Harry Farjeon

Harry Farjeon ( born May 6, 1878 in Hohokus, New Jersey; † 29 December 1948 in London) was an English composer.

Farjeon's parents returned a few months after his birth back to England. He studied privately with Landon Ronald and Storer and John 1895-1901 at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Walter Battison Haynes and Frederick Corder composition and piano at Septimus Webbe. He then worked there as a teacher and since 1903 as the youngest ever appointed professor.

He composed an opera, two operettas, two operas, a ballet, an orchestral suite, two piano concertos, two string quartets, a fair, piano and organ pieces, two cello sonatas and songs.

Works

• Floretta, opera to the libretto of his sister Eleanor Farjeon, 1899
• Piano Concerto in D minor, 1903
• Night Music, 1904
• Swan Song, 1905
• Pictures from Greece, 1906
• From The Three Cornered - Kingdom, 1910
• Lyric Pieces, 1916
• Moorish Idylls, 1917
• Elegy Heroique, 1923
• Pannychis, symphonic poem, 1942

• Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
• Composer
• Briton
• Born in 1878
• Died in 1948
• Man