note
1.) Dr. Thomas Busby (1755-1838) composed the music for Holcroft's
Tale of Mystery
, the first musical melodrama produced on the English stage (Covent Garden, November 13, 1802). He was for some time assistant editor of the
Morning Post
, and Parliamentary reporter for the
London Courant
; wrote on musical subjects, taught languages and music, and translated Lucretius into rhymed verse (1813).