Thompson, Nathaniel

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1664–1666

Business Type: 
Music printer
Printer
Publisher
Details: 

Thompson was in Dublin from c. 1664 to 1666. Three non-musical Dublin prints bear his name (Munter).

He is reported to have printed a number of musical works during his years in London (1666–68) and was in partnership for a few years after c. 1673 with T. Radcliffe (London), who printed Mace's Musick's Moment (1675).

[Note: Boydell (Long Room) gives the name as Nathaniell Thomson citing the Christ Church Cathedral accounts. Dates differ according to sources: Munter gives the dates in Dublin as '1665-66?' but Boydell (Christ Church) gives the date of 1664.]

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  • Printed anthems [sold to Christ Church Cathedral] (Boydell, Christ Church).
    • Source(s): 

    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. 308

    Boydell, Brian, A Dublin Musical Calendar 1700–1760 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1988), p. 261

    Munter, Robert, A Dictionary of the Print Trade in Ireland: 1550–1775 (New York: Fordham University Press, 1988), p. 269

    Boydell, Barra, 'The Development of the Dublin Music Print Trade to 1800', Long Room (1996), pp.25-33 (p. 27)

    Boydell, Barra, A History of Music at Christ Church Cathedral (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2004), p. 99

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Thompson, Nathaniel', Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Last Update: 20-05-2021