Sir Granville Ransome Bantock (7 August 1868 – 16 October 1946) was a British composer of classical music. Granville Ransome Bantock was born in London. His father was an eminent Scottish surgeon. [1] . His younger brother was the dramatist and film director Leedham Bantock.

Granville Bantock, English composer known especially for his large-scale choral and orchestral works. Among his principal compositions are Dante and Beatrice (1910), Atalanta in Calydon (1911), Vanity of Vanities (1913), and Hebridean Symphony (1916).

Granville Bantock was a broad-minded and full-hearted character, genial, kindly, and generous to friends, seemingly almost childlike in his enthusiasms and unending curiosity; and though he recognised expediency and often a pragmatist, he was in many other ways an idealistic and radically nonconformist figure, especially when one considers the ...

Granville Bantock was intended by his parents for the Indian Civil Service but he suffered poor health and initially turned to chemical engineering. At the age of 20, when he began studying composers’ manuscripts, at South Kensington Museum Library, …

A straw poll amongst some musical friends (which will horrify members of the Bantock Society) tended to elicit the exclamation 'Granville Who?' A brief overview of the composer's achievement will not go amiss.

Jun 14, 2017 · The English composer, Granville Bantock, was originally intended for the Indian Civil Service. The son of a Scottish doctor, he turned to music relatively late in adolescence, entering the Royal Academy in 1889 after a period of Trinity College of Music.

Jun 30, 2020 · This volume is the first published study to bring together a variety of materials which represent the life and works of Sir Granville Bantock (1868-1946), British composer, arranger, editor, music department administrator, competitive singing promoter and adjudicator, world traveler, lover of life, literature and philosophy, radio talk ...

May 15, 2017 · WRTI’s Meridee Duddleston has more on Sir Granville Bantock (1868-1946)—a British composer, with a slew of compositions, who had a fervent love for cultures not his own; his fascination with an exotic East found an outlet in his music.

Sir Granville Bantock, (born August 7, 1868, London, England—died October 11, 1946, London), English composer known especially for his large-scale choral and orchestral works. After preparing for the Indian civil service, Bantock studied in London at Trinity College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music.

Dec 11, 2014 · Sir Granville Bantock was born in London on the 7th August 1868. His father was the prominent Scottish surgeon and gynaecologist Dr George Granville Bantock. George’s father worked for the 2nd Duke of Sutherland, as gamekeeper and then laird, a few years after the Highland Clearances attributed to the 1st Duke of Sutherland.