The British Musical Biography

[E] Summers, James Lea, composer and
pianist, born at London, 1837. Sou of
William Summers, a musician. He was
blind from his birth, but became a pupil of
Miss Kate Loder and of (Sir) G. A. Macfarren.
He apiDeared as a pianist at the Crystal
Palace about 1850-60. Died at London,
July 8, 1881.

[W] Works. — Quintet for strings; Quartet in E
flat for strings; Quartet in A, pf. and strings;
Andante and rondo brillante, pf. ; Two
musical sketches, pf. ; Valses. etc., pf. An-
thems, duets, and songs.

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