Pianophilia

John Williams Harmston (1822-1881), pupil of William Sterndale Bennett.
op.042 La Rose
and
op.046 Je pense a toi
Both published by Niemeyer, Hamburg, 1862.

Alexander S. Beaumont (1848-1913)
Suite pour piano Cinq Portraits de Femmes, opus 6.
Published by Augener, London, n.d. (c. 1870-1880); btw. beautiful edition in 600 dpi.

The name Beaumont sounds French, but so far as I known Beaumont was a british Army Captain. More important as his compositions was his work as a patron of arts. He published sometimes under the pseudonym Charles Woolhouse.
IMSLP hosted a String Quintet by him.

The other work is a not really fascinating piece titled Fascination, composed by a certain J. C. Beaumont.
The title page provided the important fact that he is a Professor of Music in Berry Brown near Huddersfield.
Concerning to wiki the village has a Victorian infants' and nursery school ...

Best wishes to all of you in this 2017!

More info about Bonser:

ARTHUR HOWARD BONSER, Forest Lodge, Sutton-in-Ashfield; son of the late William Bonser; born at Sutton-in-Ashfield, April 14th, 1855; educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Mansfield; Associate of the Royal College of Organists. Organist and choirmaster of St. Peter's Parish Church, Mansfield; member of Sutton-in-Ashfield Urban Council for the past eighteen years (twice its Chairman); Vice-Chairman of Mansfield Board of Guardians for the eleventh year, having been on the Board fifteen years; member of the Nottinghamshire County Council (Sutton-in-Ashfield, West Ward) for ten years past; Secretary of the Ashfield Lodge, No. 2412, Freemasons; a Past Master and Past Provincial Grand Junior Warden of Nottinghamshire; Representative Governor of Brunt's Technical Schools, Mansfield, upon nomination of the County Council; a Manager of the Sutton-in-Ashfield National Schools. Married Alice, daughter of the late Samuel Sims, of Holloway, Derbyshire.

http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/monograp ... /music.htm

Timtin wrote:Finding out any information about Harold Wallis is not easy!

All I know is that he was active soon after WW1 and wrote 'Evening Sketches'
and 'Lyric Fancies', both for piano, as well as this work:-

Wallis Visions Op16.pdf

Hello I made a small recording or the piece
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=252&p=33277#p33277

The incidental music to the children's play Where The Rainbow Ends,
written in 1911, was one of Roger Quilter's most popular works.

Hi HTIEKFR, I'm really pleased that my scan resulted in you
producing a YouTube video of the Wallis work.

Generally speaking, I get very little feedback on my efforts
to make the backwaters of the British piano literature
available, so a positive response such as yours is much
appreciated. Having said that, I'd not be too keen on an
automatic thank-youer.

Timtin wrote:Hi HTIEKFR, I'm really pleased that my scan resulted in you
producing a YouTube video of the Wallis work.

Generally speaking, I get very little feedback on my efforts
to make the backwaters of the British piano literature
available, so a positive response such as yours is much
appreciated. Having said that, I'd not be too keen on an
automatic thank-youer.

Dear Timtin,

thank you for the Quilter. It looks quite nice.
Do you know of any song transcriptions?
As far as I know, Q. was most famous for his songs - are there any recordings around?

all best
alfor

Years ago I posted his piano pieces op. 16.

Hi Alfor, thank you for your message.

Unfortunately, I don't have (or am aware of the existence of)
any Quilter song transcriptions, but I'll certainly keep a
look-out for any.

As regards recordings, I save money nowadays by making
CDs obtained from YouTube recordings, of which there seem
to be quite a few available of Quilter's sets of songs.

Poor chap didn't seem to have had a very happy life. This seems
to have been partly based on his sexuality. By chance, I
spotted a book of piano exercises a few years back in a
charity shop which he had signed. I bought it for that reason
alone!

You will find three Quilter song transcriptions in the Stephen Hough Album,
the songs he has transcribed are:

The Fuchsia Tree, an extremely beautiful transcription
Now sleeps the Crimson Petal, also very well done
Weep you no More, which will test your technique

regards
Brian

Thank you Brian for the info. I've put them on my
shopping list. Doubtless they are in mega-copyright.
The other Hough arrangements I've got seem very good.