Fritz Hart

Fritz Bennicke Hart ( born February 11, 1874 in London, † July 9, 1949 in Honolulu) was an English composer.

Hart was a chorister at Westminster Abbey. From 1893 to 1896 he studied with Charles Stanford at the Royal College of Music. After that he worked as a theater conductor. In 1908 he moved to Australia, where he headed the Albert Street Conservatory in Melbourne from 1915. Since 1932 until his death he was conductor of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, at the same time, he worked from 1936 to 1942 as a professor at the University of Hawaii.

Hard composed ten operas, a symphony, two orchestral suites, an overture, three orchestral fantasies, chamber music, songs and folk song arrangements.