“Visitors unwelcome.”

Sign posted at the gate to his English home. The Concise Edition of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 8th ed. Revised by Nicolas Slonimsky. New York, Schirmer Books, 1993. ISBN 002872416X. p. 958.

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English composer, music critic, pianist and writer 1892–1988

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