Haydon Hare

Haydon William Hare FRCO (2 July 1869 – 22 April 1944) was a composer and organist based in Great Yarmouth.

Life

He was born in Stamford in Lincolnshire, the first child of Thomas and Mary Ann Hare. He was educated at King's School, Peterborough, and was a chorister in Peterborough Cathedral. He was an articled pupil to Dr. Haydn Keeton.[1]

He was chorus master of the Norwich Musical Festival from 1908 to 1930, and conductor of the Yarmouth Musical Society from 1895 to 1939.

He was the organist in an early Henry Wood Promenade concert, when on 16 September 1909 he performed the Alexandre Guilmant Symphony Number 1 with the New Queen's Hall Orchestra under Henry Wood.

He married Amy Elizabeth Humphreys in August 1898 in St. Mary's Church, Wainfleet, Lincolnshire.[2] He died on 22 April 1944 in Great Yarmouth, and his wife died in 1964 - also in Great Yarmouth.

Appointments

Compositions

He was a composer of:

  • part songs[4]
  • a cantata, O God our help
Cultural offices
Preceded by
Henry Stonex		 Organist of St Nicholas Church, Great Yarmouth
1895–1944		 Succeeded by
Richard Humphrey
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References
  1. Stamford Mercury - Friday 16 September 1887
  2. Stamford Mercury - Friday 19 August 1898
  3. Lichfield Mercury, Friday 10 May 1907
  4. Dictionary of Organs and Organists, 1912



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