Merrick, Frank (1886-1981)

English pianist and composer. He studied first with his parents and then with Leschetizky in Vienna, making his London debut in 1903. In 1910 he won a Rubinstein Prize in St Petersburg and from 1911 to 1929 taught at the Royal Manchester College of Music, after which he became professor at the Royal College of Music, London. In 1928 he won a prize offered by the Columbia Graphophone Company, for completing Schubert's ‘Unfinished’ Symphony.