Thomas Arne

18th-century British composer

Thomas Augustine Arne (12 March 1710 – 5 March 1778) was an English composer of the late Baroque and early Classical periods. He is known for his patriotic song "Rule, Britannia!" and the song "A-Hunting We Will Go", the latter composed for a 1777 production of The Beggar's Opera, which has since become popular as a folk song and a nursery rhyme. Arne was a leading British theatre composer of the 18th century, working at the West End's Drury Lane and Covent Garden. He wrote many operatic entertainments for the London theatres and pleasure gardens, as well as concertos, sinfonias and sonatas.

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  • A-Hunting We Will Go
  • Achilles in Petticoats
  • Alfred
  • Alzuma
  • An Hospital for Fools
  • Artaxerxes
  • Brittania
  • Caractacus
  • Comus
  • Don John
  • Don Saverio
  • Elfrida
  • Eliza
  • Helmsley
  • Henry and Emma
  • Injured Honour
  • King Pepin's Campaign
  • L'olimpiade
  • Love and Glory
  • Love in a Village
  • May-day
  • Miss Lucy in Town
  • Oedipus
  • Phoebe at Court
  • Rosamond
  • Rule, Britannia!
  • Soft Flowing Avon
  • Squire Badger
  • The Arcadian Nuptials
  • The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green
  • The Cooper
  • The Drummer
  • The Fairy Prince
  • The Fall of Phaeton
  • The Guardian Outwitted
  • The Jovial Crew
  • The Judgment of Paris
  • The Muses' Looking Glass
  • The Opera of Operas
  • The Picture
  • The Pincushion
  • The Rose
  • The Sheep-shearing
  • The Temple of Dullness
  • The Triumph of Peace
  • Thomas and Sally
  • VIII Sonatas or Lessons for the Harpsichord
  • Zara