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FREDERIC HYMEN COWEN

29st January 1852   ---   6th October 1935

Frederic Hymen Cowen was born at Kingston, Jamaica in Jan 1852. At the age of four he was brought to England, where his father became
treasurer to the Opera at Her Majesty's theatre and private secretary to the earl of Dudley.  Cowen first teacher was Henry Russell,  and he
first published composition appeared when he was but six years old.

He studied the piano with Benedict and composition with Goss in 1865 he was at Leipzig under Hauptmann, Moscheles, Reinecke an Plaidy.
Returning home on the  out-break of the Austro-Prussian War,   he had an overture played at the  Promenade Concerts at Covent Garden in
September 1866.

In the following  autumn he went to Berlin,  where he was under Kiel,  at Atern's conservatorium.   A symphony and a piano  concerto were
given in St James Hall in 1869, and thenceforward his claims as a composer were generally recognized. His cantata The Rose Maiden, which
enjoyed great popularity in his day, was given in London in 1870, his second symphony was played at the Liverpool Philharmonic Society in
1872, and his first festival work The Corsair, in 1876 at Birmingham.

In that same year 1896 his opera Pauline, was premiered by Carl Rosa Company, but with only moderate success. In 1884 he conducted five
concerts of the Philharmonic Society, and in 1888, on the resignation of Sir Arthur Sullivan, he became till 1892, the regular conductor of the
society this being one of many posts which he subsequently occupied, He received a knighthood in 1911.

Cowen died in London on 6 October 1935.

Copyright 1953 Encyclopaedia Britannica

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