Harry Pleon

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Harry Pleon

A late-19th-century lyricist and composer, he is remembered for lively stage songs written for the music-hall and musical-theatre world. Although biographical details are scarce, surviving catalogs and theatre records show that his work was active in the 1890s and reached both British and Broadway contexts.

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A Vision of Venus; Or, A Midsummer-Night's Nightmare

A Vision of Venus; Or, A Midsummer-Night's Nightmare

by Harry Pleon

About the author

Harry Pleon was a songwriter for the stage, credited as both a composer and lyricist. Theater records connect him with Broadway, while music archives place his activity in the late 19th century, especially around the 1890s.

Much of his life story has not been well preserved, but his name survives through sheet-music and catalog records. Collections such as IMSLP list him as active roughly between 1896 and 1900, which fits the period when popular theatrical songs and music-hall numbers were circulating widely.

That makes Pleon one of those writers known more through the songs he left behind than through a detailed personal biography. Even with only a small paper trail, the record suggests a working professional in the fast-moving world of popular entertainment at the end of the Victorian era.