William Baines ‒ The Naiad

William Baines (1899 - 1922), "The Naiad" from Three Concert Studies (1919–20)

Performed by Eric Parkin

Born at Horbury in the West Riding of Yorkshire on 26th March 1899, Baines showed early promise both as composer and performer. He received a thorough grounding in technique from Albert Jowett of Leeds, but family means precluded advanced tuition and by 1916 he was earning a living, like his father, as a cinema pianist. His health was never strong, and of seventeen weeks' military service during the influenza epidemic in 1918 all but two were spent in hospital. From this blow he never fully recovered, and a particularly severe bout just before his 21st birthday proved crucial at the very moment he seemed poised on the threshold of a brilliant career, frustrating his efforts to capitalize on the successful publication of Paradise Gardens and the Seven Preludes which had even attracted attention in the popular press.

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