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Frank D. Byng: Sérénade lointaine, Op.65

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2016 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays an impassioned 'serenade from a distance' 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).  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 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. I guess that the title of this piece represents a lover serenading his beloved from afar.

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