Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie KCVO was a Scottish composer, conductor and teacher best known for his oratorios, violin and piano pieces, Scottish folk music and works for the stage.
Alexander Mackenzie, 1898
Mackenzie, aged 12. In 1927 he said, "If I could only finish my career with a head of hair like that, I should die happy."
Mackenzie by "Spy"
Mackenzie (front c.), in 1910 with Parry (back l.), Stanford (front r.), Edward German (back r.) and Dan Godfrey
Hubert Parry
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Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet, was an English composer, teacher and historian of music. Born in Richmond Hill, Bournemouth, Parry's first major works appeared in 1880. As a composer h
Alexander Mackenzie (composer)
…producing over 90 compositions, but from 1888 to 1924, he devoted a great part of his energies to running the Royal Academy of Music. Together with Hubert Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford, he was regarded as one of the fathers of the British musical renaissance in the late nineteenth century. Mackenzie was…
Hubert Parry in The Musical Quarterly, c. 1916
A blue plaque marking Parry's birthplace at 2 Richmond Terrace, Bournemouth
Highnam Court, Gloucestershire, the family's country house