Charles Swinnerton Heap
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Charles Swinnerton Heap was an English organist, pianist, composer and conductor.
Charles Swinnerton Heap c. 1893
The Birmingham Triennial Musical Festival, in Birmingham, England, founded in 1784, was the longest-running classical music festival of its kind. It last took place in 1912.
Charles Swinnerton Heap
…educated at the town's King Edward VI School, where he studied the organ under Walter Brooks. At the age of 11 he performed as a boy soprano at the 1858 Birmingham Festival, the first conducted by William Stockley. In 1862 he went to study under Dr. Edwin George Monk at York Minster. In 1865 he won the Mendelssohn Scholarship…
Birmingham Triennial Music Festival, Town Hall 1845
The Theatre Royal Birmingham in 1780
Birmingham Town Hall
Mendelssohn's 1840 sketch, showing scenes from Birmingham, including the Town Hall (top centre), and Dover