The British Musical Biography

[E] Bedford, Herbert, composer, born in Lon-
don, 1807, Musically educated at the Guild-
hall School of Music, where he was twice
awarded the annual prize for composition.
First came prominently into notice by a con-
cert of his works at the Meistersinger's Club,
May 30, 1892. His principal compositions
are " La Belle Dame sans merci " (Keats),
and " La Joie fait peur," for voice and orch-
estra ; an opera, " Kit Marlowe," not yet pro-
duced ; an Ave Maria, for contralto solo, con-
tralto chorus, violoncello, pf., harp, and organ;
a groujD of French songs ; an Album of Eng-
lish songs (including a setting of Shelley's Ode
to Music), etc. In 1894 he married Miss Liza
Lehmann, the vocalist and composer (q.v.)

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