Record ID:
53213049 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1890117
  • London
Death:
  • 19190405
Occupations:
  • Composer Arranger Bandmaster Educator Editor
Notes:
  • Oxford music online, viewed 7 August 2014 (Charles Godfrey (b London, 17 Jan 1839; d London, 5 April 1919). Son of Charles Godfrey [1790-1863]. He studied under Macfarren and Lazarus at the RAM and played in Jullien’s orchestra, with which he went on tour. In 1859 he joined the Scots Fusiliers as bandmaster, leaving for a similar post with the Royal Horse Guards (1868–1904), in which he was commissioned Lieutenant (1899). He was professor of military music at the GSM and for 16 years adjudicated at the Belle Vue band contests in Manchester. His numerous compositions and arrangements are well known; he edited the Army Military Band Journal and founded the Orpheus Band Journal.) http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/11340pg4
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)900779
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda
Authentication code:
  • anuc