Richard Pennycuick <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Jeff Dunn replied to Steve Schwartz: > >>There's the third, William Vincent Wallace, English opera composer who >>died in 1865. > >Not exactly. He was Irish by birth, emigrated to Australia and played >a leading role in the early musical life of Sydney. He also lived and >worked in, among others, the US and a number of European countries. >Vincent was his own addition to his name and was the one he preferred. I thank Richard for the correction. All I knew was the name from some long- forgotten article. The Harvard Dictionary of Music gave him the "English" designation and his dates. Needless to say, many falsehoods get perpetuated by reference-book errors. Perhaps the Federal Trade Commission should require them to put a "Reliability" sticker on every book: "Harvard Dictionary of Music, Reliability Index 98.2%." Jeff Dunn Reliability Index 55% and dropping Alameda, CA