Victor Beigel

Victor Beigel (born May 19, 1870 in London , † November 7, 1930 in Elstead ) was an English pianist and vocal teacher of Hungarian descent.

Beigel was an internationally respected singing teacher. He became friends with the painter John Singer Sargent , the interior designer Sybil Colefax and the composers John Ireland and Percy Grainger , whose choir rehearsals he accompanied on the piano for years. He was also friends with his pupil Gervase Elwes , after whose death in 1921 he founded the Gervase Elwes Memorial Fund (later Musicians Benevolent Fund ) to support young musicians. His students also included Lauritz Melchior , Anita Patti Brown , John Goss, and Monica Harrison . During the First World War he gave and organized benefit concerts in support of the Wounded Soldiers' Concert Fund .

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• john ireland: music, people, places - To Victor Beigel
• Karl Dreyfus (Ed.): Percy Aldridge Grainger: "Farthest North of Humanness: Letters" , Springer 1985, ISBN 9781349076277 , p. 206
• Composers Classical Music - Beigel, Victor