The British Musical Biography

[E] Miller, George John, bandmaster and
composer, born at Pimlico, London, Novem-
ber 26, 1853. He comes of a military family,
his grandfather fought at Salamanca, and his
father was bandmaster of the 03rd (Manches-
ter) Regiment. In this corps young Miller
began his musical career. He afterwards be-
came assistant in Alfred Mai:)leson's Music
Library, and then enlisting in the 16th Regi-
ment, he was sent to Kneller Hall to study.

[+] While there he trained the choir at St. Ste-
phen'.s Mission Cliurch, Houuslow, and was
organist at Wliitton Parish Cliurch. In 1875
he was appointed bandmaster of the IGtli
(Bedfordshire) Regiment, and went to India.
Returning, he was made bandmaster and
organist of the Royal Military College, Sand-
hurst, 1880 ; and in 1884 became bandmaster
of the Portsmouth Division, Royal Mariues,
L.R.A.M., 1882; Mus. Bac, Cambridge, 1892.
His band is famed all over the Empire, a; d
he frequently has to conduct at Osborne, etc.
He also conducts an amateur operatic bociety,
and the Minnesingers glee club. His compo-
sitions comprise a cantata, The Armada ; con-
cert overture, Evangeline ; Nautical fantasia,
and many original pieces and arrangements
for military and string bands ; an operetta,
etc. He also composed the funeral march for
the obsequies of Prince Henry of Battenberg,
1896. Editor (with Franc^ois Cellier) of The
Soldier's Song Book, London, Clowes, 1897.

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