British musical composer, born in London, England, on the 26th of January 1852. He showed a strong inclination for music from his earliest years, and, released from business by the failure of a firm, he entered the Royal Academy of Music at the age of eighteen. Here, in eighteen months, he won the Mendelssohn scholarship, and was sent to Cologne to pursue his studies. In four years’ time he returned to England as conductor at the Brighton Aquarium. In the judgment of Sir George Grove, he is one of the foremost of rising young composers. His romantic opera, Nordisa, is the most popular of some twenty published works.
