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George English (tenor)
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George Philip John Engisch[1] (1882[2]–1972[2]), later English, was an Australian tenor soloist,[3] composer[1] and conductor.[1] His two symphonies of the early 1930s (No. 1 of 1932 and No. 2 of 1933) represent the late-Romantic style just like the better-known late symphonies by Alfred Hill.[2]
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English was born in Sydney[3][4] but later resided in Melbourne.[4] He moved to Brisbane in the 1940s and established the Brisbane Opera Guild.[2]
He sang in J.S. Bach's St Matthew Passion and Christmas oratorios.[3] In the late 1910s he sung the tenor parts in Hector Berlioz's La damnation de Faust with the Sydney Philharmonic.[3] By 1920 he was tenor soloist at St. Paul's Cathedral in Melbourne.[3]
In May 1920 he participated in the Beethoven Festival organized by the New South Wales Conservatorium being the soloist in Beethoven's Missa solemnis (on 15 May).[3]
He married Marjorie Blanche, née Hodgson.[1] They had a son, George Selwyn English, who also became a composer. The pair divorced in 1929, which resulted in financial difficulties.[1][5]
In 1935 the University of Melbourne decided to establish a Bach Society under the direction of Professor Bernard Heinze and the conductorship of George English.[6]
[5][self-published source] On 10 May 1939 he was before the bankruptcy court in Melbourne. In June he was transferred by the ABC to Sydney.[5]
In 1942 he was appointed conductor of the Queensland State and Municipal Choir (in succession to E.R.B. Jordan).[4] The first rehearsal took place at the beginning of August.[4]
George English was Conductor of the Heidelberg District Musical Society from 1924 to 1926.[7] He also conducted the Victorian Postal Institute Choir.