Cecil Forsyth

Cecil Forsyth (30 November 1870, in Greenwich – 7 December 1941, New York City) was an English composer and musicologist. Career He studied at the University of Edinburgh and at the Royal College of Music (with Charles Villiers Stanford and Hubert Parry), and played viola in various London orchestras (including the Queen’s Hall Orchestra) while establishing himself as a composer. In 1914 he moved to the US and took up a position at the music publishers H.W. Gray, who also became his publisher. He continued to compose and secure performances in the US, though mostly with choral societies and glee clubs. and repeated in 1904 and 1906. According to Lewis Foreman, it is “possibly the first full blown concerto for viola by a British composer”. (York Bowen’s Viola Concerto followed in 1907). There is a modern recording by Lawrence Power and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Chanson Celtique (1906) for viola and piano, also achieved some popularity and was later orchestrated. The orchestral suite Four Studies from Victor Hugo also had its debut at the Proms in 1905. There were two comic operas, Westward Ho! and Cinderella, both produced in London at the Savoy Theatre, and a setting of