest increasing the diapason of the piano. This was realised by one of his three sons, Ferdinand Charles, who first performed on this new type of piano by Broadwood in 1822 at the Rotunda in Dublin'.

The advertisement for 'Mr. Panormo's Concert' with 'Mr. Panormo at the piano' in the Freeman's Journal on 17 April 1820, probably refers to Francis Panormo but may refer to Ferdinand.

[Dates and addresses differ according to sources: the Dublin Directories give the Church Lane address from 1823 to 1829. The Freeman's Journal gives the 25 Stafford Street address in 1820. Hogan gives the 5 Church Lane address c. 1820. Lawrence (without citation) gives 5 Churchlane in 1822.]

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  • Panormo, Francis, A Selection of [....] National Airs, Arranged with Embellishments & Variations also as Duets for the German Flute, Violin, or Flageolet
    • See Also: 

    Panormo, Vincenzo

    Source(s): 

    Dublin Directories

    Freeman's Journal, 14 April 1820, p. 2

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

    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 (pp. 162–63)

    Lawrence, Thomas, ‘The History of the Guitar in Ireland 1760-1866’, 2 vols (unpublished doctoral thesis, University College Dublin, 1999), I, p. 29

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

    Last Update: 03-03-2017