Walter Braithwaite

1906 (age 85)

Gloucester, Canada

Here he composed songs for school plays and festivals, taught music and piano, and accompanied eurythmy lessons. Works include a Sonata for Violin & Piano. Incidental Music for a production of The Merchant of Venice. Music for the Acting of Consecration for Piano or Strings, and many other short pieces and songs, arrangements of carols and folk-songs. He also wrote about music theory, teaching and improvisation. Foreign much of his life Braithwaite lived with his family at 51 Corser Street, Stourbridge. The house, on the corner of Corser Street and Farlands Road, can be seen on Google Street View. Instruments he owned here included two upright pianos (one of them hand-painted red and blue), a harmonium, and two square pianos, one of which he converted into a clavichord. He died in Clent on 18 August 1991. In 1970 he published his first Book of Songs, with a foreword written by Yehudi Menuhin. The second Book of Songs appeared in 1978, and a second edition of the first book came out in 1984 to raise money for the new Christian Community chapel in Baylie Street, Stourbridge. Two of the songs in the first book, "Ut queant laxis" and "The Spring by the Wayside (Bare is the Rock)", are still regularly sung at Elmfield School assemblies.

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Background

He was born in Gloucester on 24 August 1906, the third of five children born to Review Herbert Morris Braithwaite (Rector of Street Michael"s, Gloucester) and Julia Mary née Young (daughter of Richard Young, bishop of Athabasca).

Career

Here he composed songs for school plays and festivals, taught music and piano, and accompanied eurythmy lessons. Works include a Sonata for Violin & Piano. Incidental Music for a production of The Merchant of Venice.

Music for the Acting of Consecration for Piano or Strings, and many other short pieces and songs, arrangements of carols and folk-songs.

He also wrote about music theory, teaching and improvisation. Foreign much of his life Braithwaite lived with his family at 51 Corser Street, Stourbridge.

The house, on the corner of Corser Street and Farlands Road, can be seen on Google Street View. Instruments he owned here included two upright pianos (one of them hand-painted red and blue), a harmonium, and two square pianos, one of which he converted into a clavichord.

He died in Clent on 18 August 1991.

In 1970 he published his first Book of Songs, with a foreword written by Yehudi Menuhin. The second Book of Songs appeared in 1978, and a second edition of the first book came out in 1984 to raise money for the new Christian Community chapel in Baylie Street, Stourbridge. Two of the songs in the first book, "Ut queant laxis" and "The Spring by the Wayside (Bare is the Rock)", are still regularly sung at Elmfield School assemblies.

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