William Y. Hurlstone - Piano Trio in G major (1905)

William Yeates Hurlstone (7 January 1876 – 30 May 1906) was an English composer. During the 1890s the Royal College of Music’s first Professor of Composition, Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924), had a stellar roster of students that included Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; but Stanford considered William Yeates Hurlstone (1876–1906) to have been his best pupil. Hurlstone’s name is now largely forgotten; his promising career was cut short by bronchial asthma when he was 30.

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Piano Trio in G major (1905)
Dedication: to my friend Alex S. Beaumont

I. Allegro moderato (0:00)
II. Andante (9:52)
III. Molto vivace (16:51)
IV. Allegro comodo (22:48)

Ensemble: Trio Anima Mundi

Piano: Kenji Fujimura
Violin: Rochelle Ughetti
Cello: Miranda Brockman

After completing his studies Hurlstone settled in South Norwood to be near his family and worked as a piano teacher and choir master to help the family finances. He also taught at the Croydon Conservatoire. He retained links with Croydon for the rest of his life despite moving to Battersea to be nearer his work. The family suffered financial difficulties after their father, Martin, caught smallpox from one of his patients and went blind. He was obliged to give up his work and died shortly after in 1892. William was 16 years old. A musician friend of the family, named Beaumont, became their benefactor and saved them from penury.

In 1904 he was highly commended for Variations on a Swedish Air, performed at the first Patrons' Concert. In 1905 he won first prize in the Cobbett competition for a single-movement String Quartet. One of his former teachers, Walford Davies, appointed him accompanist to the Bach Choir. In 1906, Hurlstone returned to the college as one of the youngest appointmentees as Professor of Counterpoint, but died later that year of bronchial asthma, from which he had suffered all his life.

He is buried in Croydon Cemetery with members of his family. The monument over William's grave was designed as a broken column to signify that he had died before reaching his peak. A street in South Norwood was named after Hurlstone; his mother had lived in Selhurst Road nearby as did his musician friend, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

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