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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
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- Beethoven Complete Pianoforte Sonatas
- Seven Sonatinas Complete (Signature S.)
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1885
- Active to
- 1971
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- 16
- Total plays
- 48
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
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Harold
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- music educator
- Employer
- Royal Academy of Music
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Student of
- Tobias Matthay
- Instrument
- piano
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- date of birth
- 1885-04-30
- date of death
- 1971-03-30
- student
- Nina Milkina
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