S.H. Braithwaite: Musical Box

Phillip Sear plays the first of a 1923 set of 3 ’Morceaux de genre’ by the British composer and artist Sam Hartley Braithwaite (1883-1947). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This upload was recorded two days after the 75th anniversary of the death of Braithwaite’s death. I doubt if many people noticed the anniversary 🤔. Braithwaite was born in Cumberland, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied clarinet, organ and piano - as well as composition (with Frederick Corder). One of his friends and contemporaries at the RAM was Arnold Bax, who dedicated his 1915 piece ’Apple Blossom Time’ to Braithwaite. Braithwaite moved to Bournemouth after the First World War, and taught at a music school there. While in Bournemouth he took up etching, painting and printmaking, and towards the end of his life moved to Westmoreland, in the Lake District area in which he had been born - although he spent the Secon