Dunhill, Thomas (Frederick) (1877-1946)

English composer. He was assistant music master at Eton College 1899-1908, and organized concerts for chamber music and for the promotion of British music in London during the early years of the century. He entered the Royal College of Music, London, in 1893, where Charles Stanford was his composition master, and where he later became professor of composition.

Works Opera The Enchanted Garden (1928), Tantivy Towers (A P Herbert, 1931), Happy Families.

Ballet Dick Whittington, Gallimaufry.

Orchestral symphony in A minor, Elegiac Variations in memory of Parry and overture Maytime for orchestra; Triptych for viola and orchestra.

Chamber piano quartet, two piano trios, five quintets.