William Henry Bell

William Henry Bell (born August 20, 1873 in St Albans , † April 13, 1946 in Gordon's Bay near Somerset West ) was an English composer , conductor and university professor .

Life

Bell studied in London with Charles Villiers Stanford and Frederick Corder at the Royal College of Music and at the Royal Academy of Music , where he lectured from 1903 to 1912. In 1912 he went to South Africa and became director of the Cape Town South African College of Music , for the expansion of which he made great contributions and which he directed until 1935. In 1919 he became a professor at the University of Cape Town and achieved that the college was attached to the Faculty of Humanities of the university in 1923 . Bell founded the Little Theater, a training facility for opera and at times headed the Cape Town Music Society .

Works (selection)

Symphonies

• Walt Whitman Symphony , 1890
• 2nd symphony, 1918
• 3rd symphony, 1919
• South African Symphony , 1927
• 5th Symphony, 1932

Operas

• The Mouse Trap , 1928
• Doctor Love , 1930
• The Wandering Scholar , libretto by C. Bax, Cape Town 1935
• The Duenna , 1939

literature

• Horst Seeger : Musiklexikon Personen A – Z , Deutscher Verlag für Musik , Leipzig 1981, page 78

Web links

• Works by and about William Henry Bell in the catalog of the German National Library