Joseph Mainzer

MAINZER, Joseph. b. Trier, 21 October 1801; d. Manchester, 10 November 1851. Mainzer was ordained in 1826, becoming the singing master in the seminary in Trier two years later. He attracted the attention of the police by circulating pamphlets in support of the miners and had to leave, arriving in Paris in 1834. He started free singing classes for workers in 1835, but the authorities banned them in 1839 amid growing fears of insurrection. He moved to London, and started classes there in May 1841, four months after John Hullah*, who had started his classes inspired by Mainzer's work in Paris. He moved to Edinburgh in November 1841, and competed unsuccessfully for the professorship of music at...

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