O'Neill, Norman (1875-1934)

Anglo-Irish composer and conductor. He was great-grandson of Callcott. He studied with Somervell in London and with Knorr at the Hoch Conservatory at Frankfurt. In 1899 he married the French pianist Adine Rückert and in 1908 became conductor at the Haymarket Theatre, London, for which he wrote much incidental music. In 1919 he became treasurer of the Royal Philharmonic Society and in 1924 professor at the Royal Academy of Music, London.

Works Stage works incidental music for Shakespeare's Hamlet (1904), Henry V, Julius Caesar (1920), King Lear (1909), Macbeth, Measure for Measure, and The Merchant of Venice (1922), Maeterlinck's Blue Bird, Barrie's Mary Rose and A Kiss for Cinderella, Ibsen's Pretenders (1913), Stephen Phillips's The Lost Heir; dramatic adaptations of Dickens's Pickwick and Scott's Bride of Lammermoor; ballet Swinburne Ballet and Punch and Judy.

Instrumental concert overtures, variations, Miniatures and other works for orchestra; choral works; piano quintet, two piano trios (1895, 1900); Variations and Fugue on an Irish Air for two pianos; piano pieces.

Vocal many songs.