Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1885-04-30
- Died
- 1971-03-30
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Beethoven Complete Pianoforte Sonatas
- Seven Sonatinas Complete (Signature S.)
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The English composer and pianist, Thomas Harold Hunt Craxton, was the son of a publican, and essentially a self-made man. His early musical instruction was typically provincial but he made a first public appearance at the age of 5 and took the Trinity College Grade One piano examination when he was 7. Some surviving manuscripts, while undated, are in such a childish hand as to suggest he was composing by his early teens at least. He next went to the Tobias Matthay Pianoforte School where he stud
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1885 births1971 deaths20th-century English classical pianists20th-century English composers20th-century English male composers20th-century male pianistsAcademics of the Royal Academy of MusicBritish piano educatorsEnglish male classical pianistsOfficers of the Order of the British EmpirePeople from DevizesPresidents of the Independent Society of Musicians