Percy Buck, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Percy Buck

English music educator, writer, organist and composer

Date of Birth: 25-Mar-1871

Place of Birth: London Borough of Newham, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 03-Oct-1947

Profession: composer, music pedagogue

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Percy Buck

  • Sir Percy Carter Buck (25 March 1871 – 3 October 1947) was an English music educator, writer, organist, and composer.
  • He was born in London, and studied at Merchant Taylors' School and the Royal College of Music.
  • He was the organist at Worcester College, Oxford (1891–94), Wells Cathedral (1896–99), and Bristol Cathedral (1899–1901).
  • He was then appointed as director of music at Harrow School and held that post until 1927.
  • During his time at Harrow Buck served on the editorial board of the ten volume anthology Tudor Church Music beginning a clandestine relationship with Sylvia Townsend Warner, whose father was a History master at the school.
  • Buck was more than twenty-two years older than Warner when the affair began; he was aged 41 married and a father of five children.
  • From 1917 Warner, who was to pursue a career as a poet and novelist after the publication of her first novel, Lolly Willowes in 1926, also worked as one of the editors of Tudor Church Music.
  • From 1910 to 1920, Buck was Professor of Music at Trinity College, Dublin; this was a non-residential post. In 1925, Buck became the King Edward Professor of Music in the University of London; he was also teaching at the Royal College of Music.
  • From 1927 to 1936, he was music adviser to the London County Council.
  • He received a knighthood in 1937, on retiring from his post of Professor in London.
  • He continued his duties at the Royal College of Music.
  • In 1926 he started the RCM Junior Department with Miss Angela Bull, a "feeder system" for students, a scheme financed by the London County Council.
  • Several successful students have gone through this program and it continues to this day.
  • Buck taught at the RCM after his retirement from the University of London supervising teachers and taking the occasional composition student.Buck's compositions include a piano quintet, a string quintet, a violin sonata, a piano quartet, three organ sonatas, and several piano pieces and songs.
  • He edited The English Psalter (London, 1925) with Charles Macpherson.
  • The manuscripts of his early works were destroyed during the Second World War.
  • He is possibly best remembered for his Oxford Song Book (1929), and his Psychology for Musicians (1944).

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