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(Charles) Thomas Carter
(Charles) Thomas Carter (c. 1735 – 12 October 1804) was an Irish composer and organist with mixed success as an opera composer in London, but with some songs that remained popular beyond his lifetime.
==Life==
There is considerable confusion about the identity and potential family connections of various musicians called Carter in Dublin and London, three of whom abbreviated their name as "T. Carter". The first was Timothy Carter (c. 1715–1772), a Dublin musician who became the father of the present (Charles) Thomas Carter and of Sampson Carter (c.1749–1815).〔William Barclay Squire: "Carter, Thomas", in: DNB vol. ix (London, 1887), p. 206–7.〕 Another Irish-born composer named Thomas Carter (1769–1800) was considerably younger, but died earlier – the London-published music of these two Thomas Carters during the 1790s is difficult to distinguish. (Charles) Thomas often, but not always, abbreviated his name as "C.T. Carter".
According to John O'Keeffe,〔John O'Keeffe: ''Recollections of the Life of John O'Keeffe'' (London, 1826).〕 Thomas was a choirboy in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, but there is no other evidence for this. He was organist at St Werburgh's Church, Dublin, from 10 December 1751 to 7 November 1754, when the organ was destroyed by fire.〔Barra Boydell, Axel Klein: "Carter family", in: ''The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland'', ed. Harry White and Barra Boydell (Dublin: UCD Press, 2013), p. 165–6; ISBN 978-1-906359-78-2.〕 There were benefit concerts on his behalf in Dublin in 1754 and 1756. He was then appointed organist at St Peter's Church, Dublin, between November 1757 and October 1762. After a new organ had been installed at St Werburgh's, he returned there for the period April 1767 to September 1769.〔Boydell/Klein (2013), p. 165.〕
In late 1769, following a London repetition of the Dublin production of ''Amintas'' by George Rush (died 1780), to which Carter had written a new overture, he moved to London, obviously attempting to gain a foothold in operatic work,〔Roger Fiske: "Carter, (Charles) Thomas", in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', ed. Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan, 1980), vol. 3, p. 836.〕 which initially met with little success. In 1787, he became the musical director of the newly-built Royalty Theatre, and in 1789 of the private theatre of the Duke of Barrymore at Wargrave. The most successful of his operas was ''Just in Time'', produced in 1792 at Covent Garden. Despite his undoubted talent, Carter died in poverty in London. Squire explained this as "() his improvidence and carelessness were such that he was in perpetual difficulties".〔W.B. Squire (1887), p. 206; as above).〕
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