Benjamin Dale

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Benjamin James Dale (born July 17, 1885 in London , † July 30, 1943 ) was a British organist and composer.

Charles Dale's son studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Frederick Corder , Evlyn Howard-Jones , Herbert Lake and Henry Richards . Until 1914 he worked as an organist at various London churches. During the First World War he was interned as an enemy foreigner in Ruhleben near Berlin. From 1919 to 1920 he made a trip around the world that took him to Australia and New Zealand, among others.

As a composer, Dale was active from early youth. At the age of fourteen he composed the overture Horatius . His chamber music works include a piano sonata (1905) and a fantasy in D (1911). He also composed choral works, six carols and the Anthem A Song of Praise . His chorale Sidmouth was included in the Methodist Hymn Book (1933).

literature

  • Dale, Benjamin James. In: Maggie Humphreys, Robert Evans: Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. Mansell, London 1997, ISBN 978-0-7201-2330-2 , pp. 84-85 ( limited preview in Google book search).

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