Ernest Walker

Ernest Walker Sheet Music

  • Born: 15th July 1870
  • Died: 21st February 1949
  • Birthplace: India

Ernest Walker was an Indian-born English composer, pianist, organist, teacher and writer on music. Ernest Walker was born in Bombay, India, in 1870, where his father was a partner in a merchant firm. (his father had also had ambitions to be a writer, and even published two novels under the pseudonym "Powys Oswyn", but these plans were abandoned). Ernest came to England with his parents in 1871. From an early age he exhibited a mystic attraction to nature. He studied the piano with Ernst Pauer and harmony with Alfred Richter (a son of the cantor at St Thomas's Church, Leipzig).Through a mutual friend, he became friendly with Harold Bauer (then still only a violinist) and the two would often play duos together. He was educated at Oxford, becoming a Doctor of Music in 1898. There, his mystical bent was fostered and became more pronounced.

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