Musical tributes to Nelson found in Lady Hamilton’s songbooks

Four pieces, written by personal friends of the admiral, discovered at Museum of London during lockdown

“By Parker and by Nelson led, all opposition’s vain, at Copenhagen’s gates, our tars have crush’d the haughty Dane …”

So go the lyrics to a piece of music by the composer Michael Kelly, written within hours of the news reaching London of Admiral Horatio Nelson’s victory over a Danish fleet in April 1801.

Emma’s Songbooks: Rediscovered Music for Nelson is on at the Museum of London Docklands on 11 December 2021.

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