Braham, John, a celebrated tenor singer, the most so in Europe of his day, and known all over Europe; was particularly effective in rendering the national songs; born in London, of Jewish parents; composed operas, which, however, were only dramas interspersed with songs. Scott described him as “a beast of an actor, but an angel of a singer” (1774‒1856).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bragi * Brahé, Tycho