The British Musical Biography

[E] Midgley, Samuel, pianist, born at Bier-
ley, near Bradford, Yorkshire, December 22,
1849. His father played the violin, and was
sometime choirmaster at Bethel Chapel, Bier-
ley. The son had his first organ appointment
at this chapel, and held the like at Salem
Chapel, and Tong Street Church. He studied
for a time under James Broughton, and
afterwards proceeded to Leipzig, where he
studied under Reinecke, Papperitz, Oscar
Paul, and others. At the public examination,
Easter, 1874, he distinguished himself in the
performance of Bennett's F minor Concerto.
On his return he settled at Bradford, and gave
his first chamber concert, September 23, 1874.
He has given annual series of these ever since,
and brought forward many important works
by Party, Stanford, Mackenzie, Prout, Ashton,
and others, besides compositions of Bemiett,
Westrop, etc. He is conductor of Cleckheaton

[+] Philharmonic Society ; pianist at the Ilkley
subscription concerts ; and accompanist at
the Bradford subscription concerts, and writer
of the analytical programmes for the same.
Examiner for the Incorporated Society of
Musicians ; and local representative, R.A.M.,
and R.C.M. In 1888 he married Henrietta
ToMLiNSON, a soprano vocalist, who has sung
in oratorio and ballad concerts throughout
Yorkshire and adjoining counties, and has
also been heard in London, with her sister,
Marion Tomlinson, an excellent contralto.

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