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1His brother, (2) ANTON (b. Aarhus, Jylland, Oct. 16, 1845; d. Copenhagen, Dec. 29, 1911), received instruction in music from his mother, Tausig and Edmund Neupert. He first played in concerts at Copenhagen, and came to England in 1873, where he finally settled in 1882, when he was appointed a professor at the Normal College. In 1893 he settled at Copenhagen as a teacher of his instrument. He made a speciality there of giving yearly courses of lectures in which he analysed and played the principal pianoforte compositions of the great masters. In 1900 the King of Denmark conferred on him the title of 'Professor' (equivalent to a decoration or order). A. C.
3HARTY, SIR HERBERT HAMILTON (b. Hillsborough, Ireland, Dec. 4, 1879), orchestral conductor and composer, received knighthood and degree of Mus.D. Dublin in 1925.
5The boy was his father's pupil for pianoforte and viola as well as for counterpoint, and he was able to act as his deputy when only 8 years old. At the age of 12 he took an organist's post at Magheracoll Church, County Antrim. He held similar posts successively in Belfast and Dublin; at the latter place he had much help and advice from Signor Esposito. He came to London in 1900, and rapidly became known as one of the best of accompanists. In 1901 a trio by him won a prize at the Feis Ceoil (Dublin), and his piano quintet (1904) won the Lewis Hill prize of 50 guineas. Nevertheless it was in orchestral work that his composition made the strongest mark. His 'Comedy Overture' (Queen's Hall Promenades, 1907) was repeated at the Crystal Palace and at the Philharmonic. In the same year (1907) his setting of the 'Ode to a Nightingale' (sopr. solo and orch.) was produced at the Cardiff Festival, his wife, Mme. Agnes NICHOLLS (q.v.), singing the solo. At the following Cardiff Festival (1910) his tone-poem (based on a poem by Emily Lawless) 'With the Wild Geese' was produced, and this, like the 'Comedy Overture,' was much played subsequently in London. A fine violin concerto in D minor, played by J. Szigeti and the New Symphony Orchestra in Queen's Hall in Mar. 1909, made a great impression. His most considerable work for voices, with orchestra, 'The Mystic Trumpeter' (Whitman), was produced at the Leeds Festival, 1913. Harty's songs, some of them arrangements of Irish folk-songs, others settings of Irish poems, are distinguished by a delicate charm in the union of the vocal and piano writing.
7In recent years, while he has been busied with orchestral conducting, he has composed less, but his orchestration of pieces by Handel, notably a selection from the 'Water Music,' must be mentioned, and in 1924 he produced a completely rewritten version of his early 'Irish Symphony.' This was given at Manchester (Nov. 13, 1924), and in London at the Albert Hall (Jan. 21, 1925). After considerable experience in conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, Harty was appointed (1920) to direct the Hallé Orchestra at MANCHESTER (q.v.), where his conspicuous ability has made itself felt. He brought this orchestra to London for a series of three concerts in the autumn of 1924. (See B. M. S. Ann., 1920.)
9HARVARD, see BOSTON.
11HARWOOD, BASIL (b. Woodhouse, Olveston, Gloucestershire, Apr. 11, 1859), organist and composer of church music (see ANTHEM) and for the organ, son of Edward Harwood, J.P., was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Oxford. He studied the pianoforte with J. L. Roeckel at Clifton, the organ with G. Riseley at Bristol, theory with Dr. C. W. Corfe at Oxford, and composition for a short time at the Leipzig Conservatorium under Reinecke and Jadassohn. He was organist of St. Barnabas', Pimlico, from 1883-87, of Ely Cathedral from 1887-92, and Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, 1892-1907, when he retired from professional life. He was precentor of Keble College, Oxford, from 1892-1903, and conductor of the Oxford Orchestral Association from 1892-98. On the foundation of the Oxford Bach Choir in 1896 he was appointed its conductor, a post he held with distinction till 1900, in which year he became choragus of the university. His works are all marked by most careful workmanship and fastidious taste. They include Psalm lxxxvi., 'Inclina, Domine,' for soprano solo, chorus and orchestra, performed Gloucester Festival of 1898; Psalm cxxxvii., 'As by the streams of Babylon,' for soprano solo, chorus and orchestra; motet, 'Jesus, thy boundless love,' soli, choir, orchestra and organ; an Agnus Dei, and O Salutaris, for choir and organ; a service in A flat, op. 6; a Communion Service in D, op. 14; several anthems; a vocal trio, songs, etc. His 'Ode on May Morning' (Milton), for choir and orchestra, was produced at the Leeds Festival, 1913, and 'Love Incarnate,' for chorus, semi-chorus, orchestra and organ, was given at the Gloucester Festival in 1925.
13His works for the organ are an important addition to the modern literature of the instrument. The first to establish this fact were the fine sonata in C sharp minor, op. 5; 'Dithyramb,' op. 7; 'Pæan' (played by Sir W. Parratt at the reopening of the organ in York Minster); and preludes on Old English Psalm Tunes. A concerto for organ and orchestra was produced at the Gloucester Festival, 1910. A second organ sonata (op. 26, F sharp minor), a fantasia 'Christmastide' (op. 34), and a Rhapsody (op. 38) are among his more recent productions.
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