time his public appearances were mainly restricted to his own concerts, which were generally held in May. At his concert in 1835 he cleared £800, and a similar sum in 1836, in which year he instituted a series of chamber music concerts, in continuation of those conducted by Blagrove, whom he virtually challenged by playing the same compositions. He died on 18 June 1839, from the breaking of an aneurism, having been for some years the victim of a cerebral derangement which rendered him at times brusque, irritable, and violent. Immediately before his death he announced a concert whose programmes were headed by the grim device of a death's head and the legend Memento Mori. Assessment As a performer 'Mori's attitude had the grace of manly confidence. His bow arm was bold, free, and commanding, and the tone he produced was eminently firm, full, and impressive. His execution was alike marked by abundant force and fire, by extraordinary precision and prodigious facility, but lacked niceties of finish and the graces and delicacies of expression' (Quarterly Mag. Music, iii. 323). He left behind him a son, Francis Mori (1820-1873), the composer of a cantata, entitled 'Fridolin;' an operetta, with words by George Linley, entitled 'The River Sprite,' which was performed at Covent Garden on 9 Feb. 1865; many songs, and a series of vocal exercises. He died at Chamant, near Senlis, in France, on 2 August 1873. Family He had 5 children with Eliza, the widow of music publisher Lewis Lavenu, finally marrying her on 24 January 1826 at St. Paul's, Covent Garden when Lavenu's business became known as Mori & Lavenu. References Attribution Further reading The Violin: Some Account of that leading instrument, and its most eminent professors, from its earliest date to the present time, George Dubourg, 1852, London, pgs. 285-289 1796 births 1839 deaths Academics of the Royal Academy of Music English people of Italian descent English conductors (music) British male conductors (music) English violinists British male violinists British music publishers (people) Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery Italian British musicians 19th-century English musicians 19th-century British male musicians 19th-century British businesspeople