The British Musical Biography

[E] Barnett, Neville George, organist and
musical critic, born in London, March 3,
1854. Pupil of R. Limpus, E. J. Hopkins,
and E. H. Turpin. F.R.O.O., 1873. Ap-
pointed organist and choirmaster St. Philip's
Arlington Square, in 1872. Subsequently, he
went to New Zealand, where he held several
appointments, but he finally settled in Sydney,
New South Wales. He was organist of St.
Mary's Cathedral (Roman Catholic) ; Musical
Director at the Jewish Synagogue, and in-
structor at the Blind Institution. For blind
students he invented a type-writer, enabling
them to write according to the Braille system.
When he went to Sydney he was appointed
musical critic of the Sydney Morning Herald,
then of the Evening News, and lastly, of the
Sydney Daily Telegraph. He composed an
Opera, " Pomare," on a Tahitan legend, which
was performed at Auckland ; a Mass, organ
pieces, part-songs, etc. He also wrote some
treatises on music, his last work, " The Art
Theory of Harmony (dedicated to Sir George
Grove), is still in MS. He died at Picton,
N.S.W., September 26, 1895.

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