Edgar Bainton

Edgar Leslie Bainton ( born February 14, 1880 in London, † December 8, 1956 in Sydney) was a British composer, conductor, pianist and teacher.

Bainton received at the age of 16 years, a piano scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London. His teachers were Walford Davies, Sir Charles Stanford and Charles Wood. In 1899 he won the Wilson scholarship. 1901 he was appointed professor of composition and piano to Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1912, he was director of the Conservatory and a year later conductor of the local philharmonic orchestra. At the outbreak of WWI in 1914, he stayed at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany and was interned there until 1918.

As the first Briton he was invited in 1919 to conduct the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam in two concerts with British music. After his return to Newcastle he led there its broken activities continued successfully, which entitled him to the University of Durham in 1934 the degree of Doctor of Music awarded honorary. In the same year he left Europe to take up the position of director of the State Conservatory of New South Wales in Sydney. He held until 1947 this place.

As a composer, Bainton was temporarily celebrating considerable success. His Symphony Before Sunrise, for chorus and orchestra, with contralto solo ( after three poems of Swinburne's Songs Before Sunrise ) and his Concerto - Fantasia for piano and orchestra were awarded the prize of the Carnegie Trust. Except for two operas he wrote several symphonic, sacred and chamber music compositions and songs. After his departure from the UK, his works disappeared from the concert business. Only minor piano pieces and songs for teaching could talk. In recent times, one begins to rediscover his work and take on CD.

• Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
• Composer
• Classic pianist
• Conductor
• Artists ( London)
• Born in 1880
• Died in 1956
• Man