Bryson, Robert Ernest b 30.3.1867 d 16.4.1942

Founder Chairman of the Rodewald Concert Society and later its President; organist at Christ Church  and St Saviour’s Church, Birkenhead; a cotton merchant by profession.

Grove 54 [birth details incorrect]; Taylor p 35; DMMM; DCO; BDO; BL

Musical Opinion 1923 pp 639 (April), 751-753 (May)

Obituary: The Lydney Observer 08.05.1942 [inaccurate]

Novello, Ewer & Co; Breitkopf & Härtel; E Donajowsky, London; J H Larway, London; Stainer & Bell; Goodwin & Tabb

Opera: The Leper’s Flute

Orchestral: 2 Symphonies, Study for orchestra Voices

Chamber music: 2 string quartets (Quartet in E performed by Catterall Quartet at RCS Concerts  in 1926 and 1927), trio for violin, piano & harmonium

Piano: Through the Little Meadows (performed by the dedicatee, Frederic Brandon, at an RCS Concert in 1912)

Mainly songs and organ music