Composer and conductor. Born Martin Edward Fallas Shaw, in Belsize Park. He studied at the Royal College of Music, at the same time as Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and John Ireland. His prolific output of over 300 works includes hymns, carols, oratorios and four operas. Died Southwold, Suffolk.
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Martin Shaw 0.B.E.
Martin Shaw, O.B.E., 1875 - 1958, composer, quiet revolutionary of English mu...
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Claudia Fontaine was an backing vocalist from Peckham, London. Guardian obituary. The plaque has Fontaine spelt as Fontayne.
Held weekly concerts over his coal merchant's shop in Jerusalem Passage, from 1678. Important composers such as Pepusch and, it is also rumoured, Handel, paid visits to his musical evenings.Popular...
