Balfour gardiner biography

British conductor (1877-1950)

For the British essayist and sinologist, see Frederic H. Balfour.

Henry Balfour Gardiner (7 November 1877 – 28 June 1950) was a British musician, composer, and teacher.^[1] He was the son of Henry John Gardiner, a successful entrepreneur who made a considerable fortune in the drapery wholesale business in Bristol and London.^[2]

Education

He was born at 6, Orsett Terrace, Westbourne Grove, Paddington, London.^[2] He began to play the piano at the age of 5 and to compose at 9.^[3] Between his conventional education at Charterhouse School and New College, Oxford, where he obtained only a pass degree, Gardiner was a piano student at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, where he was taught by Iwan Knorr and Lazzaro Uzielli, who had been a pupil of Clara Schumann.

He belonged to the Frankfurt Group, a circle of composers who studied at the Hoch Conservatory in the late 1890s.^[4] With