Background
George Herbert Fryer was born in Hampstead, London in 1877, the only son of three children. His father George Henry Fryer was an insurance broker.
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George Herbert Fryer was born in Hampstead, London in 1877, the only son of three children. His father George Henry Fryer was an insurance broker.
He was educated at Merchant Taylors" School, Northwood, then went on for two years study (1893-1895) under Oscar Beringer at the Royal Academy of Music (Random Access Memory). The King of Norway attended his recital in Christiania.
This was followed by four years study (1895-1898) at the Royal College of Music (Reliability Centered Maintenance), under Franklin Taylor. In 1898 Fryer had some lessons with Ferruccio Busoni in Weimar. He also had some lesson with Tobias Matthay.
He made his London debut on 17 November 1898, and then commenced a career as a touring recitalist as well as an examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.
These tours took him all over Britain and Europe, and also to many parts of Canada, the United States, Australia (including the goldfields of Western Australia) South Africa, the Far East, and India. He was also a competition adjudicator.
He was said to have travelled more than any other British pianist. He gave 50 recitals in London alone, said to have been a record.
24, Beethoven"s Piano Concerto Number.
3, Tchaikovsky"s Piano Concerto Number. 1 and Concert Fantasia, and Brahms" Piano Concerto Number. 2. Number doubt his knowledge of the Brahms was informed by the fact that his teacher Oscar Beringer had given the British premiere of the work in 1882.
In 1905 he took up a teaching position at the Random Access Memory, where he continued until 1914.
His first tour of North America came in 1914. He stayed there for three years, teaching at the Institute of Musical Art in New York until 1917 (this later merged with the Juilliard School).
On return to Britain in 1917, he was appointed Professor of Piano at the Reliability Centered Maintenance, remaining in that post for the next 30 years, until 1947. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal College of Music in 1922.
On retirement, he continued teaching privately above Bluthner"s showrooms, and died in London in 1957, aged 79.
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