By

ALBERT WILLIAM KETELBEY

9th August 1875   ---   26th November 1959

For a full Bio on Albert William Ketelbey please visit This website. Below is just a brief Bio.

Ketelbey was born in Birmingham in 1875, when he was 14 he went to study at Trinity College of Music in London, were he excelled at classical
music but decided against becoming a classical composer and instead he decided to become a musical director of the Vaudeville Theatre, it was
there he gained fame as composer of light music and often conducted most of his own works.

Ketelbey would spend a number of years of  turning orchestral music and transcribeing it for the solo piano,   for publisher's like Chappell & Co,
and at  the time a small firm Hammond.   It was during this time  he gained his skills at  composing for large scale works as well  as many of his
famous piano pieces, and in the early 1900's worked with Columbia Graphophone Company, making arrangements for smaller orchestra's

It was at this period he began to compose some of his most popular works, and in the the 1910's he found great success writing music for silent
films, until the late 1920's, I think he produced some music for the early talkies.

Ketelbey had by the end of the 1920's become known as the Greatest british living composer of his time and was one of his most famous piece of
music was In a Monastery Garden (1915), which reach over a million copy's sold.

Ketelbey sadly died at home in obscurity, in the Isle of Wight, in November 1959.

Last Updated on 2023
By Steven

And now for the Music

New (3993)"In a Persiam Market, Intermezzo Scene". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

New (3992)"Various Piano pieces from Ketelbey works". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(3587)"Wedgewood Blue Dance". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

Thanks to Eric Halstead for the music below.

(3586)"Bells across the Meadows". Sequenced by Eric Halstead.

(3584)"Sanctuary Of The Heart:". Sequencer Unknown.

(3587)"In a Monastery Gardens". Sequencer Unknown.

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