Marmaduke Barton

About

Musician and educator who taught for nearly 50 years at the Royal College of Music.

Before Fame

He was part of the first student-performed concert at the Royal College of Music, opening with Chopin's Ballade No. 3 in A-flat.

Trivia

He and Scottish romantic composer Hamish MacCunn were close friends, and he took two of MacCunn's orchestral compositions and arranged them for piano duets.

Family Life

His father, the Rev. Samuel Saxon Barton, was a United Methodist Free Church minister.

Associated With

He was taught by Bernhard Stavenhagen, Franz Liszt's pupil, while in Weimar on a traveling scholarship.