Sydney Baynes (2 January 1879 – 9 March 1938) was an English conductor, composer and leader of one of the United Kingdom's most popular radio bands.
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accessed 20 November 2010 Born in Sudbury, Middlesex (nr. Wembley), he was educated at Hawley Crescent Primary School and Haverstock Hill School in Camden, Middlesex. He gained his first employment as an organist in London and was later the piano accompanist for singers such as
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[ He worked for the BBC for many years and formed and conducted his own orchestra between 1928 and 1938 which broadcast and recorded regularly. He died on 9 March 1938 at Willesden General Hospital, ]Willesden
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Works
His original compositions are largely in the light music genre. His most famous piece of work was the Destiny Waltz published in 1912, which sold over a million copies.Jeeves and Wooster
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, it was performed at the Totleigh-in-the-Wold village concert. ''Destiny'' was one of a series of generic waltzes based on one-word abstract noun
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s, such as "Ecstasy", "Frivolry", "Loyalty", "Mystery", "Victory" and "Witchery".[ His march "Off We Go" was used as the Radio Variety march. Other compositions included a ''Miniature Ballet Suite'', the overture ''Endure to Conquer'', first played at an Armistice Thanksgiving in ]Westminster Abbey
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His oeuvre also included a number of parlour songs, such as "First Love" and the "Garden of My Love", numerous piano solos and some church music. However, it was as an arranger that Baynes made his mark, including ''Fifty Years of Song'', ''The Gay Nineties'', ''Tipperaryland'' and the dances from Sheridan's ''The Duenna''.][
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External links
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Internet Movie Database Naxos Composer Page
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1879 births
English conductors (music)
British male conductors (music)
English composers
Light music composers
1938 deaths