Marmaduke Barton
ABOUT MARMADUKE BARTON
Musician and educator who taught for nearly 50 years at the Royal College of Music.
He was part of the first student-performed concert at the Royal College of Music, opening with Chopin's Ballade No. 3 in A-flat.
He and Scottish romantic composer Hamish MacCunn were close friends, and he took two of MacCunn's orchestral compositions and arranged them for piano duets.
His father, the Rev. Samuel Saxon Barton, was a United Methodist Free Church minister.
He was taught by Bernhard Stavenhagen, Franz Liszt 's pupil, while in Weimar on a traveling scholarship.
