James William Davison
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James William Davison was an English journalist, known as the music critic of The Times.
J W Davison – Pencil sketch of a daguerreotype, c. 1857
George Alexander Macfarren
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Sir George Alexander Macfarren was an English composer and musicologist.
James William Davison
…He was educated at University College School and the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied the pianoforte under W. H. Holmes and composition under George Alexander Macfarren. Originally with ambitions to be a composer, Davison became first a music teacher, and then in the 1830s a music writer and critic. In 1842 he was a…
George Alexander Macfarren
Walter Macfarren, his brother
Macfarren's house in Hamilton Terrace, St John's Wood
Plaque on the house