Harry Farjeon
Harry Farjeon (born May 6, 1878 in Hohokus , New Jersey , † December 29, 1948 in London ) was an English composer .
Farjeon's parents returned to England a few months after he was born. He studied first privately with Landon Ronald and John Storer and from 1895 to 1901 at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Walter Battison Haynes and Frederick Corder composition and piano with Septimus Webbe . He then worked there as a teacher and since 1903 as the youngest professor ever appointed.
He composed an opera , two operettas , two melodramas , a ballet , an orchestral suite, two piano concertos , two string quartets , a mass , piano and organ pieces, two cello sonatas and songs .
Works
- Floretta , opera based on the libretto by his sister Eleanor Farjeon , 1899
- Piano Concerto in D minor , 1903
- Night Music , 1904
- Swan Song , 1905
- Pictures from Greece , 1906
- From The Three-Cornered Kingdom , 1910
- Tone Pictures , 1911
- Lyric Pieces , 1916
- Moorish Idylls , 1917
- Elegie Heroique , 1923
- Pannychis , symphonic poem, 1942
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| SURNAME | Farjeon, Harry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hohokus , New Jersey |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 1948 |
| Place of death | London |