SIR GRANVILLE BANTOCK
NOTED MUSICIAN. LONDON, October 16. The death has occurred of Sir Granville Bantock, aged 78. [Sir Granville Bantock, M.A., D.Mus. (Edinburgh), . F.R.C.M., Emeritus Professor of Music, Birmingham University, was one of Britain s best-known latter day musicians, and composers. He was born in London in 1868, being the son of the late Dr George Granville Bantock, . and was educated for the Indian Civil Service. His love of music however, caused him to abandon, the .Civil Service as a , career, and in 1889, when ohly 21 years of age, he became the first holder of the Macfarren Scholarship for composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London. As conductor of the Gaiety, Company he toured America and Australia in 1894-95, and. from 1896 to 1900 was musical director at the Tower, New Brighton. It was during the latter period that he turned his attention to composing, and in the next 40 years he wrote a large number of choral, orchestral, instrumental, and vocal works, many of which have gained an enduring popularity. , He was appointed Professor of Music at Birmingham University in 1908, retiring in 1934.]
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Evening Star, Issue 25926, 18 October 1946, Page 6
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188SIR GRANVILLE BANTOCK Evening Star, Issue 25926, 18 October 1946, Page 6
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