The British Musical Biography

[E] Rowbotham, John Frederick, author
and composer, born in Edinburgh, April 18,
1854. Only son of the late Rev. Frederick
Rowbotham, Incumbent of St. James's, Edin-
burgh. Educated at Edinburgh Academy,
and Rossall School. Proceeding to Oxford, he
gained the Balliol Scholarship when eighteen,
and also took a first class in classics, and the
Taylorian Scholarship for Italian. Travelled
on the continent to collect materials for his
History of Music. Studied music while at
Oxford, and afterwards at Berlin, at the
Stern Conservatorium for three years, with
further study at Paris, Dresden, and Vienna.
He has composed a Mass for double-chorus
and orchestra ; three songs to words by Alfred
Musset ; songs, various, etc. Author of "A
History of Music," 3 vols. London, Triibner,
1885-7; "How to write Music correctlv."
London, Upcott Gill, 1889; "Private Life" of
Great Composers," Isbister, 1892; "The
Troubadours, and the Courts of Love," Swan
Sonnenschein, 1895. Contributed the musical
articles to Chambers's Encyclopeedia, and
many papers to the Nineteenth Century,
National Revieiu, BlachiooocV s Magazine, and
others, and also to the musical press. Author
of poetical works, " The Death of Roland,"
1886; and "The Human Einc," 1890, both
published by Triibner.

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