Granville Bantock
Sir Granville Bantock
(1868 - 1946) is a late English romantic composer. He was trained for the Indian Civil
Service, then as a chemical engineer, before studying music at the Royal Academy
of Music in London in 1899.
Most of his music was written on a very large
scale, for huge orchestra, following the traditions of Wagner and Richard
Strauss in Germany. This type of music fell out of favour by 1920, partly
because of the practical lack of large orchestras after the war. So he did write
a few small-scale works, and his Hebrew Melody 'Hamabdil' is an example of
these.