Background
His father was a cinema pianist and organist at a Primitive Methodist Chapel.
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His father was a cinema pianist and organist at a Primitive Methodist Chapel.
In 1913 the family moved to Cleckheaton and whilst there Baines attended Bradford Permanent Orchestral Society concerts and acquainted himself with the basic orchestral repertoire.
Born in Horbury near Wakefield, Yorkshire, Baines came from a musical family. The family moved to York in 1917 where, aged 18, Baines became a professional musician and gave his first public piano recital at which a number of his original compositions were heard. He wrote a symphony which was not performed until 1991.
In 1918 Baines was conscripted into the British Army during the last months of World War I. Within a fortnight of being called up, he was hospitalised due to septic poisoning, and the war was over by the time he was discharged and his health, already delicate, never fully recovered.
He continued to compose and give recitals until a few months before his death, although his only major recital outside Yorkshire was in Bournemouth at the invitation of the conductor Sir Dan Godfrey in 1921.
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