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EDWARD GEOFFREY TOYE

17th February 1889   ---   11th June 1942

For a full Bio on Edward Geoffrey Toye please visit This website. Below is just a brief Bio.

Geoffrey Toye, was an English conductor, composer and opera producer, he became the musical director of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1919
and is also well known for his association with Sadler's Wells Theatre.  Toye was born in Winchester,  Hampshire,  he's the younger son of Arlingham
James Toye,  who was a housemaster at Winchester College,  and for many years ran a music society in the school,  and were Toye gained his love of
music. He had brother Francis Toye was also a composer and musician.

Toye went to studied at the Royal College of Music, and in 1913 he began to conduct in various London theatres. When the first World War started he
joined the Army in 1914, and reached the rank of Major, after the war he became the conductor of the Beecham Opera Company. Toye composed two
ballets Douanes (1932),which was based on a comedy set in a customs post,  he composed the ballet,  The Haunted Ballroom,  (1934) which portrays
the Masters of Treginnis,  cursed to dance themselves to death in a gloomy ancestral ballroom,  (I have sequenced a small piece from the ballet down
below).

Toye became a governor of Sadler's  Wells Opera in 1931 and managed  the Opera there until 1934,  when he became managing director of the Royal
Opera, Covent Garden (1934-36). Toye worked for the BBC in 1940 in a non-musical role. He died, in 1942 at the age of 53

Toye was a composer of some distinction. His compositions included several books of songs, a symphony, and two ballets.

Last Updated on 2022
By Steven

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New (3748)"The Haunted Ballroom, (concert Waltz)". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

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