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Article: Byron's Passovers and Nathan's melodies.(Lord Byron and Isaac Nathan)
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- January 1, 2002
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THIS IS THE STORY OF THE MUSICIAN, ISAAC NATHAN, and his connections with two Passovers, one in the year 701 before the common era, the other in 1816 of this era.
Isaac Nathan (1) was born in Canterbury in 1792, the son of Menahem Mona, a cantor who claimed to be the illegitimate son of the last Polish King, Stanislaus Paniatowski, by his Jewish mistress. In 1805 he went to Solomon Lyon's secular boarding school in Cambridge, the first in Anglo-Jewry, which was based upon Moses Mendelssohn's enlightenment movement in Berlin. Nathan then attended the University but his religion debarred him from taking a degree. A musical prodigy who regularly woke his family by ...