Gardiner, H(enry) Balfour (1877-1950)

English composer. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Oxford, and studied music under Iwan Knorr at Frankfurt. He became music master at Winchester College for a short time, then devoted himself to composition. He financed and conducted series of concerts at Queen's Hall, London, 1912-13, including early performances of works by British contemporaries, including the first performance of Gustav Holst's The Planets.

Works Chorus and orchestra News from Wydah (Masefield; 1912).

Orchestral symphony in D, English Dance, Fantasy and Shepherd Fennel's Dance (after Hardy; 1910) for orchestra.

Chamber string quartet, string quintet (1905), and other chamber music.

Other Noel, five pieces for piano; part songs.