Unsung Composers

The Music => Composers & Music => Topic started by: giles.enders on Thursday 27 January 2011, 10:50

Title: Clarence Barker 1864-1896
Post by: giles.enders on Thursday 27 January 2011, 10:50
Clarence Johnson Barker.
Has anyone any information about the compositions of Clarence Barker, born 19 April 1864, died 11 February 1896.  His grandfather was Commodore Vanderbilt.  He was educated at Magdalen College, Cambridge and then at The Frankfurt Consevatory under Raff.  I have not been able to track down any of his music though his Fantasy for piano and orchestra was played at his memorial service, which was attended by many of the monied East Coast families(USA). A memorial hospital was built in his memory.

Fantasia for piano and orchestra
Concert piece for piano
Impromptu for piano
String Quartet
Title: Re: Clarence Barker died 1896
Post by: eschiss1 on Thursday 27 January 2011, 12:36
just this even less specific BNF (http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14827662d) record which lists SACEM and Grove as sources 'consulted in vain'. (whoops, -big- difference. Where did my reading comprehension go?)