Henry Phillips (singer)

[1] Phillips became a pupil of Mr Broadhurst, and began his career as a bass at Covent Garden in Henry Rowley Bishop's Law of Java.

He returned to London in 1823, studied under Sir George Smart, and was engaged by Charles Kemble to sing in Thomas Arne's Artaxerxes; but was a failure in it.

In 1825 he became principal bass at the Concerts of Antient Music, and entered the choir of London's Bavarian Chapel.

[1] In 1843 Phillips began a series of "table entertainments", which he continued at intervals to the end of his career.

Mendelssohn composed a "scena" for him to words from Ossian, On Lena's gloomy heath, and he sang it at the Philharmonic Concert on 15 March 1847.