The British Musical Biography

[E] Legge, Robin Humphrey, writer on
music, and composer, born near Liverpool,
June 28, 1862. Of a Shropshire family, of
Bishop's Castle, he was intended for the Bar,
and entered at Trinity Hall, Cambridge ; but
giving that up for music, he went to Leijizig
in 1885, studying at the Conservatorium, and
privately, under Gustav Schreck, Paul Klen-
gel, Richard Hofmann, and others, and later,
at Frankfort, under Anton Urspruch. Re-
turning to England in 1890, he settled in
London, and devoted himself chiefly to musi-
cal literature, contributing articles to various
papers. "An appreciation of Smetana," which
appeared in the New Quarterly Musical Re-
view, seems to have had some influence.
While in Germany he wrote a great deal of
music, but his published works are few :
Two books of carols ; A set of five part-songs
(poems by Charles Kingsley) ; some pieces for
violin and pf., etc. His most important
works are : Articles in the Dictionary of
National Biography (from Vol. XXXV., G. A.
Macfarren) ; Translation of Wallaschek's "Die
Musik der Naturvolker (Primitive Music,
Longmans, 1893) ; Historv of the Norwich
Musical Festivals, 1824-1893 (with W. L.
Hansell), London, Jarrold, 1896.

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