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Frederic Austin (30 March 187210 April 1952) was an English baritone singer, a musical teacher and composer in the period 1905–30. He is best remembered for his restoration and production of ''The Beggar's Opera'' by John Gay and Johann Christoph Pepusch, and its sequel, ''Polly'', in 1920–23. Austin was the older brother of the composer Ernest Austin (1874–1947). ==Training and early career== Born Frederick William Austin in Poplar, Middlesex on 30 March 1872 the son of William and Elizabeth Austin, his father was a shirt tailor.〔1881 Census of Fulham, RG11/55, Folio 85, Page 48, Frederick William Austin, aged 9, a Scholar, born Poplar, living at 15, Elm Grove, Hammersmith, London with parents William and Elizabeth Emily Austin, also listed five sibilings including Ernest John Austin aged 7.〕 Austin was sent at the age of about 12 to live at Birkenhead, where he received organ and music lessons, and had singing training from Charles Lunn. By 1896 he had obtained a B.Mus. from Durham University and was organist in several Birkenhead churches. He became a teacher of harmony, and later of composition, at Liverpool College of Music. At Liverpool he became close friends with the composer Cyril Scott, and through him was introduced to H. Balfour Gardiner, who became a lifelong friend. Through them he was received into the circle of young English composers known as the Frankfurt Group, and their friends. These included Scott, Gardiner, Norman O'Neill, Roger Quilter, Percy Grainger (owing to their training at the Hoch Conservatory) in Frankfurt and such friends as Benjamin Dale, Gervase Elwes, Eugène Goossens, ''fils'' and Arnold Bax. This group, in which Frederick Delius sometimes appeared, often performed each other's music in informal surroundings, and Austin in particular used to improvise at the piano with Arnold Bax. In August 1900 he completed his first orchestral work, the concert Overture ''Richard II'', which received its first performance on 12 December 1901 by the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra under Dan Godfrey.〔Source: original Concert Programme〕 In 1902, the year of his marriage to Amy Oliver, Austin gave lessons in composition to Thomas Beecham, sang Tchaikovsky's "Pilgrim's Song" for a Henry Wood promenade concert, and was introduced to Hans Richter, for whom he later sang in Beethoven's Choral Symphony and ''Missa solemnis'', and Bach's ''St Matthew Passion''. In 1904 he moved to Pinner, sang under Felix Weingartner and at Wagner nights at the Prom Concerts, and took the name role in Mendelssohn's ''Elijah'' at Gloucester in the Three Choirs Festival. In June 1905 he took part in Beecham's London debut at the Bechstein Hall, in the first London performance of Scott's ''Ballad of Fair Helen of Kilconnell'' (dedicated to him). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frederic Austin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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