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Frank D. Byng: Harlequinade, Op.61

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2016 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays a lively piece from 1919 by the Irish-born composer Frank D. Byng (1867-1939).
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Alas, I know very little about the composer of this piece, except that his full name was Francis D. Bulkley-Byng, and that he was born in Dublin, Ireland.  He was living in Honor Oak Park, London in 1901 (he subsequently moved to Herne Bay in Kent, where he died).  I also know that he was apparently a music director at the Strand Theatre, and that he was a pioneer in arranging music for silent movies (as early as 1901), and that he published some books of piano pieces suitable for the purpose in the early 1910s.  I believe he may have worked with a brother, David George Bulkley-Byng, who was a violinist at the Alhambra Theatre in Leicester Square, London.  This piece must have had some popularity, as it was issued in an orchestral arrangement in 1928.

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