Archibald Martin Henderson

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Life

Born: 1879

Died: 1957

Biography

Scottish pianist and organist. Henderson was organist and choirmaster at the University of Glasgow. He studied the organ with Widor and the piano with Scharwenka, Pugno and Cortot. Henderson was keen to make available music he thought unjustly neglected in practical editions. As he states in his Foreword ‘Although Purcell is generally regarded as the greatest of English composers…his keyboard music and many fine pieces for strings are still far too little known and played.’ He makes no bones about this not being a scholarly edition, ‘This edition being intended entirely for practical purposes, and not simply as an historical document, the pieces have been carefully revised, edited, and fingered. Only in this way, I felt, could the book be of real value to both teacher and pupil…It will interest and encourage young students especially, to know that the pieces in this book have already been seen, appreciated, and played by such distinguished artists as Cortot, Marcel Dupré, Medtner and Rachmaninoff.

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